Archive for September, 2008

Stalin and Collectivisation

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

A new running dictation exercise providing students with thorough details about Stalin’s policies for agriculture, including the Ukrainian Famine of 1932. Designed to accompany the full IB / A-Level unit on Stalin’s USSR.

Starter Activity: Methods of the Abolitionists

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

This PowerPoint provides students with an overview of the actual methods used by the real abolitionists. How do they compare with the campaigns the students came up with for Alan Sugartrader?

The Rise of Stalin

Friday, September 26th, 2008

A new interactive running dictation exercise which outlines the main events in the final years of Lenin’s life which led to the Rise of Stalin as dictator of the USSR.

The Apprentice - A Campaign to Abolish the Slave Trade!

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Alan Sugartrader of the good ship Amistrad leads the abolitionist movement in your local town. He has invited ambitious young businesspeople to come up with a brand new national campaign designed to generate support for the anti-slavery cause. Using a range of sources and a structured framework for preparation, groups of students have to produce a viable campaign which justifies who it is aimed at, where it will be focused and how it will fund itself.

Why Appeasement? (GCSE History)

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

A new diamond 9 diagram for GCSE Historians studying the causes of World War Two. Get students to elaborate on each factor and rearrange them in an order that makes sense to them. They can then use it to answer the question “Why did Britain pursue a policy of appeasement?”

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Head2Head Worksheets

Friday, September 19th, 2008

I have uploaded two worksheets to accompany the Head2Head Virtual Interviews. These are designed to work “off the shelf” and provide focus and direction to students conducting their virutal interviews with Hitler, Henry VIII, Martin Luther King, Dr. Fox and Stalin.
1. Newspaper Interview Task
2. Truth or Fiction Task