Rules of Courtly Love
Chivalry
Overview
Secondary Lesson Plan on the Medieval period, chivalry, and how it compares to modern culture of chivalry.
High School Social Studies
Standard:
4.B.9-12.3 Actively listen, evaluate, and analyze a speaker’s message, asking questions while engaged in collaborative discussions and debates about social studies topics and texts.
Lesson:
As a bell ringer, I will have a few of the statements from Rules of Courtly Love written on the board. Students will read them, and have a few minutes to write down what they think they mean and come up with their own modern rules of courtly love. We will fill out a KWL chart about the rules of courtly love, chivalry, and any thoughts and ideas we have about the Medieval period. We will compare and contrast what chivalry looked like in the Medieval era and current era. After the bell ringer, we will come together as a class, to watch a crash course video on Medieval Europe. While watching the video, students will fill out more of their KWL chart. Then, I will break students into groups and have them discuss any of the questions that they wrote down during the video. Afterwards, the students will reevaluate the phrases that they came up with, and rewrite them to match their newfound understanding of what courtly love looked like during the Medieval period. To close, students will share their poster of their made-up modern rules of courtly love.
Tasks:
- KWL Chart
- Rules of Courtly Love poster