5/3/19

◦Setup: ◦Objective
◦ Pencil ◦ Students will examine
◦ INB the elements of the
social classes of feudal
◦Reminders society in order to
◦ Pick my family project is compare the
due 5/13 relationships of the
◦ Go to your normal class social classes to one
Monday 5/6 another
Tape in
pages
◦Page 127
◦ Skip this page for
now
◦Page 128
◦ Chivalry (Flip)
◦ Feudal
Responsibilities
(Flip)
Chivalry Reading
◦ Read page 128 titled “Chivalry” in your INB
◦ You will have 2 minutes
◦ Think of what values and rules are important to you as a person

◦ At your Table Groups come up with a 3 rule long Code of

Chivalry
◦ Make sure everyone has a voice in the creation of rules
◦ Make sure that these are the three most important rules to you and your
table
◦ Write the code down at under the “Chivalry” reading so you do not
forget it
Feudal responsibilities
◦Use textbook 506-511 to complete
INB page 128
◦ Read about each individual class and
what their responsibilities were in the
feudal system
◦ Record their responsibilities in the
space provided
◦ Answer all questions at the bottom of
the page
Feudal Responsibilities
◦ Lords/Nobles:
◦ Provide vassals with fiefs
◦ Send help to his vassals if an
enemy attacked
◦ Couldn’t cheat or punish vassals
for no reason
◦ Build castles to defend lands
◦ Knights:
◦ Fight for the lord
◦ Give lord money on special
occasions
◦ Feed and shelter lord if he visited
◦ Governed the manor and
provided justice
◦ Serfs:
◦ Had to give knights/lords food or
other payment
◦ Worked the lord’s land and
provided other forms of labor
◦ Made clothing, cooked, grew
vegetables, gathered firewood
◦ Skilled Workers:
◦ Produced finished goods (EX:
Blacksmith made iron tools for
farming)
 Feudal Society Duties and Obligations

Lords/Nobles • Provide vassals with fiefs

• Send help to his vassals if an enemy attacked
• Couldn’t cheat or punish vassals for no reason
• Build castles to defend lands

Knights • Fight for the lord

• Give lord money on special occasions
• Feed and shelter lord if he visited
• Governed the manor and provided justice

Serfs • Had to give knights/lords food or other payment

• Worked the lord’s land and provided other forms of
labor
• Made clothing, cooked, grew vegetables, gathered
firewood
Skilled • Produced finished goods (EX: Blacksmith made iron
Workers tools for farming)
Feudal Responsibilities
◦ 1. How could a noble be both a lord and a vassal?
◦ If a vassal gained enough land he could become a lord. In this way
a person might be a lord and vassal. A noble could be the vassal of
the king and lord over a knight, his vassal.
◦ 2. What goods can you see being produced on the manor?
◦ Flour, iron tools, wool
◦ 3. Why were serfs willing to stay under the control of the
vassals and lords?
◦ They received their lord’s protection from outlaws and raiders.
Lay out the manor
◦ Read student resource sheet MAE 24, this talks about the
Medieval Manor
◦ While reading make annotations about where each class lived
◦ Try and visualize the manor itself and where different people would
be living
◦ Complete the second page of MAE 24, which is laying out
the manor
◦ Shade each piece of land a different color, representing the class
that lived there
◦ It would be helpful to make a key based on the colors you use
◦ Example: Clergy = RED
 Serfts to Knights: Nobles to Lords Kings to Nobles: Knights to Serfs:

Social Pyramid Closure Knights to Nobles Name:__________________

Date:___________________
Nobles to Knights

Period: _________________

◦ Students will fill out the social

pyramid organizer as their closure
◦ Label each step of the pyramid (Lords,
Knights, Skilled Workers, Serf)
◦ Label what the lower classes give the
higher and the higher give the lower
◦ Question: Which class got the best deal
out of feudalism and why?
◦ Answer on the back of the sheet, use what
they are giving and receiving to justify your
answer
 Serfts to Knights: Nobles to Lords Kings to Nobles: Knights to Serfs:

Social Pyramid Closure Knights to Nobles Name:__________________

Date:___________________
Nobles to Knights

Period: _________________

◦ Serfs to Lords Lords to Serfs

◦ Soldiers Land (Fief)
◦ Food Security
◦ Shelter Protection
Help if attacked
◦ Labor
◦ Money Classes
◦ Protection Knights
Vassals
◦ “Taxes” (food
Nobles
portions)
Serfs
Lords
Question: Which class got the best deal out
of feudalism and why?