Black History English PSHE Citizenship Cross Curricular Diane Abbott Whole Lesson KS3 GCSE

This is a Black Histroy & English Cross Curricular Lesson on Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected as an MP. It consits of a page long biography detailing who she is and some of her achievements and contains some articles written about her in the British Press.

We have written some quick questions, some comprehension questions based on the text, some discussion points for you to go through with your groups and some extended writing activities which include writing newspaper articles, speeches, interviews, poster designing and diary entries.

Answers to the quick questions are on the final page. Suitable for Citizenship, PSHE lessons on rights and responsibilities, democracy and diversity. Desinged for GCSE, but suitable for KS3 also. Please read through the articles carefully before distributing to your class it talks about the racism and online abuse Diane suffered, which some may be uncomfortable with.

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