For the less academic pupil, this series provides a resource for the delivery of the curriculum in a colourful way, enticing children to enjoy learning. This book covers the Middle Ages for KS3 History. High-quality full colour resource organised into topics with key words pinpointed, activities throughout and supported by three accompanying workbooks. Contents: Welcome to the Middle Ages! The Norman Conquest 1 Who were the Normans? 2 Where did they come from? 3 The fight for the English throne 4 Rivals do battle 5 Saxon soldiers 6 Norman soldiers 7 The story told by the Bayeux Tapestry 8 Two accounts of the Battle of Hastings 9 How did Harold die? 10 Taking control 11 The Feudal System 12 The Domesday Book 13 Castles 14 Stone castles 15 Castles under attack Medieval Society 16 How a Norman person was named 17 Norman food 18 Norman clothes 19 Norman games and pastimes 20 Norman justice 21 The poor 22 The rich 23 Town life 24 Country life 25 Convents and monasteries 26 Holy men 27 Holy women 28 Women in medieval times 29 Getting married 30 Disease and death 31 The Black Death 32 Knights and Crusades Ireland and the Normans 33 Ireland before the Normans 34 Dermot MacMurrough 35 Dermot and the Normans 36 A wedding in Waterford 37 Why the Normans came 38 The Normans invade 39 The conquest of Ulster 40 De Courcy: the Norman who wanted to be king 41 De Courcys legacy lives on 42 Carrickfergus Castle 43 Carrickfergus Castle the siege 44 Carrickfergus Castle change over time 45 Norman soldiers and Irish soldiers 46 The Greencastle skeleton Timeline

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Ks3 History For Lower Abilities .

This book is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed. This book was published in 1998 by Colourpoint Creative Ltd .

Sheila Turner Johnston was born in west Cork, Ireland and spent her childhood in different counties the length and breadth of the country, as the family moved wherever her father's job took him. She attended Queen's University, Belfast, and apart from managing to graduate against all her expectations, one of her best experiences was reading her poetry to an audience that included Seamus Heaney. Sheila has won prizes for both fiction and non-fiction, and has written many articles for both local and national publications. She and her husband Norman founded the publishing stable Colourpoint Creative Ltd, which is now owned and managed by their two sons. Maker of Footprints is her first published novel. Sheila can be contacted at sheilaturnerjohnston@gmail. com. Also by Sheila Turner Johnston The Harper of the Only God Selected poems of Alice Milligan (as editor) Alice, a biography of Alice Milligan. Colourpoint 1994 The Middle Ages (with Kathleen Gormley) Colourpoint 1997 History In Close-Up: the Twentieth Century Colourpoint Educational, 2010 History In Close-Up: the Medieval World (with Norman Johnston) Colourpoint Educational, 2011 Kathleen Gormley has a Masters degree in modern history and teaches history and politics at St Cecilia's College in Derry. For two years she was seconded to the Western Education and Library Board as a History advisor. She is author of several local history publications and textbooks, including co-authorship of the other two books in this series. Dr Austin Logan, until his untimely death in 1995, was an Advisor on Environment and Society with the Western Education and Library Board. He was the prime mover behind this series of books.