Life on the Manor

Daily Objectives:

• For those of you who asked for project ideas, here's a list of Medieval crafts and projects you could try out.
• We discussed test scores (now available on PowerSchool) and answered questions. I am unable to return tests as I still have a few people needing to make it up. Also, if you're interested in a re-take, let me know ASAP!
• Oath of Fealty
• Rather than a journal, we read this Anglo-Saxon Oath of Fealty. Then, we wrote a 3 sentence oath of fealty of our own (you choose who you are swearing your loyalty and life to!)
• Lesson on Manors with MME
• Left Side: Feudal Manor Graphic
• Extra Credit Left Side (if you have room) - Draw a serf and list 3 facts about or responsibilities serfs had. (Worth points towards this week's notebook check!)
• Feudalism Game as review

Main Idea:

Each fief contained at least one manor which contained a village, church, manor house, and stream

where peasants and nobility lived.

Words Worth Knowing

Manor: the estate within a fief that the lord had control over as well as his house on the estate.

Fallow: land left unplanted so the soil could recover and gain nutrients again

Mill: a building on the manor that used wind or water to grind corn or grain which was owned by the lord

Parsonage: a home for the clergy on the manor

Common pasture: land owned by the lord that peasants and serfs had the right to use for their animals

If you were gone: 

 Check out this webquest - Skip to the feudal pyramid and begin "Life on the Manor"  to the end of the page. The manor picture will be the left side for our notebooks today!

For Left Side Assignment Help:

Click picture to make it bigger!