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Provides a summary of Merlin’s plan to hide Arthur, Arthur’s emergence as king by pulling the sword from the stone, and the early formation of the Knights of the Round Table. Includes background and themes with references to Arthurian legends, chivalry, and historical claims. Offers structured before-reading and after-reading tasks, including group discussions, role play, creative chapter titles, character-based card questioning, chapter retelling, and a glossary of key vocabulary for Chapters 1–3.","P e n g u i n R e a d e r s F a c t s h e e t s  \nT e a c h e r ’s n o t e s  \nKing Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table  \nRetold by Deborah Tempest  \nS U M M A R Y  \nM  \nerlin, the wise man of legend in stories of ancient Britain, realises that the country  \nwill be plunged into turmoil at the death of its strong leader, Uther. So he arranges to take away the heir to the throne, Uther’s son Arthur, and hide him in anonymity against the time when he can take his rightful place as king.  \nAs Merlin had feared, on the death of Uther, civil war breaks out, and it is only when Arthur is already a young man that Merlin judges the time is right for him to emerge from obscurity. He travels to London, with Sir Ector who has looked after him for so many years, and, without realising the significance of his actions, Arthur pulls the sword from the stone which marks him out as the next king.  \nHe quickly gathers around him the bravest and best knights in the kingdom and Merlin makes around table for them to sit at in the perfect city of Camelot. Thus begin the adventures of the Knights of the Round Table, tales of bravery and chivalry, but tales, too, of treachery, kidnapping and violent death.  \nB A C K G R O U N D A N D T H E M E S  \nThe stories of King Arthur have passed down through the histories of both Britain and France. There is some historical evidence that a person called Arthur or Uther was a leader or king in Wales, Cornwall or Northern Britain. This person  \nled the Britons against the Anglo-Saxons from the London area in the fifth century AD. There is a record of a King Arthur winning the battle of Mans Badonicus in 516 AD. However, another account gives the date as 500 but does not mention Arthur. The death of someone called Arthur is recorded at the Battle of Camlann in 537. Camelot could be a corruption of this name. The theme of romantic, courtly love and the importance of chivalry runs as a thread through the Western literature of the Middle Ages. At a time when life for most people was, as a later philosopher called it, nasty, brutish and short, the idea that there could be men who could travel the country, fighting evil, rescuing damselsin distress and falling in love was perhaps more appealing than in our more egalitarian times. There was a certain truth behind the myth. Knights certainly existed, serving a king or lord in return for land or pay, and fighting his battles for him. Ladies in the Middle Ages sometimes appointed knights as champions to fight their battles for them. However, even by the 17th century, the notion of the knight-errant, the original freelancer, was seen by many as absurd, and famously ridiculed in the stories of Don Quixote, attacking sheep and windmills in the mistaken belief that they were fearsome foes.  \n© Pearson Education 2001  \nl e v e l  \nELEMENTARY  \nP e n g u i n R e a d e r s F a c t s h e e t s  \nT e a c h e r ’ s n o t e s  \nC o m m u n i c a t i v e a c t i v i t i e s  \nThe following teacher-led activities cover the same sections of text as the exercises at the back of the Reader and supplement those exercises. For supplementary exercises covering shorter sections of the book, see the photocopiable Student’s Activities pages of this Factsheet. These are primarily for use with class readers but, with the exception of the discussion and pair/groupwork activities, can also be used by students working alone in a self-access centre.  \nACTIVITIES BEFORE READING THE BOOK  \n1 Ask students to work in groups and talk about any stories in their culture about a legendary figure who did brave things. Ask them to make a list of stories that they remember. Ask them to discuss the kinds of events which happen in these stories.  \nACTIVITIES AFTER READING A SECTION Chapters 1–3  \n1 Ask students to work in small groups and think of possible reasons why Uther had to give Arthur to Merlin. 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