The Crusades: Why did people go on crusade?

Key Stage 3 lesson on the crusades. The lesson is at least an hour long and can easily be two lessons.

We start with retrieval practice starter. We then go on to introduce the concept of a crusade. We then examine Pope Urban’s famous sermon looking for threats to christians and potential rewards. We then introduce King Richard I before a classification task on the reasons why people went on crusade. The pupils classify the reasons in either money and power or religious reasons. The pupils then rank the reasons to work out what the main appeal of the crusades were. We then finish with a writing task where the pupils create a diary entry having been invited to join Richard’s crusade. Included is:

Retrieval practice starter
Source analysis task on Urban’s sermon of 1095
Classification task "For God or Gold"
Extended writing task using a diary entry narrative.
Post-it note plenary.

Hope this helps.

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