Minfrod Middle School 2006

Renaissance Festival

Seventh Grade Students at Minford Middle School traveled back in time to the late 1500’s when a Queen ruled and knights fought to save the land. Teachers and students worked on a whole grade learning unit about the Renaissance Era for about two weeks in September and October of this year. The students started their unit with a trip to the Ohio Renaissance Festival in Harveysburg, Ohio on September 27^th. While at the festival, the students learned first hand what it would have been like to live in a Renaissance Town during the 16^th century. Once back in the classroom students picked one topic from a list of many different people, events, and careers from the Renaissance Times to study. For one week students researched their topic and prepared their station for our very own Minford Renaissance Festival. Our students created a smaller version of a Renaissance Town based on what they learned over the past ten days. Students from grades third thru eighth visited the fair and learned first hand from their schoolmates about life during Queen Elizabeth’s rule.

Our students were also entertained by Roger Jerome, as Merlin. Mr. Jerome worked with twenty students, which helped him perform in the Merlin and Arthur Show.