Bayeux Tapestry
I’m currently putting together a lesson on the Bayeux Tapestry for year 8, and am amazed at how many fantastic resources are out there freely available! So far I’ve delved into the below, and found them to be particularly useful: Hands on History: The Normans Museum of Reading Woodlands Junior School BBC UK Battle of [...]
Medieval crime & punishment part 2
2 days after the disastrous lesson with year 7, I was back for more. After some seating changes, we launched in – and this lesson went beautifully. I was very happy, the master teacher was happy, and most of the kids were happy (the ones that were kept back at the end weren’t, but there [...]
Medieval torture techniques….
… that I was more than tempted to use on my year 7s. JOKES! (maybe) I was happy with the lesson content, timing, and for half of the students, I think the lesson went really well. The usual noisy ones were a bit out of control, but considering I haven’t seen them for a month [...]
Feudalism
This is a lesson plan and resource from a few weeks ago. It’s very reliant on the textbook Retroactive 1, and looking back I really don’t like the lesson at all! It’s terrible, but is a starting point for later. The class didn’t go too badly considering it was a hyperactive year 7 class, my [...]