Christmas lesson for KS3 students
The lesson explores:
How people celebrate Christmas Day
The meaning behind popular traditions
Biblical accounts of the Nativity
Christmas celebrations across the world
This is a short lesson that explores the enquiry question: What was life like for British convicts in Australia?
It use sources and comes with a source handout as well as a detailed lesson plan.
Suitable for KS3 students
This lesson explores how to approach and structure an A-Level essay. I used Mary Brown’s article ‘From Muddleton Manor to Clarity Cathedral’ to inform the creation of this lesson. It comes with a generic A-Level essay planning sheet to match.
It explores what it means to set a criteria in the introduction of an essay, to substantiate the basis of a judgement.
It explores how to use topic sentences to guide the read through the essay
It includes an activity that gets students to base their paragraphs around a point that contributes to their argument and allows then to practice selecting appropriate evidence in a suitable quantity.
The lesson used a question from the Edexcel A-Level course: The rise and fall of fascism in Italy, c1911–46
However the lesson can quickly be adapted to any course to show students how to move from GCSE style answers to A-Level essays.