Well it’s Week Eleven…My students are absolutely shattered from exhaustion; so I decided to modify their English lessons with some persuasion tasks with a twist.
Enter documentaries.
Documentaries, as we know, are based on an opinion on a topic that are deeply explored. It always surprises me how many kids don’t watch documentaries; to be fair though, I remember sitting and watching an hour long…
Today we looked at the Viking expansion and how the Vikings used Drakkars and Knarrs as means of travel and warships! Below is an image of my whiteboard; for differentiation I asked students to create an annotated drawing of both vessels as o read through the historical information! A lot of fun – the kids all loved creating their own Viking ships and they loved the annotations, they felt it made…
Anne Boleyn is by far one of the women I would invite to a dinner party. History paints her as many things; strong-willed, strange, confident, and of course in having a sixth finger! I love the Tudor Period, with the drama of daily life in court and the turbulent relationships of Henry VIII. What a guy… Alison Weir writes through the eyes of Anne Boleyn before her time in the English court and…
