Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount.
Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount.
A Guided Reading Task from the set of 16 ‘Computer Science’ Guided Reading challenges used by Wolsey Academy.
Each task involves reading an extract from a piece of computer science scholarship, creating a sub title for each paragraph and noting key points. It ends with a summarisation task.
It allows students to engage with high end literature and developing not just their reading skills and subject specific vocabulary but engages them in contemporary issues and controversies.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
The 16 are as follows:
GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma.
Hidden Figures – The African American women that contributed to the NASA Apollo program.
Moore’s Law – the scientist who helped developed the microchip and his (prescient) prediction on their future development.
Idea’s Man – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, on the impact of Windows
Game Over – the development and origins of the Game Boy
Society & The Internet – Positive and Negative Impacts
The Blockchain Future – A look at the impact of blockchain
Covid19 – A look at how technology and tracking apps helped (or hindered) in the fight against Covid19
Computing with Quantum Cats – An exploration of the nature of quantum computing
SpaceX Starship – how space x are using computing to bring down the price of space travel
Facial Reognition – how this technology promises to transform the world, for the better and for the worse.
The Digital Divide – a deep study into the two tier world digitisation has created
Artificial Intelligence – Wired’s top science writer gives an overview of the impact of AI
The Metaverse – Billions are being poured into this technology by the Tech Giants – but what is it?
They Tell Me This Is How The World Ends – Financial Times Book the Year 2021 – the threat posed by hacking and cyberthreats.
Chip War – Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 – How microchips are at the centre of a new fight for superpower dominance
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
We hope it helps.
A Guided Reading Task from the set of 16 ‘Computer Science’ Guided Reading challenges used by Wolsey Academy.
Each task involves reading an extract from a piece of computer science scholarship, creating a sub title for each paragraph and noting key points. It ends with a summarisation task.
It allows students to engage with high end literature and developing not just their reading skills and subject specific vocabulary but engages them in contemporary issues and controversies.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
The 16 are as follows:
GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma.
Hidden Figures – The African American women that contributed to the NASA Apollo program.
Moore’s Law – the scientist who helped developed the microchip and his (prescient) prediction on their future development.
Idea’s Man – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, on the impact of Windows
Game Over – the development and origins of the Game Boy
Society & The Internet – Positive and Negative Impacts
The Blockchain Future – A look at the impact of blockchain
Covid19 – A look at how technology and tracking apps helped (or hindered) in the fight against Covid19
Computing with Quantum Cats – An exploration of the nature of quantum computing
SpaceX Starship – how space x are using computing to bring down the price of space travel
Facial Reognition – how this technology promises to transform the world, for the better and for the worse.
The Digital Divide – a deep study into the two tier world digitisation has created
Artificial Intelligence – Wired’s top science writer gives an overview of the impact of AI
The Metaverse – Billions are being poured into this technology by the Tech Giants – but what is it?
They Tell Me This Is How The World Ends – Financial Times Book the Year 2021 – the threat posed by hacking and cyberthreats.
Chip War – Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 – How microchips are at the centre of a new fight for superpower dominance
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
We hope it helps.
A Guided Reading Task from the set of 16 ‘Computer Science’ Guided Reading challenges used by Wolsey Academy.
Each task involves reading an extract from a piece of computer science scholarship, creating a sub title for each paragraph and noting key points. It ends with a summarisation task.
It allows students to engage with high end literature and developing not just their reading skills and subject specific vocabulary but engages them in contemporary issues and controversies.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
The 16 are as follows:
GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma.
Hidden Figures – The African American women that contributed to the NASA Apollo program.
Moore’s Law – the scientist who helped developed the microchip and his (prescient) prediction on their future development.
Idea’s Man – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, on the impact of Windows
Game Over – the development and origins of the Game Boy
Society & The Internet – Positive and Negative Impacts
The Blockchain Future – A look at the impact of blockchain
Covid19 – A look at how technology and tracking apps helped (or hindered) in the fight against Covid19
Computing with Quantum Cats – An exploration of the nature of quantum computing
SpaceX Starship – how space x are using computing to bring down the price of space travel
Facial Reognition – how this technology promises to transform the world, for the better and for the worse.
The Digital Divide – a deep study into the two tier world digitisation has created
Artificial Intelligence – Wired’s top science writer gives an overview of the impact of AI
The Metaverse – Billions are being poured into this technology by the Tech Giants – but what is it?
They Tell Me This Is How The World Ends – Financial Times Book the Year 2021 – the threat posed by hacking and cyberthreats.
Chip War – Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 – How microchips are at the centre of a new fight for superpower dominance
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
We hope it helps.
A Guided Reading Task from the set of 16 ‘Computer Science’ Guided Reading challenges used by Wolsey Academy.
Each task involves reading an extract from a piece of computer science scholarship, creating a sub title for each paragraph and noting key points. It ends with a summarisation task.
It allows students to engage with high end literature and developing not just their reading skills and subject specific vocabulary but engages them in contemporary issues and controversies.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
The 16 are as follows:
GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma.
Hidden Figures – The African American women that contributed to the NASA Apollo program.
Moore’s Law – the scientist who helped developed the microchip and his (prescient) prediction on their future development.
Idea’s Man – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, on the impact of Windows
Game Over – the development and origins of the Game Boy
Society & The Internet – Positive and Negative Impacts
The Blockchain Future – A look at the impact of blockchain
Covid19 – A look at how technology and tracking apps helped (or hindered) in the fight against Covid19
Computing with Quantum Cats – An exploration of the nature of quantum computing
SpaceX Starship – how space x are using computing to bring down the price of space travel
Facial Reognition – how this technology promises to transform the world, for the better and for the worse.
The Digital Divide – a deep study into the two tier world digitisation has created
Artificial Intelligence – Wired’s top science writer gives an overview of the impact of AI
The Metaverse – Billions are being poured into this technology by the Tech Giants – but what is it?
They Tell Me This Is How The World Ends – Financial Times Book the Year 2021 – the threat posed by hacking and cyberthreats.
Chip War – Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 – How microchips are at the centre of a new fight for superpower dominance
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
We hope it helps.
A Guided Reading Task from the set of 16 ‘Computer Science’ Guided Reading challenges used by Wolsey Academy.
Each task involves reading an extract from a piece of computer science scholarship, creating a sub title for each paragraph and noting key points. It ends with a summarisation task.
It allows students to engage with high end literature and developing not just their reading skills and subject specific vocabulary but engages them in contemporary issues and controversies.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
The 16 are as follows:
GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma.
Hidden Figures – The African American women that contributed to the NASA Apollo program.
Moore’s Law – the scientist who helped developed the microchip and his (prescient) prediction on their future development.
Idea’s Man – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, on the impact of Windows
Game Over – the development and origins of the Game Boy
Society & The Internet – Positive and Negative Impacts
The Blockchain Future – A look at the impact of blockchain
Covid19 – A look at how technology and tracking apps helped (or hindered) in the fight against Covid19
Computing with Quantum Cats – An exploration of the nature of quantum computing
SpaceX Starship – how space x are using computing to bring down the price of space travel
Facial Reognition – how this technology promises to transform the world, for the better and for the worse.
The Digital Divide – a deep study into the two tier world digitisation has created
Artificial Intelligence – Wired’s top science writer gives an overview of the impact of AI
The Metaverse – Billions are being poured into this technology by the Tech Giants – but what is it?
They Tell Me This Is How The World Ends – Financial Times Book the Year 2021 – the threat posed by hacking and cyberthreats.
Chip War – Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 – How microchips are at the centre of a new fight for superpower dominance
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
We hope it helps.
A Guided Reading Task from the set of 16 ‘Computer Science’ Guided Reading challenges used by Wolsey Academy.
Each task involves reading an extract from a piece of computer science scholarship, creating a sub title for each paragraph and noting key points. It ends with a summarisation task.
It allows students to engage with high end literature and developing not just their reading skills and subject specific vocabulary but engages them in contemporary issues and controversies.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
The 16 are as follows:
GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma.
GCHQ – A look at the beginnings of computing the Second World War, Alan Turing and Enigma.
Hidden Figures – The African American women that contributed to the NASA Apollo program.
Moore’s Law – the scientist who helped developed the microchip and his (prescient) prediction on their future development.
Idea’s Man – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, on the impact of Windows
Game Over – the development and origins of the Game Boy
Society & The Internet – Positive and Negative Impacts
The Blockchain Future – A look at the impact of blockchain
Covid19 – A look at how technology and tracking apps helped (or hindered) in the fight against Covid19
Computing with Quantum Cats – An exploration of the nature of quantum computing
SpaceX Starship – how space x are using computing to bring down the price of space travel
Facial Reognition – how this technology promises to transform the world, for the better and for the worse.
The Digital Divide – a deep study into the two tier world digitisation has created
Artificial Intelligence – Wired’s top science writer gives an overview of the impact of AI
The Metaverse – Billions are being poured into this technology by the Tech Giants – but what is it?
They Tell Me This Is How The World Ends – Financial Times Book the Year 2021 – the threat posed by hacking and cyberthreats.
Chip War – Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 – How microchips are at the centre of a new fight for superpower dominance
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Four presentations (3 of which come with YouTube video walkthroughs!) on pedagogy and teaching. An ideal resource for anyone running a pedagogy workshop/staff training/CPD.
The four topics are:
Doing Middle Leadership Right by Bawden, Hickin & Macis-Riley
Intelligent Accountability by David Didau
The Writing Revolution By Judith Hochman & Natalie Wexler
Teaching creative and critical thinking in schools by Russell Grigg and Helen Lewis
In addition to these fantastic approaches to teaching this bundle also provides you with over 200 lesson activity templates - easy to modify - and a sperate PowerPoint featuring student feedback forms - an easy win to increase the engagement and learning in your lessons!
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Four presentations (3 of which come with YouTube video walkthroughs!) on pedagogy and teaching. Ideal resource for anyone running a pedagogy workshop/staff training/CPD.
The four topics are:
Doing Middle Leadership Right by Bawden, Hickin & Macis-Riley
Intelligent Accountability by David Didau
The Writing Revolution By Judith Hochman & Natalie Wexler
Teaching creative and critical thinking in schools by Russell Grigg and Helen Lewis
Hope they help.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
This PowerPoint is all you need to deliver an effective CPD/Training session to your staff on the crucial issues raised in Doing Middle Leadership Right’ by Bawden, Hickin and Macis-Riley.
For a the accompanying video please visit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlHEwaOEbtc Hope it helps.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
This PowerPoint is all you need to deliver an effective CPD/Training session to your staff on the crucial issue of critical thinking. It talks you through the meaning of the word, why it is important and how it can be applied. It has been in part inspired by reading of ‘Teaching creative and critical thinking in schools’ by Russell Grigg and Helen Lewis.
In the resources section it includes a number of templates that are ready to be printed/used/adapted by your staff as they sit fit.
Hope it helps.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
First World War Project Make a lesson: Teach a lesson
A quick project lesson on the First World War, ideal for cover lessons or when you’ve got a lot of marking to do!
Students can select one of the following three topics to create their own lesson about – ready to teach the following lesson.
Battle of the Somme
Trench Conditions
Battle of Tannenberg
The Red Baron
Also gives the students an appreciation for how lessons are constructed and a guided group work activity with plenty of examples. The quiz-quiz-trade demonstration at the beginning also adds an interesting element to the lesson (based on other areas of the First World War – but the idea is they create their own QQT on the First World War)
Lesson consists of:
Intro and set up
Quiz-Quiz-Trade demonstration (and 6 keyword cards to do it with)
Outline of lesson creation task and 3 x fact sheets to assist.
Included are templates for the QQT and cartoon stip activity option, QQT examples and fact sheets.
Hope it helps.,
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
US Civil War Project Make a lesson: Teach a lesson
A quick project lesson on the American Civil War, ideal for cover lessons or when you’ve got a lot of marking to do!
Students can select one of the following three topics to create their own lesson about – ready to teach the following lesson.
Causes of the Civil War
Events of the Civil War
Consequences of the Civil War
Also gives the students an appreciation for how lessons are constructed and a guided group work activity with plenty of examples. The quiz-quiz-trade demonstration at the beginning also adds an interesting element to the lesson (based on the Founding Fathers – but the idea is they create their own QQT on the Civil War!)
Lesson consists of:
Intro and set up
Quiz-Quiz-Trade demonstration (and 6 keyword cards to do it with)
Outline of lesson creation task and 3 x fact sheets to assist.
Included are templates for the QQT and cartoon stip activity option, QQT examples and fact sheets.
Hope it helps.,
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
A quick project lesson on the Romans, ideal for cover lessons or when you’ve got a lot of marking to do!
Students can select one of the following three topics to create their own lesson about – ready to teach the following lesson.
Hadrian’s Wall
Boudicca
Gladiators
Also gives the students an appreciation for how lessons are constructed and a guided group work activity with plenty of examples. The quiz-quiz-trade demonstration at the beginning also adds an interesting element to the lesson.
Lesson consists of:
Intro and set up
Quiz-Quiz-Trade demonstration (and 6 keyword cards to do it with)
Outline of lesson creation task and 3 x fact sheets to assist.
Included are templates for the QQT and cartoon stip activity option, QQT examples and fact sheets.
Hope it helps.,
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science).
All are available at Wolsey Academy.
Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract.
The extracts are as follows:
Year 7:
Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article)
Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article)
Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons
Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article)
Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel
Year 8:
Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn
Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article)
Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday
Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy
Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions
Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis,
Year 9:
Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland
Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators
Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron
Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan
Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition
Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought.
KS4:
Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich
Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War
Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam
Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin.
Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs
Download them all at once at Wolsey Academy
Wolsey Academy is a non-profit, with every penny we make from the sale of resources going to one of our charity partners (Details at our website).
If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities.
Hope it helps.
This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science).
All are available at Wolsey Academy
Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract.
The extracts are as follows:
Year 7:
Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article)
Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article)
Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons
Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article)
Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel
Year 8:
Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn
Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article)
Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday
Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy
Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions
Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis,
Year 9:
Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland
Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators
Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron
Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan
Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition
Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought.
KS4:
Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich
Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War
Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam
Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin.
Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs
Download them all at once at Wolsey Academy
Wolsey Academy is a non-profit, with every penny we make from the sale of resources going to one of our charity partners (Detailed at our website)
If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities.
Hope it helps.
This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science).
All are available at Wolsey Academy.
Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract.
The extracts are as follows:
Year 7:
Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article)
Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article)
Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons
Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article)
Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel
Year 8:
Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn
Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article)
Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday
Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy
Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions
Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis,
Year 9:
Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland
Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators
Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron
Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan
Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition
Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought.
KS4:
Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich
Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War
Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam
Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin.
Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs
If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities.
Hope it helps.
This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science).
All are available at Wolsey Academy.
Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract.
The extracts are as follows:
Year 7:
Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article)
Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article)
Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons
Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article)
Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel
Year 8:
Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn
Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article)
Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday
Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy
Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions
Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis,
Year 9:
Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland
Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators
Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron
Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan
Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition
Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought.
KS4:
Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich
Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War
Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam
Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin.
Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs
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This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science).
All are available at Wolsey Academy.
Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract.
The extracts are as follows:
Year 7:
Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article)
Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article)
Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons
Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article)
Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel
Year 8:
Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn
Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article)
Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday
Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy
Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions
Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis,
Year 9:
Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland
Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators
Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron
Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan
Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition
Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought.
KS4:
Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich
Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War
Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam
Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin.
Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs
Download them all at once at Wolsey Academy
Wolsey Academy is a non-profit, with every penny we make from the sale of resources going to one of our charity partners (Detailed at our website)
If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities.
Hope it helps.
This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science).
All are available at Wolsey Academy.
Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract.
The extracts are as follows:
Year 7:
Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article)
Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article)
Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons
Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article)
Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel
Year 8:
Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn
Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article)
Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday
Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy
Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions
Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis,
Year 9:
Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland
Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators
Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron
Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan
Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition
Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought.
KS4:
Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich
Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War
Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam
Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin.
Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs
Wolsey Academy is a non-profit, with every penny we make from the sale of resources going to one of our charity partners (Detailed at our website (Google us).
If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities.
Hope it helps.
This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science).
All are available at Wolsey Academy.
Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract.
The extracts are as follows:
Year 7:
Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article)
Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article)
Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons
Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article)
Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel
Year 8:
Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn
Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article)
Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday
Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy
Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions
Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis,
Year 9:
Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland
Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators
Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron
Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan
Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition
Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought.
KS4:
Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich
Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War
Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam
Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin.
Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs
If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities.
Hope it helps.