Enquiry: ​​HOW DID WILLIAM TAKE CONTROL OF ENGLAND?

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Study the picture below taken from the Medieval minds textbook (page 48) and discuss with your partner what advice you would give to William regarding the dilemmas he is facing.

An excellent opportunity now for some active learning through the simulation 'Je Suis le Roi'. you will need the following some barnyard animals/toys, swords, crown, Norman helmets, tabbards and building bricks and a French speaking IB student!
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Je Suis le Roi- simulation

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What was william I like?

How did william become king?

How did William take control of England?

Independent Research Task:

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Questions

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Rebellions

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The feudal System

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Castles

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The domesday book

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Essay Powerpoint

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Absolute Monarchy

Additional Tasks:

2. Taking the land Read over pages 49-51, up until the Step One box. Complete the task in Step One. 
3. Controlling, sharing and enjoying the land Work through through the other Steps one by one.
4. What did the English think about William?Read the sources from page 80-81 in the SHP year 7 textbook and note down:
  • Details that praise William
  • Details that criticise William
5. Did the English benefit or suffer from being ruled by Williams? Using a line marked 0 to 5, with 0 being really suffered from and 5 being really benefited from,decide where the following things should go:
  • Castles
  • Law and order
  • Domesday Book
  • Feudal System
  • Punishments
  • Churches
  • Hunting Laws
6. What did the English think about William?Bringing it all together
  • Intro – briefly explain
- Who William was and when he became king - how William took control e.g. sharing out the land,
  • Part 1: This should explain how English people would have suffered during William's rule and why it is very likely a sizable number of the population would have hated him.
There were many English people who had many reasons to hate William. One reason for this was…. One source that supports
  • Part 2: This should follow on from the first section, but talk about the things that things that English people would have had mixed feelings about
Some things that William did would have affected the English in different ways and they would have had mixed feelings about them. One example is...
  • Part 3: This should cover the ways in which some English people gained from William's rule
However, there were reasons why some English people could have liked William, for example....
  • Part 4 - this is optional, but to make your answer even more sophisticated you could explain why it hard for us to know for certain what the English thought about William.
It is difficult to be completely certain what the English thought of William because...
  • Conclusion
Overall, it is likely that most English people would have.... because... However, some would have.... because Resources