Medieval Manors & Manners
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A double period highly interactive performance program immerses students the Middle Ages with energetic storytelling, skits, vocabulary, manners, and a song.
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Students will help solve mystery tales. They'll understand how the feudal system worked, learn about guilds, Knights, outlaws, feasts, nobles, serfs, franklins, marriage, pilgrims, alchemists, & how to catch a unicorn.
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Donning quick costumes, some students help act out troubadour guided skits, to show classmates life in the Middle Ages.
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Everyone practices feast table manners. “Bloweth not upon thy soupe!
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Everyone learns some 13th-century words. "Forsooth" "Fobbing puttock" !!!
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All sing the chorus of that medieval hit, “Sumer is Icumen in”
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A four-page student activity packet is provided. Plus, a ten-page guide for teachers!
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Everyone learns and has fun.
Story Possibilities:
From Serf to Storyteller - a tale within a tale, dramatizing the route, a young serf "owning nothing more than the hunger is his belly" took to become a master troubadour. Students experience feudalism, learn what makes "Franklin," and "Villain." They see what the Lord of a Manor must do to protect serfs from "parcels of rogues." They'll encounter Saint Vitus's dance and solve a riddle.
The Three Dolls - Are they alike? A young king’s head depends on the right answer!
The Poacher - a dilemma tale for students to solve. Who took the baron’s deer & why?
Who is Mightiest? - an ancient Russian fable of an arranged marriage turned around
The Loathly Lady - a Chaucerian tale adapted for sixth graders with a dramatic choice.
Gawain and The Green Knight - a classic Arthurian legend of adventure and honesty.