During the past classes in Social Studies, we have been playing games that helped us learn about the Renaissance period. It is a board game, and there is an option of landing on a Stump or Blunder card. A stump card is where you have to do A LOT of research and type up a report or things similar to it. A Blunder card is when information is given on the card, but you have to find the mistake.
e.g Blunder Card
You are in Florence, and you are having an intelligent conversation with a dignified man. You start talking about the theory about the Earth rotating around the Sun. The man’s smile disapears and walks away from you.
The blunder is that at that time, everyone believed that everything rotated AROUND the Earth, not the other way around. Also, that was also officially agreed by the Church, so it was a bad thing if you thought differently from the Church.
A Stump card would look like this:
e.g. You are trying to learn table manners like the Renaissance. Write a report showing what the rich and common people ate, and how a shopping list would look like from the Renaissance period.
You would have to write a list showing what rich and common people ate during that time, and also type up a shopping list of what an average person in the Renaissance would write out. You had to do a lot of research to find out what kind of foods they ate.
The one thing that made me think our group researched something wrong was that even commoners got to drink wine. I thought that only the rich could drink wine, but I guess I was wrong…
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