Its maps and local places change to show each school's own area: its streets, hills, castles and old workplaces. Pick your school to see the lesson as your class would.
Its maps, and the words in yellow, are that school's own local places.
Choose another schoolLook at the district map on the board. Find our school in the middle, then find the castle nearest the school.
What ground, water or roads can you already see around it?
Our question for this lesson is: what does its position tell us about who watched this ground, and who lived under that watch?
Let's find out what castles, tower houses and mottes were built for.
We are going to the castle nearest the school with our clipboards and castle sheets.
If we cannot go out, we read the castle's record on the board and fill in the sheet from it.
Back in class, look at your castle sheet. What does the castle look out over?
On the district map we will mark what the castle nearest the school could watch.
When several marks are down, answer together: who needed to watch this ground, and who might have been watched from these walls?
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