CCSS2: Project Unit 6

I am going to give you the beginning of a story.  You have to finish it using any format that you choose, such as: a play, a movie that you record at home, a comic-strip, a book, a power point etc.

You must use the story to explain the following concepts:

1.    The feudal system: what it is and why it developed

2.    Fiefs and their two parts

3.    What life was like for peasants

4.    The “Estates of the Realm”: privileged and non-privileged, the clergy (high and low), the nobility (high and low) and the peasants (serfs and free peasants).

5.     Inefficient agricultural practices (Roman plough and 2-year crop rotation system).

6.    The church (the most important thing in society and the crusades)

7.    Romanesque architecture: the purposes and characteristics

8.    Sculpture and painting (purposes and characteristics).

As always, you will be marked on CLARITY, COMPLETENESS AND CREATIVITY. You may choose your groups (up to four students) or work alone.

Here is the story:

Marty Macfly woke up early and had a strange feeling. He instinctively looked outside and saw a mysterious car that had crashed into a tree in his front garden at some point during the night. He ran downstairs and out the door to investigate.  He grabbed the door handle and was surprised to see that it opened vertically.  Two crazed eyes stared straight into his, and an old man said, “YOU! COME WITH ME!”

Marty tried to run away but the man grabbed him and shoved him into the car.  He started driving faster and faster and suddenly everything turned into a blinding white light.  Next thing he knew, he was lying in a field of wheat.  All he could hear was the neighing of horses in the distance.

“Hey you!” said a voice.

“Where am I?” asked Marty, “What day is it?”

“Well, I don´t know who you are,” said the voice, “but it’s the Lord’s day and we’re going to be late to church. Hurry up!”

The voice belonged to a small boy.

“Hi, I’m James,” he said.

“I´m Marty.  By the way, where am I?”

“You’re on Lord Osvaldo’s fief, of course.”

“What’s a fief?”….


THE PROJECT IS DUE THE 19TH OF DECEMBER.  ANY PROJECTS NOT HANDED IN THAT DAY WILL AUTOMATICALLY HAVE A MAXIMUM GRADE OF "5".