History - Guided Reading Booklet - 6 articles - Y8

A guided reading booklet for Year 8 students.

Each extract is to be read and a ‘guided reading activity’ (summarise each paragraph and then summarise the whole text). When the entire booklet is completed they can receive a certificate.

This year 8 guide includes the following extracts:

1. Social: Life on a sugar plantation – Andrew Stuart, Sugar in the Blood.

2. Social (Bonus): Life and marriage in Industrial Britain - Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn.

3. Political: Peterloo Massacre – The Guardian UK

4. Economics: The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday: Britain and the Making of the Modern World

5. Armed Conflict: Battle of Patna (India) - Dalrymple, William, The Anarchy.

6. Religious: Columbus in America – John Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire

7. Science: Chicago & The Mid-West. William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis

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