Medieval towns and villages

This topic I deliver over two lessons. The first lesson focuses on the features of a medieval village. Students are to study an image and look for specific features from the list on the PPT slide. They will then study the poem of Dunstan and they feedback on what they think about life in a medieval village. to end lesson 1, students are to find their match of a job and its description - this can be tricky so you can give them clues if you feel it would suit your class.

The second lesson looks at sources from the time period and complete a Venn diagram comparing life then to life today in a modern town. As a plenary from the task, students are to pick something that happens in the towns, e.g. selling goods, slipping on mud, herding sheep, building, throwing out dirty water, and freeze-in that position. As a class they will try and guess what it is - great way to end the topic and kids really enjoy it