Year 8A & Year 8B
Today you are going to …
- get feedback on the assessment task on “The Impact of the Printing Press”
- revise feudalism
- watch a film set in Renaissance France…
Follow the instructions step by step:
1.
Look at your result for the assessment task on The Impact of the Printing Press.
Here are the answers to the task. (Your task will be teacher-assessed.)
(2:58 minutes long)
2.
Feudalism declined during the Renaissance. Can you remember what feudalism was…? (Perhaps read the information on p.24 again…)
Feudalism. (2:11 minutes long)
3.
Now you are going to watch a film… It is a 1998 romantic drama inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella. The story is historical fiction. It is set in Renaissance France. It is a modern interpretation of the Cinderella story.
The story begins in 19th century France: a wealthy Grande Dame invites the Brothers Grimm to discuss their interpretation of “Cinderella”. When the Brothers Grimm arrive at her home, the Grande Dame speaks of the many legends surrounding the story of the “cinder girl” before telling the “true” story of her ancestor. She shows them a glass slipper and tells them the story of Danielle de Barbarac…
In 1502 Renaissance France, eight-year-old Danielle is the daughter of Auguste de Barbarac, a wealthy widower. He brings home his new wife, the Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent, and her daughters Marguerite and Jacqueline, and gives Danielle a copy of a very special book… As he departs for business two weeks later (a fortnight) something unexpected happens that left Danielle in the care of her new step-mother, Rodmilla…
Ten years later, the de Barbarac manor is in debt because of Rodmilla’s expensive lifestyle. She even sold a faithful family servant, Maurice, into slavery so that she could pay her tax!
Danielle is forced to work as her stepmother’s servant and is mistreated by Rodmilla and Marguerite. Then, one day , she stops a man stealing her father’s horse, only to realize he is Prince Henry of France… Prince Henry was running away from his parents, King Francis and Queen Marie because they wanted him to marry Princess Gabriella of Spain. On his flight to escape this arranged marriage, Prince Henry also met a famous Renaissance artist…
Disguising herself as a noblewoman, Danielle tries to buy back her family servant Maurice, whom step-mother Rodmilla sold into slavery (and would now be sold on to Cartier, a French explorer) going to the Americas…
4.
Now, watch “Episode 1” by accessing it in Schoology Materials. (This “episode” is 31:08 minutes long.)
Look out for anything that relates to what you have learnt about the Renaissance!
- IMPORTANT: First make sure that you are logged into your School Gmail account.
- Then open Schoology to access the link to the film.
If, for some reason, it does not work, click on the square (at the top right) in the schoology page for “Episode 1” – then the video should work. It looks like this:
5.
Here are some great quotes from this film!
If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?
Danielle
How do you live each day with this kind of passion. Don’t you find it exhausting?
Henry
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