{"id":929,"date":"2023-07-12T12:47:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T11:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenandthecrusades.wordpress.com\/?page_id=929"},"modified":"2023-07-12T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T11:47:15","slug":"teaching-ks3-gcse-and-a-level-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/womenandthecrusades.org\/index.php\/teaching-ks3-gcse-and-a-level-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching KS3, GCSE and A Level students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"margin-right:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">You can help your students explore women&#8217;s participation in the Crusades using the quotes, images, and recommended texts on this site. Here are some lesson topic ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson:<\/strong> <strong>Latin women and the Crusades<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction: briefly reintroduce the Crusades as a topic (5 minutes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ice breaker: ask students what sort of person was a &#8216;crusader&#8217; &#8211; a man? A woman? A knight? (5 minutes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ask students to read Margaret of Beverley&#8217;s description of her actions and circumstances during and after the Third Crusade (on the <em>Latin Women and the Crusades <\/em>page), and to make notes (10 minutes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initiate a class discussion of the text &#8211; are Margaret&#8217;s descriptions of her actions surprising? What about her brother&#8217;s choice to write about them? (5 minutes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduce Baldric of Bourgueil and Albert of Aachen&#8217;s descriptions of women&#8217;s participation in the Crusades (on the <em>Latin Women and the Crusades <\/em>page). Ask students to read and make notes (10 minutes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initiate a class debate: based on these texts, what did women do during the crusades? (10 minutes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cool off activity: ask students to design a historical drama about a woman alive during the Crusades (10 minutes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson: Muslim Women and the Crusades<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can help your students explore women&#8217;s participation in the Crusades using the quotes, images, and recommended texts on this site. Here are some lesson topic ideas: Lesson: Latin women and the Crusades Lesson: Muslim Women and the Crusades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenandthecrusades.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenandthecrusades.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenandthecrusades.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenandthecrusades.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenandthecrusades.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/womenandthecrusades.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenandthecrusades.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}