Tales from the Middle Ages

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Medieval Times

• A manor is a piece of land where the lord lives in a large home and rents out other homes on the land to tenants who farm the land or provide services to the people in or around the manor. The manor provides the people who live there homes, jobs, and security.

Lesson 2: Beetle

• When writing in the first-person point of view, the author uses the word "I" for the main character. When writing in the third-person point of view, the author refers to the main character as "he" or "she."
• Definitions of the following vocabulary words: pockmarked p. 44, gluttony p. 45, casks p. 48, lout p.50, nuzzling p. 51, befallen p. 55., threshing p. 66, teemed p. 75, penning p. 77, and comely p. 83.

Lesson 3: Summer

• There are four basic sentence structures: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.
• A simple sentence contains one independent clause.
• A compound sentence is made up of two independent clauses.
• A complex sentence contains one dependent and one independent clause.
• A compound-complex sentence has two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.

Lesson 4: Special Delivery

• A ballad is a narrative set to music.

Lesson 5: A Baby

• Active voice means that the subject of the sentence is performing the action of the verb.
• Passive voice means that the subject of the sentence is receiving the action of the verb.

Lesson 6: The Inn

• Food was in high demand in the Middle Ages. The wealthier you were, the greater the variety of foods you could afford.

Lesson 7: An Angel or a Saint

• Domesticated animals were a crucial part of the economic system during the Middle Ages.
• When you elaborate a sentence, you add details to it such as adjectives, adverbs, transitional words, or prepositional phrases.

Lesson 8: Newborn Hope

• Homophones are two words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings.

Lesson 9: Cast of Characters

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Lesson 10: Point of View

• In the first-person point of view the narrator is usually the central character and tells the story from his or her own perspective, referring to himself or herself as "I" throughout the story and other characters in the story as "he" or "she" or "they."
• In the third-person point of view, the narrator is outside of the story. The narrator refers to every character as "he" or "she," but no one is referred to as "I" or "you."
• A rarely used narrative point of view is the second-person point of view in which the narrator refers to one of the characters as "you."
• With a limited third-person narrator, the thoughts and feelings of only the main character of the story are revealed.
• An omniscient third-person narrator knows all of the objective and subjective occurrences and reveals what is necessary to the story. The narrator reveals more than one character's thoughts and feelings.
• Perspective is the scene as viewed through the eyes of a chosen character. The story, however, can be told from any one of several points-of-view regardless of the perspective chosen.

Lesson 11: Village Life

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Lesson 12: Glassblowers, Tanners, and Snigglers

• Descriptive writing is writing that describes a person, place, or event in great detail.

Final Project: Life in the Middle Ages Think-Tac-Toe

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