Day 30: Handouts, classwork, and homework

*Note (1): Underlined words are links to downloadable pages.
*Note (2): Please be prepared for a possible pop quiz at the beginning of each class. It will be based on material presented in the previous class.
*Note (3): Blog details are subject to change.

Social Studies 8

Based on pages 52 – 56 in the text

The Medieval Church – Concept

• The Catholic Christian Church guided and controlled many aspects of medieval life.
• For example, the church owned/controlled large areas of land, and gained wealth from the payments it received
• Monasteries were centres of education. To get an education, a person would have to be connected to the church in one way or another
• Monasteries and nunneries also looked after the sick and poor, so they provided a service that most people could not get anywhere else
• Parish priests took care of the needs of peasants living in their parish; births, deaths, weddings, christenings
• To not be accepted by the church often meant social rejection
• Church officials were needed to write contracts, letters, check records
• The church often had equal or greater power than a local lord

The basic concept is that the church had an influence on people’s lives that is hard for us to imagine today. To disobey the church meant you could be excommunicated, which was basically the same as being told that you were going to hell.

Handout: Medieval Church notes. Go through and discuss.

Start Cathedral Video with view guide

Related text questions: Page 56

Chapter 3 unit test, Thursday, March 26

Social Studies 11

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