December Assembly

This resource contains a 70-slide, simple text presentation on the month of December. It is ideal for when you have a last minute assembly to do or unexpected tutor group time. The resource also contains suggestions for use and a set of worksheets for follow up activities. The follow up activities include:

reflective and evaluative tasks
a research task
the creation of a quiz based on the PowerPoint

The presentation focuses on:

How December got its name, things associated with December – flowers, Zodiac signs, quotes.

Special Days – Advent, Human Rights Day, St Nicholas’ Day, Bodhi Day, Christmas day, Saint Stephen’s Day, New Year’s Eve, Hogmanay

Notable Birthdays - Walt Disney, Johann Christian Bach, Mary, Queen of Scots, John Milton, Frank Sinatra, Edvard Munch, Taylor Swift, Nostradamus, Gustave Eiffel, Paul Getty, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Austen, Steven Spielberg, Joseph Stalin, Giacomo Puccini, Maurice and Robin Gibb, Alexander I, Sir Isaac Newton, Mao Tse-tung, Louis Pasteur, William Gladstone, Rudyard Kipling, Tiger Woods, Henri Matisse, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley

Inventions, Discoveries, Launches - Dr Pepper served for first time, The Ford Motor Company introduced first moving assembly line, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 launched in Europe, first Sunday newspaper the Observer published, first episode of Coronation Street broadcast, first Nobel Prizes awarded, Titanic movie premiered, premier of Gone with the Wind, first colour television went on sale, Dickens Christmas Carol published, Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales, first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica published

Notable Events and Happenings - Napoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of France, new Saint Paul’s Cathedral opened, the world’s first heart transplant completed, UK’s first motorway opened, first traffic lights installed, Muhammad Ali fought last boxing match, Francis Drake set sail around the world in Golden Hind, Wilbur and Orville Wright made first powered aeroplane flight, first performance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, BBC World Service began broadcasting, nuclear power was first used, Mayflower Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Charles de Gaulle elected President of France, Lech Walesa became Poland’s first elected president, Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, Thomas Becket assassinated.

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