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 * Title: **** Ye Thought Thou Had Issues ~ Medieval Society **
 * Grade: ** Seventh Grade
 * Name: ** Pam Collins


 * Project Idea: ** Students will gather, analyze, interpret, and synthesize all aspects of life in medieval times, focusing on period clothing, housing, social issues, and social classes. After reading the book, //Good Masters! Sweet Ladies,// and compiling additional research of life in medieval times, students will use their findings to make connections to social issues in today’s world.


 * Driving Question: ** How would social issues faced by people of medieval times impact the lives of students today?

~ Write an individual research paper (W.4, W.5, W. 7) ~ Group **Project**: Create a multimedia presentation on issues faced by the people in medieval times (W. 7.6, SL. 7.4, SL.7.5, SL 7.6) ~ Revisit the characters of the medieval village (RL 7.3, RL 7.6, RL 7.9) ~ Prepare dramatic interpretations of //Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!// (SL 7.6) ~ Perform dramatic interpretations of //Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!// (SL 7.4, SL 7.6)
 * Content: ** Students will relate text to self, while researching, developing, and presenting their findings in a written composition, a multi media presentation, a dramatic performance and the creation of an original monologue.
 * Advance Learner**: Students will select a medieval building from anywhere in the world and create a conversational travel guide from the medieval perspective. As a part of the project, students imagine someone who might have lived in that building, then write an original monologue for that character based on their research of living conditions during medieval times (W.3, W.4, W.5, W.6, W.7, and W.9) (Idea by Sharen Pula)


 * Skill Focus: analyzing character, setting, inference, compare and contrast, making connections, monologue, dialogue, citing textual evidence**