Earth Day-April 22

More people participate in Earth Day than any other secular (religious) day in the World

Today-Earth Day, corrections on Middle Ages, and a Kahoot
Tomorrow-St. George's Day, corrections on poem(or do you want more time for that?)
Friday-Journal and Kahoot

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. -- Jane Goodall

This year's official video

Our present situation and some suggestions going forward

1. Blog below your thoughts on two things. Do you think that after the pandemic is over, people will change their behaviour in ways that will be beneficial to the Earth? Are you changing your behaviour to be better to the Earth?

Corrections from Monday's Middle Ages questions. Some excellent answers and I have included some of the as examples. 

5 Marks-5 things you found interesting

Some of the answers were

They invented Greek fire.

-schools were founded in monasteries -king owned all the land in the country -crossbow was founded at that time - a lot of things were founded then and our world has improved those inventions now but kept them to the same purpose. 

1. People and even children would drink wine or ale because the water was very contaminated. 2.Serfs had to pay tax to the owner for letting them work on his land. 3.They almost never washed. 4. The church had to build special barns for holding in the tithe they got from people. 5. Most people weren't even slightly educated and knew only how to work.

Islamic people made the concept 0 and the numbers. the east were the ones who made university, Christians invented the windmill, all their houses had pointy roofs, saints had a gold ring painted around their head in paintings

1.people paid tax in the early middle ages 2.if people had animals they kept them in the house 3,rich people only had a couple baths every year 4. doctors would 'bleed' people by putting leeches on them 5.boys married at 14 and girls married at 12

 2. they used some of the same medical techniques as people in ancient Greece 3. if a peasant was to kill an animal on their lords land they could be sentenced to death 4. peasants children usually only lived up to about 6 months old 

The bread was gritty from the millstones and let to peoples teeth wearing down quickly. Sometimes doctors would bleed a patient by sticking a leech to their skin. Peasants had to pay a tax of 10% of what they farmed that year to the church. Peasants weren't allowed to hunt on the lords land, killing a deer would sometimes result in death.

1 Mark -Who rivalled the King for Power.  I was looking for the answer of the Pope, since the Pope and Kings were in a constant struggle at the start of the Middle Ages for power. I also took the answer of a Lord, since people under the King would sometimes try and usurp the King.

2 Marks-What facts did you find to be most appealing/disgusting

cows live in homes

I like that everyone was competing to find new stuff and be the smarter country unlike now the world is competing for some dumb things. I dislike that if you were poor or a peasant you had to be in such inequality and do a bunch of stuff fr other people and barely get anything for it.

I find it to be disgusting that it was rarity for people even of high nobility to wash. Also I find it a bit funny and sad that people were so poor they would steal someone else's clothes while they would be in one of the "stews" washing.

the black plague i find appealing and disgusting, its interesting but disgusting what it did

people did not bathe and the rich only took baths a couple time a year

Peasants would plaster the frame of their house with a mixture of mud, straw, and manure. Peasants wore plain clothing mode out of heavy wool to keep them warm.

1 Mark-Explain Peasant
A poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation.
Peasants are poor farmers that worked for the land of knights and nobles while getting protection.
A poor laborer of low social status, who works on a person of higher nobility's land, who in return gives them shelter, food and protection for as long as they work.


 1 Mark-Explain Serf
serfs were like peasants that were sold with land.
Serfs would be laborers who would work on and pay rent for nobles or knight's land, who in return would give them home, food and protection for as long as they worked. Also the word serfs come from the word " slave" in Latin.

 1 Mark-Explain Lord/Noble
Nobles/Lords were people who would be given land or "fife" by the king, and in return they would give him their loyalty and some soldiers and horses for his army. the Lords could also give some of their land they got from the king to knights, who would in return would fight for the nobles and occasionally, the king.
lords would own the land that peasants farmed on
Level of power below king, supplied king with soldiers and horses for his army.

 1 Mark-Explain tithe
One tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy.
A tithe is a tenth of what a farmer would earn annually in the middle ages, taken as a tax to support the church.

 2 Marks-Differences/similarities between the Middle Ages and now
In the middle ages they almohad to pay "taxes" just like we do today. Also at that time the church was a big part of everything and ruled a lot while now the church is not the leader of everything of and we don't have to do anything for the church unlike those days.
One similarity I find is we have to pay taxes for our house and necessities.We have clean water when then they didn't have any to the point where you could only drink alcohol. We can choose different jobs when they only knew how to do one job, the job that they helped their parents with. We don't have to marry at age 12-14 like they did.They didn't bathe, while we do.
We still have different levels of power ex. mayor, prime minister. Lots of people get an education today (although there are still places where it is uncommon).