A short task...
Life as a house slave
Life for women wasn't what you might think ...
Resistance eventually grew...
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
King John
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| Headline from 2015 Daily Telegraph article [quality/broadsheet UK newspaper] |
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| His greatest achievement was arguably also his greatest defeat! |
KING JOHN: MISUNDERSTOOD MAGNA CARTA MAN OR MONARCH FROM HELL?
We will be exploring one of the major figures of the last 1,000 years of history on the British Isles (and beyond?), King John.
What impression does the Horrible History video clip below give you of this king - was he a wise, popular ruler, revered by his subjects?
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Monday, 7 March 2016
Slave Trade: Middle passage and auctions
LESSON: TUESDAY 8TH MARCH
TASK: In pairs or threes, read each other's memoir (like a diary written when you are older looking back at your life) entry on the middle passage.
Sum up what you have learnt from this, and identify anything else you think should be covered in the memoir.
Comment on how convincing you think the memoir entry is: does it read like it is written by a desparate, terrified, confused young boy/girl who has been grabbed from their village, marched in chains to the dock and thrown on a boat, crammed in amongst 100s of others, with little food or water, no toilet, and people dying around them ... all while not really knowing where they are going?
Take notes on the feedback you receive; you will be re-drafting your memoir entry.
Use the remaining time to take notes from the resources below, some of which we will use in the next lesson. Note points which you can use to make your memoir more convincing and detailed.
THE MEMOIR
This topic is assessed through a memoir you write as we go along. Your entries need to reflect what you've learned, and can include quotes from specific sources that you (as the slave) may have encountered. As it is a memoir, you could also reflect on events or opinions that occur a little later than each stage, as you are looking back on your life in 1865...
POWERPOINTS
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TASK: In pairs or threes, read each other's memoir (like a diary written when you are older looking back at your life) entry on the middle passage.
Sum up what you have learnt from this, and identify anything else you think should be covered in the memoir.
Comment on how convincing you think the memoir entry is: does it read like it is written by a desparate, terrified, confused young boy/girl who has been grabbed from their village, marched in chains to the dock and thrown on a boat, crammed in amongst 100s of others, with little food or water, no toilet, and people dying around them ... all while not really knowing where they are going?
Take notes on the feedback you receive; you will be re-drafting your memoir entry.
Use the remaining time to take notes from the resources below, some of which we will use in the next lesson. Note points which you can use to make your memoir more convincing and detailed.
THE MEMOIR
This topic is assessed through a memoir you write as we go along. Your entries need to reflect what you've learned, and can include quotes from specific sources that you (as the slave) may have encountered. As it is a memoir, you could also reflect on events or opinions that occur a little later than each stage, as you are looking back on your life in 1865...
POWERPOINTS
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Tuesday, 1 March 2016
The Black Death
LESSON TUESDAY 8TH MARCH
TASK: Using the resources below but not the videos (you should have notes on these) write up a report on the Black Death, including:
TASK: Using the resources below but not the videos (you should have notes on these) write up a report on the Black Death, including:
- Where did it come from?
- How did it spread (detail the time period and countries effected; if typing this, include a map)?
- What statistics are available to illustrate the impact of the Black Death (a) across Europe and (b) in England?
- Scotland wasn't effected at first - how did the plague spread over Hadrian's Wall?
- What were its symptoms?
- What were some of the cures people of the time believed in? Comment if you can on what this tells you about medieval society.
- What impact did the Black Death have on England? Specifically, why did some poor people actually benefit?
The Black Death from DB3igs
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