For your Middle Ages project you are to answer the following questions during your research and present the answers through a presentation.

If you find other interesting information that you think your class members would be interested in knowing you are encouraged to also present that information, but it is not required.

You are also required to have at least one visual aide, which you may decide on with your group.

Please answer the following questions on Animals:

• What types of pets did people have in the Middle Ages?
• What were pigeons used for?
• What were horses used for?
• What types of horses were used during tournaments and battles?

Please answer the following questions on Art:

• What were the different art forms during the Middle Ages?
• What did they use for materials for each type of art form?
• Did everyone own art or only a select few people?

Please answer the following questions on Music:

• What records of music do we have from the Middle Ages?
• What is a Gregorian Chant?
• What did a minstrel do for a living?
• How was music a part of the lives of the people during the Middle Ages?

Please answer the following questions on the Black Death:

• What was the Black Death?
• How did people get it?
• Was the Black Death curable?
• What would happen to people who had the Black Death?
• How did someone who had the Black Death get rid of it?  Could you get rid of it?
• Did people die from it?
• How many deaths were there?
• What significance does the year 1348 have to the Black Death

Please answer the following questions on Castles:

• What are the parts of the castle?
• Who worked in the castle?
• What was life like in the castle?
• Who lived in the castle?
• What parts of the castle were used for offense?
• What parts of the castle were used for defense?

Please answer the following questions on Children of the Middle Ages

• What was life like for children of the Middle Ages?
• Did they work?
• Did they go to school?  What did they learn?
• Were their parents strict?
• Did they have toys to play with?

Please answer the following questions on Coat of Arms/ Heraldry:

• What is a Coat of Arms?
• Why were they used?
• What did all of symbols stand for?

Please answer the following questions on the Crusades:

• What were the Crusades?
• Why were there Crusades?
• Tell about the first Crusade.
• Tell about the Children’s Crusade.
• Did the Crusaders have uniforms?  What did they look like?
• Any other Crusades you would like to talk about.

Please answer the following questions on Entertainment/Games:

• What did people do for fun?
• What was a tournament?  When was it held?  Why was it held?
• What were falcons used for?
• What types of games and activities did people play?

Please answer the following questions on Fashion:

• What kinds of clothes did kings, queens, nobles, and peasants wear?
• How were clothes kept clean?
• Did people wear jewelry, what kind?
• What types of accessories did people wear?
• What were shoes like during the Middle Ages?
• What types of headwear did people wear?

Please answer the following questions on Inventions and Technology:

• What was invented during the Middle Ages?
• When were they invented?
• What was the printing press?

Please answer the following questions on Knighthood:

• Who could become a knight?
• How was a boy trained to be a knight?
• Was there a ceremony for new knights?
• What is the code of Chivalry?
• What type of armor did a knight wear?
• What is the Order of the Garter?
• Are there any knights today?

Please answer the following questions on Joan of Arc:

• Who was Joan of Arc?
• Why did she  want to be a knight?
• What was her life like?
• What happened to her?

Please answer the following questions on Manors and the Feudal System:

• What was the feudal society?
• What was the structure of a manor?  How did it tie into the feudal system?
• Who lived in a manor?

Please answer the following question on People of the Middle Ages:

• What was like for kings and queens, nobles, and peasants?
• Did everyone work?  Who worked, and what did they do?
• Anything else about people that you would be interested in studying.

Please answer the following questions on Weapons and Tools:

• What types of weapons were used?
• What were they used for?
• What do they look like?
• What are siege weapons?
• What types of tools were used?
• What were they used for/
• What do they look like?