1. Name:………………………………………………………….
Teacher:……………………………………………………….
Date Task 1 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Date Task 2 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Level 5 and 6
Key Stage 3
History Homework Booklet
Term 5: The Medieval Church
Your task: Today, only a small percentage of the population go to church
every Sunday, but in the Middle Ages, everyone was religious. The Church
was the centre of their lives. The biggest building in a town or village was
the church. It was a Catholic church because in the Middle Ages the
Catholic religion was the only one. All men and women believed in
Heaven and Hell. Rich people would even leave their land and money to
the Church, hoping it would get them into Heaven. As the Church services
were in Latin there were lots of pictures on the wall to help the people
understand the message of the Bible. Look at the following Doom
Painting from a Medieval Church and answer the questions.

2. The bottom part of the painting shows what happens to people in
Hell. Write the correct letter where you can find the following
in the Doom painting:
A. Murderers being put into a pot of boiling water
B. A money lender burning on flamers, still counting his gold
C. A bridge of spikes for dishonest tradesmen
D. Demons pulling people off the ladder
E. A woman having her hand bitten by a dog. She is confessing to
pampering her own dogs with meat when poor people were going
hungry
F. A drunken pilgrim drinking from a wine bottle
The top half of the painting shows things happening in Heaven. Write
the correct numbers where you can find the following in the Doom
painting:
1) Christ defeating the devil who has his hands tied
2) St Michael weighing people’s goodness to see if they should go to
Heaven or Hell
3) Angels helping people up the ladder
How would the Doom Painting make people feel in the Middle Ages and why would
it make people feel this way?
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Task 1

3. What did everybody think happened to you when you died in the Middle Ages?
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What language were the Bible and Church services in during the Middle Ages?
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Why do you think the Church put pictures of Heaven and Hell up around the
Church?
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What can you learn from Doom Paintings about life in the Middle Ages?
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Draw your own version of a Doom Painting:
Task 2

4. Key Stage 3- Year 7 History Homework
Term 5- The Medieval Church
Name:
These grades are
recorded in GO.
Poor/ Satisfactory/ Good/ Excellent
Criteria: To research and explain about the importance of an individual.
What you did well:
You have made excellent judgements
using sources and have explained
them well.
You have made excellent judgements
using sources.
You have picked out good information
from sources.
You have picked out some information
from sources.
Your spelling, punctuation, and
grammar in this work is excellent.
Your work is very well presented.
Your work shows excellent effort.
Your work shows good effort.
Targets to improve further:
You need to give more detail when
explaining what you have found out
from the sources.
You need to think about what the
source tells you but does not actually
say.
You need to explain the judgements
that you make from sources.
You need to read sources more
carefully.
Take more care with your spelling,
punctuation and grammar.
Take more care with the presentation
of your work.
Your work shows it would benefit
from more effort.
Student Response
Note here anything you are not sure about:
What are your personal targets:
Miss Limm