PowerPoint on the history of year books for a Flipped Classroom. Students take the powerpoint home and do all the research there. They return to class and have an open discussion around a table with the teacher.

2. Year Books are the modern English name that is now
typically given to the earliest law reports of England.
 How was law complied before this time?
The language of the original manuscripts and editions was
either Latin or Law French.
 Why?
La Graunde Abridgement was a collection of cases
compiled out of the Year Books by Sir Anthony
Fitzherbert; this printed edition appeared in 1577.
 Who was Sir Anthony Fitzherbert?

3. Originally, Year Books were compiled by the chief scribes,
of the English courts, and circulated in manuscript form.
 Who were the scribes and who educated them?
Later editions were produced by printing;
The best known printed version is the so-called
"Vulgate" edition.
 Why is it called Vulgate?
• The common speech of a people; the vernacular.
• A widely accepted text or version of a work.
• Vulgate: The Latin edition or translation of the Bible made
by Saint Jerome.

4. • Before the printing press virtually every book and
every document was a manuscript.
• Written by hand, the production of even a single
page was an arduous and time-consuming task.
• Books were expensive and only very popular texts
of universal appeal were likely to be copied.
• With the invention of the moveable-type printing
press, coping manuscripts speeded up.
• Printing was considered vulgar and only for the
poor.
• It fell to the lower classes to recognize the
importance of the printing press.
Come up with one extra fact for
each bullett point.
The Effect:
The people became literate and educated.

5. • The Yearbook, also known as an Annual, has become a
book to record, to highlight and commemorate the
past year of a school.
Why do you think that virtually all American, Australian
British and Canadian high schools, publish yearbooks.
With the rise of Literacy:
Universities opened up all over Europe.
What was the effect of this?
• Universities produce yearbooks to list graduate
qualifications.
• English Schools pick up the same idea.
• Yearbooks are expanded to include other school activities.
A 1939 copy of the yearbook:
La Ventana
from Texas Technological
College (now Texas Tech
University)

6. Think about these points for a class discussion:
 What was life like for the average European worker pre-printing press?
 How was the dominant Roman Catholic Church affected by the
introduction of printing?
 Has anything comparable happened to society since the end of the second world
war?