The Norman Conquest: How Did Harold Really Die?

Part of the Norman Conquest SOW. In this lesson we consider why Historians need to be careful about the reliability of sources. After some thinking exercises on the reliability of information and how people can have different views of the same events we look at a number of sources that document the death of Harold at Hastings and complete an activity of how reliable these sources are. We finish the lesson with a writing task which has a structure strip to support the pupils recording a good written response to the question “Explain, using evidence, what the most likely cause of Death was for Harold Godwinson at Hastings”.

Included in the lesson is

True or False retrieval starter
thinking exercises around reliability and perception
Source reliability task with information sheet and worksheet
Video clips to support the source task.
Fully supported written task using structure strip.

Hope this helps.

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