A Medieval Reflection

We are finishing our medieval times topic this week and so we shall reflect on the kinds of wonderful things that we did.

I have learnt a lot of things about the medieval times like the plague that wiped around a third of their population and about the Crusades when the Pope thought that God would be happy if they destroyed their enemies. About the rankings in the fuedal system and all the different types of people like the peasants and the lords, also we learnt about the castles, the buildings,the villages and the farms.

The activities that helped me remember what I learned were the group reading discussions and making powerpoints. In the group discussions we got to read a piece of information and digest it slowly by talking with the other members of the group and making the powerpoints helped me to read a lot of information and sum it up into something that is easy to read and understand.

Learning about the medieval times has been fun especially with the involvement of minecraft and some trying-to-be-funny videos. So... thank you for choosing this topic it was really interesting.

Electives! Yahooooo!

For term two I chose band. For term three I chose sport.
Now I shall reflect on those electives.

In term two the band elective was made up of girls ... and Ross (the teacher.)
We renamed it 'The Queens' and every week or every two weeks we would learn a new song.
List of the songs:  You've been a friend to me by Bryan Adams
                              We will rock you by Queen
                              Price tag by Jessie J
It was really fun since our teacher didn't get mad even if we were so wildly off key that everyone just stops.

For sport the first three weeks has been turbo touch. It's like touch rugby except you can pass forward and all these other different rules. For the first week it was just learning how to play. The second week was having a few games. The third week was tournament week, I was in a team with Nicole, Stephanie, Anthony, James, William and Oliver.

I think the electives programme is worthwhile.
Students get to have fun with others that have the same interest and it's something to look forward to on a Friday. Of course some people don't always get to do what the want to do.

Overall electives is Fun. (With a capital F.)

Mt Cook Tech

Every Monday, the year seven's and eight's go to Mt Cook for Tech.
This week we finished our messenger bags in sewing which means week four our group will move on to cooking. I have learnt how to unpick the thread if you make a mistake in your sewing and how to refill the bobbin when it's empty so nothing to major. We used a lot of what we learnt in year seven to make what we make in year eight.
My favourite Tech class so far is sewing because we made something that we can take out into the world and use. Also I didn't feel pressured when I started sewing because if you make a mistake it won't totally destroy whatever you're making.

Thee Old Medieval Times

Since we didn't learn that much about the medieval times last term we kept learning about it this term. We have been learning about life back then like the ranks of the society, knights and peasants.

In the medieval times the King had the highest rank then the Barons who were at the same power level as the bishops. After the Barons it was the Knights/Lords, then came the merchants, priests and  craftsmen and finally the peasants or serfs.
Knights or Lords rule over a small village or area, they live in manor houses and the peasants that live in that area farm the land for them. Lords/knights have to be chivalrous which means polite and courteous especially to women.
Peasants or serfs were the workers that took care of the crops, the animals and helped to keep the village in good shape. Some peasants had to ask their lord's permission to leave and some were free peasants who could leave anytime they wanted to.

I would also like to learn about King and what he did most of the time and possibly, if there were any, the robbers and thieves back then.

There are probably a lot of ways to make learning about this fun but I just can't think of any.
Maybe we could be assigned different ranks and have to be a peasant/lord/baron/king for the day?
(It wouldn't be much fun for the peasants though right?)