1-the-peasants-revolt.ppt resumen de la economía

Resumen sobre la historia de Estados Unidos.

1. Give students money as they
come in.

2. What can you see?
What do you think happened to this man?

3. This is the skull of Simon Sudbury.
In the year Sudbury was murdered, peasants from Essex and Kent formed
an army and marched to London and attacked lots of buildings and people.
They were revolting against the way the country was being run.
Simon Sudbury was one of the people they killed. They cut off his head and
stuck it on a pole on London Bridge.
What is shocking about this is that Sudbury had thought he was safe. He
had hidden in the King’s castle, the Tower of London. But the rebels had
managed to break in.
What is more shocking about this is that Sudbury, like Becket before him,
had been the Archbishop of Canterbury!
What had gone so wrong that ordinary people wanted to do something as
drastic as murder the most important man in the Church?
Why did the
peasants revolt
in 1381? And,
how important
was this man,
John Ball, in
causing the
revolt?

4. How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
Today I will practice:
•Explanation skills: Identifying relevant reasons (causes) of an event
•And making decisions about which reason (cause) is most important
• In this lesson, we will begin a new study of the
Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, which took place in the
Fourteenth Century – just after the Black Death.
• One of the causes (reasons for) the Peasants
Revolt was the Black Death!
• Yet there were other causes, too, including John
Ball – how important was he, compared to the Black
Death? What was his role in causing the Peasants
Revolt?
Our new Enquiry Question

5. RECAP: The Feudal System
King
Nobles
Knights
Peasants
Archbishops
Bishops
Priests
Peasants…
• were the lowest members of society
• had to work hard on the land with little pay
• had to pay taxes and work for the church without pay

6. How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
Cause: What happened? How do
you feel?
Justification
(why do you feel like this?)
Peasant
Life
Peasants were the p_____members of society.
They had to work on the l______ for little
money, they had to pay t_____ and work for
the C______ and the L______without pay
Peasants had a hard life, with little
f_____ _______ and a lot of w_____.
However, this had been their lot for
centuries and they were used to it. They
believed that G____ had said that it
should be this way.
Statute of
Labourers
after the
Black
Death
The Poll
Tax
John Ball

7. RECAP: The Black Death
Peasants who survived the Black Death got richer/poorer
because there were more/fewer peasants to do the work.
This meant that the peasants could charge more/less
money for the work they did.
This made the King and the nobles happy/unhappy as they
were worried that they were losing/gaining power.
In 1351 they introduced the Statute of Labourers. This said
that peasants could only be paid the same as they had
before/after the Black Death.
This made the peasants richer/poorer and therefore
happy/angry and this was an important cause of the
Peasants’ Revolt.
How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?

8. Cause: The Black Death
What happened?
I was getting richer because
there were fewer people and I
could ask for higher wages
but now I am getting poorer
again because of the Statute
(law) which put a cap on my
wages.
How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?

9. How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
Cause: The Black Death

11. Cause: The Poll Tax
1377: First Poll Tax introduced (4 pence)
1379: Second Poll Tax (8 pence)
1381: Third Poll Tax (12 pence)
How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
•The poll tax is a tax that Richard II and his
uncle John introduced. There had been a long
war with France. Wars cost money.
•So the King made everyone pay 4p every
year. Then he raised the amount in 1379 and
raised it again in 1381 to 12 pence.

12. How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
Cause: The Poll Tax

13. Cause: John Ball
How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
What is a good question to ask
John Ball to find out how
important HE was in the event?

14. What is a good question to ask John Ball?
That depends on what you want to find out! The enquiry question is:
How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
1.Try to find out what John Ball did or didn’t do that might help you
understand why the peasants revolted.
2.Try to avoid anachronism (i.e. asking questions about something
that didn’t exist then)
Choose from the following list of questions or make up your own:
1.What do you do for a living?
2.How do you feel about the poll tax?
3.Can you marry a nun?
4.Why have you come to talk to us peasants?
5.What do you think about how peasants are treated by other people?
6.Can you help me untie my goat?
7.Do you earn more than a Bishop?
8.Do you talk to God a lot?
Make NOTES about IMPORTANT things John Ball says.

15. Cause: John Ball
“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?
“From the beginning all men by
nature were created alike.”
“Consider that now the time is
come, appointed to us by God, in
which ye may ( if ye will ) cast off
your chains, and win back your
freedom.”
How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?

16. How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
•John Ball was a priest who worked at St James' Church in Essex. He
believed it was wrong that some people in England were very rich while
others were very poor. He made the peasants angry against the Lords
who were taking money from them, and he encouraged the peasants to
try to improve their lives. Ball's church sermons (lectures) criticising the
feudal system upset the bishops. In 1366 he was sacked.
•John Ball became a travelling priest and gave sermons in local churches.
He was told that he should not be allowed to preach in church. He
responded by giving talks on the village green. Eventually he was sent to
prison.
•On 7th June, 1381, Ball was rescued by rebels led by Wat Tyler. After
ransacking the Archbishop of Canterbury's palace, the rebels, led by Tyler
and Ball, began their march on London. When the rebels arrived at
Blackheath it was estimated that there were about 30,000 people in Wat
Tyler's army.

17. How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
Cause: John Ball

18. CONCLUSION:
How important was John Ball in the peasants’ revolt?
Which of these answers do you like the best?
Would you like to combine any of these answers?
Would you like to come up with your own theory?
• John Ball wasn’t important. He was just one man.
• John Ball was the most important cause of the peasants’ revolt. He
got all the peasants really worked up and angry which made them
want to take action.
• John Ball was important, but he wasn’t the most important. All the
causes were as important as each other.
• John Ball helped start the revolt, but he was not as important as
the Poll Tax or Black Death. John Ball didn’t do anything to change
peasants’ lives, like make them poorer.