ration, creative thinking, problem solving, and new ways of engaging in learning. As you can see, this blog belongs to the students of Beachwood Middle School and Chardon Middle School. Our goal is to allow students to collaborate between schools, districts and cities. The link to the left, "2011-2012 Blog" is for both schools and it is where Mr. Holman and Mr. Pennington will keep everyone informe
The man answered, "A direct democracy is where all of the citizens have an equal say in the decision making process.""That would be amazing for us," agreed some of the other people.
each for one side of the debate. It was quite obvious that the pile for stopping the use of the boat was a bit larger, so without any counting, everybody declared that the majority ruled.
"At least it's not Sparta. Oligarchies," a small woman nearby talking the elder that I had ran into before whispered.
Only a small group of probably aristocratic people can make decisions.
Starting to think about our representative democracy back in the United States of America, I headed back to my sleeping spot the previous night. The debate had taken so long, it was almost sunset. Direct democracies are much more different than our representative democracy, I thought.
In a direct democracy, there are no separation of powers: citizens create laws, enforce laws, and act as judges, whereas in a representative democracy, some people have more power than others and citizens vote people to create laws, enforce laws, and act as judges. But both direct and representative democracies are different than theocracies or monarchies.
Welcome to 2012-2013!! Mr. Holman and Mr. Pennington are looking forward to a great school year filled with collaboration, creative thinking, problem solving, and new ways of engaging in learning. As you can see, this blog belongs to the students of Beachwood Middle School and Chardon Middle School.
Welcome to 7th Grade. Mr. Holman is looking forward to a great school year filled with collaboration, creative
The greatest of medieval kings was born in 742, at a place unknown. He was of German blood and speech, and shared some characteristics of his people- strength of body, courage of spirit, pride of race, and a crude simplicity many centuries apart from the urbane polish of the modern French. He had little book learning; read only a few books- but good ones; tried in his old age to learn writing, but never quite succeeded; yet he could speak old Teutonic and literary Latin, and understood Greek.
Puss-Drinking and
Scab-Eating--The
general populace scorned lepers for their appearance and disease.
As an act of humility and caring, many female saints such
as St. Catherine would care for these "untouchables" by licking
away the puss in their wounds then eating the scabs. People
considered these saints especially holy.
These men would take a ladder, climb up to the top of a ruined
Roman column, sit down, and then kick away the ladder, vowing
to remain there contemplating God until they died.
Mr.Holman you said that the people had some fever and then died right?
"The
first signs of the plague were lumps in the groin or armpits. After
this, livid black spots appeared on the arms and thighs and other parts
of the body. Few recovered. Almost all died within three days, usually
without any fever."
The Black Death had a huge impact on society. Fields went
unploughed as the men who usually did this were victims of the disease. Harvests
would not have been brought in as the manpower did not exist. Animals would have
been lost as the people in a village would not have been around to tend them.
Those who survived the Black Death believed that there was
something special about them – almost as if God had protected them. Therefore,
they took the opportunity offered by the disease to improve their lifestyle.
Peasants could demand higher wages as they knew that a
lord was desperate to get in his harvest.
To curb peasants roaming around the countryside looking
for better pay, the government introduced the Statute of Labourers in
1351 that stated:
No peasants could be paid more than the wages paid in
1346.
No lord or master should offer more wages than paid in
1346.
No peasants could leave the village they belonged to.
Though some peasants decided to ignore the statute, many
knew that disobedience would lead to serious punishment. This created great
anger amongst the peasants which was to boil over in 1381 with the Peasants
Revolt. Hence, it can be argued that the Black Death was to lead to the Peasants
Revolt.
Why did the bubonic plague spread so quickly?
In towns and cities
people lived very close together and they knew nothing about contagious
diseases.
1.5 million people
In Medieval England, the Black
Death was to kil
out of an estimated total of 4 million
people between 1348 and 1350
The Black Death is the name given to a disease called the
bubonic plague which was rampant during the Fourteenth Century. In fact, the
bubonic plague affected England more than once in that century but its impact on
English society from 1348 to 1350 was terrible.
It symptoms were described in 1348 by a man called
Boccaccio who lived in Florence, Italy:
ck Death was caused by fleas carried by rats that
were very common in towns and cities