Title: Medieval Castles Presentation
Course: Social Studies 08 - 1.0.0.0 > Section: Unit 2: Medieval Europe

You will create a slide presentation to answer the question, “Would I want to live in a medieval castle?”
- Your slide presentation must have at least eight slides:
- Three slides will present reasons why you would want to live in a medieval castle.
- Three slides will present reasons why you would not want to live in a medieval castle.
- One slide will have a final statement of whether, overall, you would or would not want to live in a medieval castle.
- One slide will have a list of your sources (a list of URLs is sufficient — you do not need to have a properly formatted bibliography).

Steps to complete this assignment:

1. Find at least one virtual tour of a castle online. Spend at least 10 minutes touring the castle and reading the information on the website you find.
2. Find two or three other reliable resources that have information about what life was like in a medieval castle. Keep track of your resources for your source list.
3. Take notes on interesting and relevant information that you find.
4. Create your slides, using a presentation software, such as PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Canva.
  - For each slide, give a specific fact, then analyze why that fact would or would not make you want to live in a castle. Here is an example:

Castles were well fortified, with stone construction, tall walls, moats, iron gates, towers for shooting, and inner walls for further protection. Life was dangerous in medieval times, so the safety of a castle is one reason I would want to live in one.

  - Include at least one picture for every slide. Keep track of where you got your images for your source list.
5. Create a slide with a concluding statement about whether you would or would not want to live in a medieval castle.
6. Create a final slide with a list of all of your sources for both information and images.

Rubric

 | Insufficient Evidence | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Extending
 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Research and communication skills | There is too little content to adequately assess my proficiency. I need to resubmit this assignment | I show an initial ability to use social studies processes to gather information, apply what I have learned, and communicate what I have discovered. | I show a satisfactory ability to use social studies processes to gather information, apply what I have learned, and communicate what I have discovered. | I show a complete ability to use social studies processes to gather information, apply what I have learned, and communicate what I have discovered. | I show an outstanding ability to use social studies processes to gather information, apply what I have learned, and communicate what I have discovered.