Crusades - Why did people go on a Medieval Crusade?

**This resource pack contains plenty of activities and tasks which will allow students to learn and explain why so many people decided to go on a crusade during the middle ages. **

In this pack you get:

• 1 x Worksheet - Students categorise the various reasons why people went on the pilgrimate using a key
• 1 x Worksheet - Students write up an extended answer to the question @Explain two reasons why people went on a crusade’. Sentence starters and structure given.

- 1 x Main Power Point
Slide 1: Title slide - Explain why people went on a Crusade
Slide 2: Animated, illustrated and engaging background information about the background to the Crusades
Slide 3: Animated, illustrated and engaging background information about the causes of the crusades
Slide 4: Animated, illustrated and engaging background information about the role played by Pope Urban II
Slide 5: Starter Task - Which route would the students take to reach Jerusalem?
Slide 6: Introduction to the question - why did people decided to go on a crusade
Slide 7: Outline to the main task of categorising the reasons
Slide 8: Introduction to the main question and the use of the PEEL structure for historical extended writing
Slide 9: PEEL structure outline for a class model answer
Slide 10: An alternative poster task outline
Slides 11-13: Recapping key words about the crusades with answers revealed and a print out version

All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.

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