Teachers

Pre-Trip Classroom Prep

When you arrive at the Ozark Medieval Fortress, you and your class will experience a fascinating one-hour guided tour of the site.

During the tour you and your students will see and hear information about:

• the whys and hows of the Ozark Medieval Fortress.
• medieval culture and life.
• castles and their origins.
• the geometry of construction.
• architectural styles and techniques.
• the quarrying and shaping of stone.
• the work of artisans.

Some ideas that you might want to discuss with your students before the visit are:

• Food in the Middle Ages.

• Feudalism from the point of view of the nobles, the peasants, and the skilled artisans.
• the basic forms of Roman, Romanesque, and Gothic architecture.

• Machines of war in the Middle Ages.

• Louis IX, the original Saint-Louis, the king of France when the original model for the Ozark Medieval Fortress was constructed.
• the lives of nobles, knights, and servants in a medieval castle.
• the roles of the church in Medieval times – religion, politics, the life of the monks.

• Medieval Ages and the Renaissance, and the differences between them.

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