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I chose a baker because they feed the town that they live in.

About my Baker **Location** **:** Manchester, England **Role in Feudal Society**: Peasant **Reason**: To earn a living and to feed the village **Activities**: He bakes bread for the village **Interests**: Baldric has always had an interest in archery **Education Level**: He has low level of education **Occupation (job):** Baldric is a baker. He makes 20 different types bread each morning. The majority of the bread he makes is white dough bread and rye bread.
 * Name **: Baldric the Baker
 * Age ** **:** 21
 * Gender ** **:** Male
 * Marital Status ** **:** Married with one child named Walter
 * Religion ** **:** Catholic

** __A Day In The Life Of Baldric The Baker__ **
 * __ 6:45 __** I wake up in the morning in my hut. My hut is made of mud, bricks, and wood - with no windows - because we cannot aford them so we have slots that we open instead. **__ 7:00 __**I get dressed in my simple clothing of woolen knickers and a simple cotton shirt. Then I wake up the rest of my family, my wife and 4 year old son. **__ 7:30 __**Then we have breakfast. We eat a slice of rye bread, leftover from yesterday at the bakery. **__ 8:00 __** We go to our kitchen, I put on my apron, and get ready to bake. My wife is also a baker, and she is teaching my son how to be a baker too. I get out all of the ingredients, mix them, and start to knead the first batches of rye bread. Rye bread sometimes contains tree bark. (The rye bread is for the poor people in the town.) **__ 8:30 __** I get out all of the ingredients, mix them, and start to knead the first batches of white dough bread. (The white dough bread is for the upper-class people in the town.) **__ 9:00 __** I start to bake the rye bread. **__ 10:00 __** I take the rye bread out of the oven and put the white dough bread in the oven. __** 11:00 **__ I take white dough bread out of the oven. **__ 11:05 __** We open bakery and prepare for the first customers to arrive. Some of my customers I know well because they come into the bakery often. I like to talk with them alot when they come in to buy their bread. __** 3:45 **__ I take the the left over rye bread dough from this morning and bake it. When that is in the oven, I collect the white bread dough and get it ready to bake. **__ 4:30 __** Then I take the rye bread out of the oven and put the white dough bread in the oven. **__ 5:15 __** I take the white dough bread out of the oven. We wait for the last customers of the day to arrive. ﻿**__6:00__** We close the bakery and we all go home. **__ 6:05 __** I put out the fire in the brick oven and start to clean up the bakery. I sweep up the dough and flour from the floor. I wipe the wooden tables with a wet cloth. **__ 6:45 __** I go back home to my hut with my family. **__ 7:30 __** I have dinner with my family. We have a simple dinner of cabbage, nuts, and rye bread. **__ 8:30 __** We all go to bed after it is dark.

__ **I Wish I Were A L﻿ord﻿** __ I am a baker but I wish I were a lord. The responsibilities that bakers have are to follow the king's rules and the lord's rules. Bakers have to do what is asked by the king, lords, and knights - such as pick up trash. The rights that bakers have are: they can bake as many loaves of bread as they want, they can open and close the bakery as late and as early as they want, they can make as many types of bread as they want, and they can wear what they want. The only major // disadvantage of being a baker is that // if you do not make much money with selling bread, you will live a very hard life without much money. The only major ad// vantages that bakers have are that lords and knights must follow the Code of Chivalry, so they have to be kind to peasants (bakers are peasants), and peasants will not be asked to do anything against the king's rules. //               Lords have lots of responsibilities. They are to keep the manor at an appropriate noise level, collect papers for the king, keep the manor clean, collect taxes and give them to the king, and serve as a peer tutor. Also they are to do anything asked by the king, follow all the king's rules, and give shelter to knights, peasants, and serfs. The biggest responsibility of all is to follow the Code of Chivalry. Rights that lords have are: to be protected by knights, to get food from the peasants, and to get everyday items from peasants. __ ﻿ __ D isadvantages of being a lord are you have alot of responsibilities, not many rights, and you are a noble so you must follow the Code of Chivalry. This means that you must be kind and protective to those in your care. A// dvantages of being a lord are they get food from peasants and serfs whenever they want, they also get everyday items from peasants, and they get protection from knights. //   **__ Modern Day Knight __** __ Baldric the baker __ Baldric the baker is a baker from the middle ages. He is a peasant on his manor, one of the lower classes from the middle ages. He can make many types of bread and he has his own bakery. His bakery provides bread for his manor in Manchester, England. He makes some bread for the lower class people and some bread for the higher class people. The breads that he bakes for the lower class people are brown bread, black bread, and rye bread. (When he bakes rye bread, sometimes it contains tree bark). The bread that Baldric bakes for the higher class people on the manor is the manchet bread and the white bread. The more types of bread that Baldric makes attracts more customers. Because he bakes so many types of bread, he has many customers, but he still does not make very much money. Baldric has a family - a wife and son. His wife works at the bakery. His son is learning to be a baker. Baldric's bakery should stay open for a long time since it is a family business.

__ Duff Goldman __ Duff Goldman is a modern day baker. He is a celebrity. He can bake many types of cakes and he decorates cakes to look fancy. He can make a cake look like anything that his customers might want. Here are some examples of cakes that he has made:



Duff Goldman has his own TV show called "Ace of Cakes". (It is on the Food Network.) Duff Goldman makes tons of money as a baker. He charges his customers at least $1000 for a cake. For him to deliver the cake, he charges $175 per hour to get to your house. This delivery is on top of the cost of the cake! He has done more than just baking during his life. He played ice hockey when he was in high school. (That means that he was educated.) When he was 14, Duff Goldman started to work in kitchens. His first job was was working in a bagel shop in a mall. In the year 2,000 he opened his own bakery which is called " Charm City Cakes ** ﻿". **



__ Why Baldric is better than Duff Goldman __ The reason why Baldric is better than Duff Goldman is that Duff Goldman became more popular when he went on TV. Before that, the only people that knew him were the people in his town. Also Baldric had to get customers the hard way - people would have to tell people, who would tell people, who would tell people. Duff Goldman could just use an avertisment to get people to come to his bakery. Baldric had almost no eduction - Duff Goldman had a full eduction for his whole life. Baldric never did anything else beside being at the bakery. Duff Goldman played hockey for something else to do when he was in high school. Baldric had a job in his family's bakery from the time that he could walk. Duff Goldman did not have a job until he was 14. I respect that Baldric earned his money the hard way and he never complained even though he lived a hard life on the manor.