1. Find out from the pictures in the Saxon Calendar:
- (a) the occupations of the Saxons,
- (b) the instruments they used in farming,
- (c) the kind of dress they wore.
(See Traill and Mann, Social England.)
2. Plan and build a Saxon village (in a sand tray or with clay, etc.).
3. Write down what you think the miller and the goose boy would say in the dialogue.
4. Describe a Saxon Hall. (Read descriptions in Beowulf and Ivanhoe.)
5. Look at some old manuscripts, if you can, and make some illuminated letters.
6. Build a monastery in cardboard, paper or clay.
7. Cut out in paper some figures of Saxons and make a procession on their way to Church to keep a festival.
8. Write the story of Alfred's messenger arriving at the monastery to borrow the chronicle for the King's use.