WEBQUEST THE NORMANS

 

KEY QUESTIONS- webquest

When was the Norman Conquest? 

What were the causes and events of the Norman Conquest? 

What was the result of the Norman Conquest?What was the Bayeux Tapestry?

How did the success of the Norman Conquest transform England?                                                                          

What was the Domesday book?

What was their language?

http://projectbritain.com/history/Normanbritain.html

https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/normans#:~:text=Top%2010%20facts,1066%20against%20the%20Anglo%2DSaxons.

https://www.historyextra.com/period/norman/surprising-facts-william-conqueror-norman-conquest-harold-godwinson-battle-stamford-bridge-when-what/

THE WEBQUEST

1.The Norman Conquest began in 1066 

 

2.The Normans invaded England in 1066 because they wanted to have Norman king in England after the Anglo-Saxon king died. They eventually defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings, when King Harold II was killed.

 

3.The Normans ruled England for about 300 years

 

4.More than 100,000 people died as a result of the Norman conquest, the battle of Falkirk, fought between Edward I and William Wallace in 1298, was one of the largest engagements in medieval Britain, with almost 30,000 men on the English side alone, but not so much as a single arrowhead has ever been unearthed

 

 5.The Norman conquest introduced castles, chivalry to Britain and banned the English slave trade 

 

6.Domesday Book is a manuscript, a record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

 

Imagine you’re a journalist and you interview William The Conqueror about the battle of Hastings and his first days in England as a king.

Interviewer: Tell me something about yourself

William the conqueror: I am William 1, I’m  usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the bastard. I'm the first Norman monarch of England, I ruled England from 1066 until my death in 1087, I’m the descendant of Rollo.

 

Interviewer:What role did you have before ruling England?

William the conqueror:I was the duke of Normandy from 1035 onward

 

Interviewer: What did you do in England?

William the conqueror: I built many castles, set the new Norman nobility on the land and changed the composition of the English clergy

 

Interviewer:Why were your last years very difficult for you?

William the conqueror:My final years were marked by difficulties in my continental domains, troubles with my son, Robert, and threatened invasions of England by the Danes.

 

Interviewer:When and where did you die?

William the conqueror:I died in September 1087 while leading a campaign in northern France, and then I was buried in Caen.

Watch the ted education about Henry 8th and answer the questions

  1)     What did Henry 8th reform?


2)     Was his first marriage arrange?


3)     Give a definition of an arranged
marriage.


4)     How long did his marriage to
Catherine of Aragon last?


5)     Did he have a male heir from her?


6)     Sounds like quite a pickle. What
does this expression mean?


7)     What was the immediate effect of his
break up with the Church of Rome?


8)     Did the Crown get richer?


9)     Who was Thomas More?


10)  What does the expression “the
process was a sham” mean?


11)  Who gave him a male heir?


12)  Apart Anne Boleyn, who was his other
wife he had executed?


13)  Did Henry 8th support the
arts?


14)  Give a synonym in English of the
word beggar


15)  On the verge of the modern era. Write the same idea in another
way.

Waiting for Godot Questions to understand what happens

• How many characters can you see at the beginning?
• Where are they? What about the place where they’re staying?
• What about the tree you can see? Has it got any flowers or leaves?
• What about their names?
• Who are they waiting for?
• What is one of the two characters taking off  at the beginning of the play?
• Who falls asleep, after a while?
• What does Estragon suggest?
• After that,  two more characters show up  on the stage. What’s weird with them?
• Then a boy arrives and what does he say?
• Is the boy happy?
• What happens to the tree the day after?
• Who are the characters who show up again?
• In what way have they changed?
• What happens at the end?

WAR POETS In Flanders Fields

It is certainly no coincidence that red poppies are found in many and many anti-war songs: traditionally, in the Anglo-Saxon world, these flowers are dedicated to the memory of the victims on the battlefields of the First and Second World War. 

It seems to go back to this poem by John Mccrae, which later became a song with the music of Luc Wynants; and it is so, for example, that in Britain, on  "Armistice Day", everyone brings a red poppy to the buttonhole. 

But it seems to go back much further back in time: it is said that Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor and leader who conquered the greatest empire history has ever seen, always carried with him seeds of poppy that spread on the battlefields after his victories, in remembrance and respect of those who had fallen there, and also to "mark", with the color of those flowers, that there had been a battle.

TIPS to better study and memorize the origins of the British history

 

Some TIPS TO BETTER STUDY and MEMORIZE

WHEN DID THEY ARRIVE IN BRITAIN?

THE CELTS………………………………..; 

THE ROMANS……………………………………………; 

THE ANGLO-SAXONS………………………………….;

 THE VIKINGS………………………………………

 

WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?

THE CELTS………………………………..; 

THE ROMANS……………………………………………; 

THE ANGLO-SAXONS………………………………….; 

THE VIKINGS………………………………………

 

WHY DID THEY DECIDE TO INVADE BRITAIN?

THE CELTS………………………………..; 

THE ROMANS……………………………………………; 

THE ANGLO-SAXONS………………………………….; 

THE VIKINGS………………………………………

(If we know that!, If we don’t know the reason….don’t write or say anything!)

 

WHAT DID THEY DO? (WHAT DID THEY LIVE ON?)= DI COSA VIVEVANO???

THE CELTS………………………………..; 

THE ROMANS……………………………………………; 

THE ANGLO-SAXONS………………………………….; 

THE VIKINGS………………………………………

 

WHERE DID THEY LIVE EXACTLY? (villages, cities?)

THE CELTS………………………………..; 

THE ROMANS……………………………………………; 

THE ANGLO-SAXONS………………………………….; 

THE VIKINGS………………………………………

(If we know that!, If we know something ….otherwise don’t write or say anything!)

 

WHAT ABOUT THEIR RELIGION?

THE CELTS………………………………..; 

THE ROMANS……………………………………………;

 THE ANGLO-SAXONS………………………………….; 

THE VIKINGS………………………………………

(If we know that!, If we don’t know anything….don’t write or say anything!)

WHAT ABOUT THEIR LANGUAGE?

THE CELTS………………………………..; 

THE ROMANS……………………………………………; 

THE ANGLO-SAXONS………………………………….; 

THE VIKINGS………………………………………

 

WHAT kind of HERITAGE did they leave in Britain?

THE CELTS………………………………..; 

THE ROMANS……………………………………………; 

THE ANGLO-SAXONS………………………………….; 

THE VIKINGS………………………………………

 

 

 Ulysses in general terms

NOTES ON ULYSSES

A DEBATE-living in the country or in the city

 

Advantages of living in the country

 

Why should you live in the country?

 

• It’s a quiet place to live in.
• There is less air pollution.
• There is more possibility to stay outdoors.
• There’s less difference in temperature.
• You can grow vegetables on your own.
• You can raise animals from which you can obtain products such as eggs and milk.
• An ideal place where you can meet other people.
• It can be a source of inspiration.