Friday, April 30, 2010

Answers to game

This game that we played is a game played in 1066 with the battle off hastings. You can play as William or Harold G. The point is that you have to win or defend Duke William or Harold G. The fun of it is that you have to use a strategy to win, and its really interesting what strategies you can use. How complicated and difficult and brutal it is. The Saxons used a shield wall to block off the Normans this was very efficient but then by accident the Normans thought there king was dead so they retreated and they Saxons broke there line and ran after the Normans but William was still alive and they noticed that they would break there wall. So they made a fake retreat to break the Saxon wall so they then would cut them down and kill Harold. You can learn strategies and Technic in fighting in that time.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Catherine Called Birdy

The book Catherine Called is a historical fiction novel taken place in the medieval ages. The character is teenage girl called Catherine try's to get free from her locked up by trying to get equal rights, gender equality, and power of the church. You can tell she is trying to get free because she keeps getting locked up in her chamber, like when she burned down the barn, that just proves that shes a fighter. Equal rights because she wants to be able to choose her marriage, like when she was forced to marry Shaggy Beard. Gender equality because she gets mad that the boys get all the adventure and the girls gotta stay home and clean. Like when she was sad that she couldn't become a crusader. Power of the church because Catherine thought they made such boring and depressing, like those feast they always had. All in all life in medieval ages was extremely difficult and fustrating.

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