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Enhancing Agricultural Productivity Through New Farming Techniques

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This reading activity focuses on understanding the transformation in European agriculture between 800-1200 AD. Students will explore key advancements, such as the shift from oxen to horses for plowing, the introduction of the three-field system, and the impact of a warmer climate on crop production. Through a structured group activity, participants will identify unfamiliar vocabulary, discuss meanings, underline important concepts, and create a comic strip summarizing the main ideas from each paragraph.

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  1. Ch.14 sec. 2 P. 387 Reading Activity

  2. Group Work Norms • Be Respectful. • Be Productive. • Be Helpful. • Be Positive. • Others?

  3. Step 1 • Hover: Start at the end of the selection, and quickly skim for (don’t read) and circle words that you don’t know the meaning of.

  4. Step 2 • Talk to your group members and see what words you have in common-  see if anyone knows the meaning.

  5. Step 3 • Share out with the class words your table still does not know.

  6. Step 4 • Underline the parts of the passage …

  7. Paragraph #1 • Underline when the warmer climate occurred.

  8. Paragraph #2 • Underline the advantage(s) of owning oxen.

  9. Paragraph #2 • Underline the advantage horses have over oxen when plowing.

  10. Paragraph #2 • Underline the invention that was created to help horses pull a plow.

  11. Paragraph #3 • Underline what happened to food production with the switch to the three-field system.

  12. Paragraph #3 • Underline the advantage(s) well-fed people had.

  13. #1: A Growing Food Supply • Europe’s great revival would have been impossible without better ways of farming. Expanding civilization required an increased food supply. A warmer climate, which lasted from about 800 to 1200, brought improved farm production. Farmers began to cultivate lands in regions once too cold to grow crops. They also developed new methods to take advantage of more available land.

  14. #2: Switch to Horsepower • For hundreds of years, peasants had depended on oxen to pull their plows. Oxen lived on the poorest straw and stubble, so they were easy to keep. Horses needed better food, but a team of horses could plow three times as much land in a day as a team of oxen. Before farmers could use horses, however, a better harness was needed. Sometime before 900, farmers in Europe began using a harness that fitted across the horse’s chest, enabling it to pull a plow. As a result, horses gradually replaced oxen for plowing and for pulling wagons. All over Europe, axes rang as the great forests were cleared for new fields.

  15. #3: The Three-Field System • Around A.D. 800, some villages began to organize their lands into three fields instead of two. Two of the fields were planted and the other lay fallow for a year. Under this new three-field system, farmers could grow crops on two-thirds of their land each year, not just on half of it. As a result, food production increased. Villagers had more to eat. Well-fed people, especially children, could better resist disease and live longer, and as a result the European population grew dramatically.

  16. Step 5 • Create a six- or three- panel comic strip that includes the main idea(s) for each paragraph