Battle of Hastings : Who should be king?

A full lesson on who should be the next King of England in 1066. Through the enquiry of ‘Who should be King in 1066’? The aim of the lesson is for students to understand who could take the throne in 1066 by evaluating their strengths, weaknesses and how they could claim the throne. Students do this through watching a video with guided, differentiated questions and then creating their own factfiles on each of the contentenders. Finally students will act as the Witan and make a judgement of who they think should be the next King of England using the information they have gathered in the lesson. The plenary is a review of students’ progress using a summerising pyramid.

This lesson is a KS3 lesson with clear objectives, a key enquiry question and differentiated resources; including challenge tasks and scaffolds throughout. All information sheets and resources are included on the slides for a** download and go** lesson. It downloads in a powerpoint format so can be adapted easily.

This lesson includes:

• An engaging starter
• A video and information sheet to gather knowledge of the contenders
• Differentiated questions and tasks to consolidate knowledge
• Factfile templates
• A final written task for students to create their own judgement with a scaffolded structure and challenge question
• A review based plenary to measure progress.