Oklahoma Social Studies AWH.C.9.5.A
The Standard
- AWH.C.9.5
- Analyze the Latin West following the fall of the Roman Empire.
Explain the structure of feudal society and its economic, political, and social effects, including the differing orders of medieval society.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · AWH.C.9.5
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify clergy, nobles, and workers, and describe how their roles differed. They trace exchanges of land, labor, loyalty, and protection between lords, vassals, and peasants. They explain how those ties shaped wealth, power, and daily life.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can draw a labeled diagram that keeps clergy separate from the lord-vassal chain. They can explain why peasants owed labor, why lords held political power, and why social rank was hard to change.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may put clergy beneath peasants in a single feudal pyramid, even though the Church held land and influence. They may call all peasants serfs or confuse a vassal's oath of loyalty with a peasant's labor dues.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Draw a lord, vassal, peasant, and priest, with the priest outside the lord-vassal chain. Add arrows for land, loyalty, and labor, then write who held political power and who had little chance to change rank.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs role cards for priest, lord, knight, and peasant; use yarn to connect people who exchanged land, work, loyalty, or protection.
Read a short manor record of peasant duties; ask who benefits from its rules and who has a say in changing them.
Play a matching game with cards naming roles, duties, and effects, such as a peasant's labor dues and a lord's crop income.
Compare a modern rental agreement with a sample manor dues list; have students mark payments, obligations, and each person's rights.
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