4. Key Stage 3 Norman Conquest of England- Election Preparation Lesson

This is the fourth lesson in the Norman Conquest series of lessons, which explore how William the Conqueror was able to take control of England.

This lesson aims to allow students to work as a group to create an ‘Election Campaign’ for their chosen claimant to the throne , which they will present to the class in the next lesson. This also provides and opportunity to develop students oracy skills both individually and as a group.

You will need to bring lots of card and paper for each group to use to create their campaigns

This resource is a power point including the full lesson and all resources needed. It includes:

• A title slide (no need for students to write this down as students will have it from the previous lesson)
• clear smart differentiated learning objectives
• starter- 5 quick fire questions to recall knowledge from the previous lesson
• Activity- students work as a group to create an election campaign including a speech, posters, flyers, rosettes, badges and a motto. It is important to encourage students to focus on their oracy and how they communicate woth others in the group- please see slide 6 for help on how to do this. Usually, I would print this off for students to have in their books at the start of the year.
• Plenary- students share 3 things on what they have learnt, what they feel/the group they have done well, what they would like to learn more about and knowledge they didn’t have at the start of the lesson.
• Homework. students finish creating their election campaigns ready for next lesson