Short Monologues: Lives Of Ordinary People From A Medieval Village

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This text is a book of short monologues describing the lives of ordinary people from a medieval village in 1255. This book allowed my seventh grade students to see the time period from another perspective. Although, the characters are fiction, their stories are based in fact. These stories allowed students to experience the lives of these people from a firsthand account, creating interest and a personal connection to the content. During this lesson, students used the characters’ monologues to identify character traits as we studied characterization, using the medieval time period as focus for our content.

During a characterization unit using the medieval period as a focus, students were asked to use context clues to identify character traits

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