Drawing Conclusions

What conclusion can you draw about the culture, the rulership and the pressures of life at that time based on the kind of information that was chosen to be in the time-line?

Question Stem

The time-line reports that in 1399 Richard II is deposed; Henry IV becomes king. What do you think "deposed" means, and what conjecture can you make as to how this may have happened?

Synthesis

Why do you think Chaucer is referred to as "The Father of English LIterature"?

Question Stem

What historical events probably influenced Chaucer's writing?

Essential Question

How important is power/control in healthy personal relationships?

Essential Question

What was the medieval notion of chivalry and how is chivalry defined today?

Cultural Orientation

What was life like for people in the Middle Ages, and what similarities do they share with us?