The Peasants' Revolt

This is a fully resourced lesson that explores the fascinating events of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. The lesson should take two hours to teach and is differentiated with lots of opportunities for challenge.

Through a range of imaginative activities, students will examine three objectives.

First they will explore the causes of the Revolt by working out how the causes were like a bonfire (this will require some prior knowledge of how hard peasants’ lives were and also of the Black Death - this could be found in my lesson on the medieval village and Black Death which are also published on TES).

Secondly students use a video clip in order to get to grips with the complexities of the events.

Finally, students will examine a range of evidence in order to decide how significant, the more able will be able to look at this through thinking about short term and long term outcomes.

This lesson is part of a unit of lessons published on TES called Medieval Life: The Unmaking of the Feudal System