another EXTRA CREDIT / MAKE UP OPPORTUNITY (Gentile's core)
You can ALSO make up vocabulary and Castle Reading Packet work with Cornell-Style notes on a vocabulary term. Like with the example in class (Dovecot), you can research quite a bit about a word -- it's background, history, purpose, symbolism, or place in society (all related to medieval times)
EXAMPLE (worth 3 points if you copy and turn in with vocabulary):
THATCHER (THATCHER'S HUT)
* to find information on this that best fit, just typing in "Thatcher" or "thatcher's hut" didn't quite work; adding "medieval times" to the search gave me a few better web page options to read
THATCHING building a roof with dry vegetation
such as straw, water reeds, or long grass
THATCHER A crafts person who builds roofs with dry vegetation
WHY lightweight, readily available, easy to use
wattle and daub walls (mud, dung, straw) not super strong
roofs had to be lighter in weight
WHO USED Typically the POOR (serf, peasant, poorer nobles)
or used in lightweight, cheap sheds or buildings not very important
HOW USED Tied into bundles, set in layers, tied to beams
"SIGNATURE" Thatchers would often leave an artistic "signature" at ridge/edge
Something to indicate their work, like bird shapes or some other image
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source: British Expresss; "Thatching: The traditional British craft;"
edited by David Ross
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/thatching.htm
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