Re-living ANCIENT TIMES

Through organized ‘time travel,’ seventh-grade students learn about former eras that impact lives today

By Cindy Garrison

The West Linn Tidings, Jun 19, 2008, Updated Oct 30, 2009

Cindy Garrison / West Linn Tidings

Dancing has an important role in life today as well as in the Renaissance era. Dancing through a “tunnel” fashioned by other famous characters and townspeople, Jared Howard, also known as Peter the Great, emerges from the tunnel. Left: Kaela Frost studies the role of fortune tellers for her part in the Renaissance Faire at Rosemont Ridge Middle School. Using a makeshift “crystal ball,” she looks into the future.

Aye. Nay. Hark. Good morrow.

These are everyday words that a knight in shining armor would have spoken in medieval times. They also are words that seventh-grade students from Rosemont Ridge Middle School studied to prepare for the Medieval and Renaissance Faires, held recently at the school.

Students in classes taught by Pam Busch and Steven Pratt studied the middle ages during the last few months of the school year.

Busch’s students studied the Renaissance era and Pratt’s students studied medieval times.

When asked if she would have liked to have lived during the Renaissance, Lee Rost declined.

“I think I’m fine with where I am right now,” she said. “I think the Renaissance was difficult for some people.”

Lee, who plans to become a doctor, researched and played a doctor for the faire.

“Since I was a doctor, it was easy to find the research – what they did and how they treated patients,” she said.

Some of her peers had a harder time researching their particular topics.

Lee was able to compare doctors during the Renaissance to doctors today and judge how they reached their goal of helping others.

“I want to become a doctor,” she said. “I really want to find a cure for cancer – or close to (a cure).”

Lee’s friend, Chrisann Kim, played Joan of Arc during the Renaissance Faire.

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