Your Quest: Create a skit in which you demonstrate the life and responsibilities of a knight. You may choose to use a narrator and script your skit, or decide that each actor speaks his/her own lines. The skit must be between 2-3 minutes In your script, or actor lines, you must include at least 2 of the following vocabulary terms: fief, serf, chivalry, Charlemagne, feudalism, Christianity. Your Bio: You are the majority of the people in society. Your labor supports the entire feudal structure by allowing lords and knights to spend their time preparing for war. You are either classified as free, or unfree. If you were free, you rented land to farm and owed only your rent to the lord. If you were unfree, you were a serf and could not leave the lord’s manor. In return for your labor, you receive a small plot of land to farm. Every day you work on the farm and raise crops and livestock (farm animals), but could also be carpenters, shoemakers, or other skilled laborers. Along with daily working, you also owe your lord taxes. A lord could demand a tax whenever he needed money, in addition to his yearly payment called “head money”. You live in a small, simple house, with one or two rooms. This house was made out of wood and covered with straw or mud. Inside, there was a hearth fire, but no chimney. Your entire family often slept in the same room that housed your farm animals. You eat vegetables, pork, wheat/rye bread, or fish that had been preserved in salt. As a peasant, you almost never ate beef or chicken, and herbs were used to disguise the taste of rotting meat.
Your Quest: Create a skit in which you demonstrate the life and responsibilities of a knight. You may choose to use a narrator and script your skit, or decide that each actor speaks his/her own lines. The skit must be between 2-3 minutes In your script, or actor lines, you must include at least 2 of the following vocabulary terms: fief, serf, chivalry, Charlemagne, feudalism, Christianity. Your Bio: You are the majority of the people in society. Your labor supports the entire feudal structure by allowing lords and knights to spend their time preparing for war. You are either classified as free, or unfree. If you were free, you rented land to farm and owed only your rent to the lord. If you were unfree, you were a serf and could not leave the lord’s manor. In return for your labor, you receive a small plot of land to farm. Every day you work on the farm and raise crops and livestock (farm animals), but could also be carpenters, shoemakers, or other skilled laborers. Along with daily working, you also owe your lord taxes. A lord could demand a tax whenever he needed money, in addition to his yearly payment called “head money”. You live in a small, simple house, with one or two rooms. This house was made out of wood and covered with straw or mud. Inside, there was a hearth fire, but no chimney. Your entire family often slept in the same room that housed your farm animals. You eat vegetables, pork, wheat/rye bread, or fish that had been preserved in salt. As a peasant, you almost never ate beef or chicken, and herbs were used to disguise the taste of rotting meat.
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