OCR Ancient History: Aeneas, Romulus and 10 mark questions

This lesson is designed with the new OCR Ancient History 9-1 GCSE spec in mind.

All worksheets referenced here and in the lesson are included as Powerpoint slides within the .ppt file and can be printed off and given to students.

Brief summaries of the Aeneas’ travels and the story of Romulus and Remus begin the lesson and the first activity involves dual-coding these stories to help commit them to memory.

The lesson then turns towards how to answer the 10 mark questions that appear in the first half (period study) of each of the two GCSE papers. A Passage from Livy about Aeneas’ troubles with Turnus is the focus of the first question where students are taken through step by step guidance and then a model answer.

Then it is students’ turn to have a go but this time they are given a passage from Livy about Romulus and Remus’ quarrel. They must follow the step by step guidance to answer the question in 10 minutes. They are then presented with another model answer and must use this to improve their own and then explain how they improved their answer.

The lesson finishes with students needing to explain how to be successful in answering a 10 mark question and then as a plenary they are asked to match abstract images to what they have learnt in the lesson so that you can check their understanding before they leave.