A book report slideshow on Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz. Includes audio and visual aids as well as links to interactive media. Appropriate for all age levels and an excellent resource for a language arts curriculum.

1. GOOD MASTERS!
SWEET LADIES!
Voices from a Medieval Village
By Laura Amy Schlitz, Illustrated by Robert Byrd
Creative Book Report – Rebecca Lausch – Kutztown University LIB 585 Children & Young Adult Literature – Professor Long
June 22, 2011

2. Varlets, Vermin, Simpletons, Saints
Setting: A Medieval
Manor, 1255 The Crusades
Peasants plowing fields

4. HUGO, The Lord’s TAGGOT, The WILL, The Plowboy
Nephew Blacksmith’s Daughter
ALICE, The MOGG, The THOMAS, The
Shepherdess Villein’s Daughter Doctor’s Son

5. OTHO, The Miller’s Son JACK, The Half-Wit SIMON, The Knight’s Son
EDGAR, The ISOBEL, BARBARY, The
Falconer’s Son The Lord’s Daughter Mudslinger

6. LOWDY, The DROGO, The Tanner’s
PASK, The Runaway Apprentice
Varlet’s Child
PIERS, The Glassblower’s NELLY, The Sniggler GILES, The Beggar
Apprentice

7. PETRONELLA,
The Merchant’s Daughter
JACOB BEN SALOMON,
The Moneylender’s Son

8. MARIOT,
The Glassblower’s Daughter
MAUD,
The Glassblower’s Daughter

9. Video – A good summary and
review by Medievalists.net
Photo Stream – click photo to see kids
performing Good Masters! Sweet
Ladies! in action

10. Today Show Interview
Laura Amy Schlitz on NBC’s The Today Show with Anne Curry

11. Author & Illustrator
Laura Amy Schlitz, Author Robert Byrd, Illustrator

12. Picturebook!! Picturebook!!

13. Picturebook!!

14. Links to Other Interactive Pages
Teachers’ Guide From
Candlewick Press Medieval Jeopardy and other games from
Western Reserve Public Media
Interactive Games Page from The Middle
Ages for Kids – Check out the Castle Tours!

16. Schlitz, Laura Amy. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval
Village. Illus. by Robert Byrd. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2007.