In the last few lessons we have been learning about the medieval times.

I would have to say that my favorite lesson was when Ms. Nash put this poem up on the board and we had to write what we felt it meant:

“Ring o’ ring of roses

A pocket full of posies

A tissue, a tissue

We all fall down”

This was always a nursery rhyme my mum always used to play with me and you would stand in a circle and when you said “We all fall down” we would always fall down.  Ms. Nash told us to write what we thought what this nursery rhyme meant and I had never thought about this before but I wrote that it meant that they were standing in a ring of roses, that they had a pocket full of tissues and when they sneezed they fell down and died.  To find out what the rhyme actually meant we watched a movie which was like a news report and told us that the nursery rhyme was actually created because of a very deadly disease which actually started by black rats!

I have also learnt that in the middle ages people never took credit for their mistakes and they always blamed it on the gods.  As you can see the people back then were very religious and even when that deadly desease was arounf that I was telling you about before they thought the gods were mad at them for some reason and to once again they blamed it on the gods.

I have had fun learning about the middle ages and hope to learn more.

Zaira!!!