Archive for the ‘1750-1900 (Year 9 History)’ Category

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

Life on the Slave Plantations [2] - Images and Explanations

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Students are presented with a series of images and explanations and placed into teams for a competition over several rounds to test knowledge and understanding of life on the slave plantations. Instructions for the game can be found here.

Life on the Slave Plantations [1] - Slave Narratives

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Students are placed in role as a real-life slave and read a first-person narrative from this sourcepack. They are then interviewed by the class, who records their findings in an attempt to determine the sorts of punishments inflicted for different types of “crimes” on the slave plantations.

Runaway Slave Advertisements

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

This PowerPoint displays a series of advertisements for runaway slaves. Students are encouraged to read through each to deduce the sorts of conditions that slaves had to endure

The Art of JMW Turner: PowerPoint Starter

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

This powerpoint presentation encourages students to analyse two of Turner’s greatest paintings: The Slave Ship and The Fighting Temeraire. Each painting is a great comment on the British Empire and its Slave Trade. A good cross-curricular link!

IB History, new syllabus resources

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

A new page outlining how I plan to teach the new International Baccalaureate syllabus as from September 2008, complete with links and resources.