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Grade 8： A Special History class

March 2, 2016

Grade 8： A Special History class

Normally history class is boring to almost every student, however, the history class on February, 25thwe had a very interesting day. Teachers had designed a special activity to help students to well understand the history of the Medieval Europe. In order to make students know more about that period, this game was based on the social system, feudalism. The tools in this game was very simple: a bag of small dry Chinese cookies and some papers. The paper was used to identify the role of students with the role written. There were 4 roles in total: peasants, knights, nobles, and the king. The peasants were at the bottom of the society with largest population. With the higher social level of role, the power with it is bigger. As a result, there is only one king, but the power of King is the highest. Everyone has to listen to King’s order. At the beginning of this activity, each student was chosen their role by randomly luck-drawing the paper. Teachers gave the peasants 4 small cookies. However, because of feudalism, they only got to keep one of them and had to give the rest of cookies to the knights. Since there were less knights than peasants/farmers, one knight usually controlled 2 or 3 peasants. But among all the cookies that knight had gotten from the farmers, he can only kept 2, and gave the rest to the nobles. As to the nobles, they can only keep 3 and gave the others to the king. Finally, the king himself had almost all of the cookies, even the king didn’t do any work. From this game, students had learnt more about the cruelty of the society. They had understood why the farmer had worked really hard with only a little earning, and how the king and the nobles got what they need without any work.

(Written by Grace Liu from 8(1) Picture by Ms. Chen)