Use David Macaulay's book, your history book and your journal notes to create an annotated "drawing" of a Medieval European castle. Due Thursday, Sept 19. You will have time in class to work on this project today (Friday). After today, this is homework.
You may trace. You may use artistic methods other than drawing.
You may draw all or part of the castle. You may do a "bird's-eye" drawing. You may include the manor or a town as part of your drawing. You may do any type of defensive European Medieval castle from the years 1000 to 1400. They must be realistic. No fantasy castles or fantasy elements.
Include 10 annotations (2-3 sentences each). An annotation is more than just a label. Annotations include full sentences explaining the item they label
- Six annotations should label and explain a part of the castle: Do some research on this. You may include basic things like a bailey or a drawbridge, but higher scoring projects will include things like the portcullis, murder holes, garderobes, arrow loops, parapets. (Look them up.)
- Four should label and describe a person: one for each of the four main social classes. (Monarch, lords/ladies, knights, peasants). You can draw these people or you can simply draw a line to the room in the castle where the monarch stays for example. Tell something about that class or type of person. How they live. What kind of work they do. etc.
Annotations should contain lots of historical information
Drawings (artwork) should show effort.
Here are some examples of annotated castles I have found. Some of these would not get a very good grade from me because their annotations are so short and contain so little information. But they are all very good artwork.
There is also one in your history book on page 71 and 73.
You may trace a picture in Castle for this project as long as your work shows effort.
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