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8A2, 8A3, 8B3, 8B4 - The Luddites/Swingers

posted ‎‎Apr 27, 2009 7:00 AM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw


Please create a poster encouraging people to join either the Luddites or the Swingers. Remember that these were secret organizations, so they would not meet publicly! Their symbol was often a large hammer (the Luddites called theirs 'Old Enoch')

The following links may help you:
  1. Schoolhistory.org.uk - The Luddites
  2. The National Archives - Who were the Luddites?
  3. Spartacus - The Luddites

Due dates:
  • 8A2 - Wednesday 6 May 2009
  • 8A3 - Friday 8 May 2009
  • 8B3 - Monday 18 May 2009
  • 8B4 - Tuesday 5 May 2009

| Attachments: luddites.png

8A1 History - The Luddites

posted ‎‎Apr 27, 2009 6:43 AM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw   [ updated ‎‎Apr 27, 2009 7:02 AM‎‎ ]

Please complete all of the questions at the end of the play we looked at in class about the Luddites (including the poster!)

You can find the play at the link below:
Luddites Play

| Attachments: luddites.png

8A4 - Random History lesson!

posted ‎‎Apr 24, 2009 1:51 AM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw

In today's lesson we're going to be look at the Union Flag and the 'making of the UK'. Here's what I'd like you to do:
  1. Click here to look at the Union Flag as it is today. Can you name the parts that relate to the different countries?
  2. To find out about the making of the Union Flag we're going to do a short online lesson. Click here to access the lesson and do the quiz!
  3. Play this Fling the Teacher! game about the Making of the UK.
  4. Create your own arcade game using ClassTools.net. The questions should all be about what you have learned today! :-)


| Attachments: making_of_uk.jpg

19th century factories - diary entry

posted ‎‎Apr 20, 2009 4:57 AM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw   [ updated ‎‎Apr 20, 2009 5:13 AM‎‎ ]

Please complete the diary entry you started as a 13 year-old working in a factory during the Industrial Revolution. This is due week beginning 27 April 2009.

Below are the relevant Powerpoint slides from the lesson and pages from the textbook. :-)

(click on images to enlarge)





 
 
 
 



| Attachments: Slide1.PNG Slide5.PNG factory_life_01.jpg factory_life_02.jpg factory_life_03.jpg factory_life_04.jpg

The Domestic System - storyboard

posted ‎‎Mar 30, 2009 11:55 PM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw   [ updated ‎‎Apr 1, 2009 3:57 AM‎‎ ]

Please complete the storyboard you began in this week's lesson. This is due for the first lesson back after the Easter holidays!

Here are the resources you had in the lesson to help you:
 



| Attachments: domestic_system_01.jpg domestic_system_02.jpg

Analysis of Domestic System source

posted ‎‎Mar 24, 2009 8:35 AM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw

Please finish the work you started in the lesson analysing the source from 1750. Use the image below to help you (click to enlarge!)


You need to use the 3C's strategy:

Content - what can you see in the image? (just describe the source!)

Context - what was happening at the time this source was made? (what do you know from your own knowledge that will help?)

Comment - what is the Content saying about the Context? (did the person who made this source think the Domestic System was a good or a bad idea?




| Attachments: workshop.jpg

Great Fire of London

posted ‎‎Feb 9, 2009 6:51 AM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw

Please finish off the work we started today on the Great Fire of London (1666).

Tasks:


Resources (click to enlarge):
  

Due: after half-term!

| Attachments: fire-marks.jpg instructions.png regulations_for_london.jpg

Year 8 History - Great Plague of 1665

posted ‎‎Feb 3, 2009 5:40 AM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw   [ updated ‎‎Feb 3, 2009 7:33 AM‎‎ ]

Please finish off the work from today's lesson if it is still incomplete.

1. Copy and label the image of a plague doctor into your exercise book (click on the image below for a larger version):


2. What did people at the time think caused the plague? Use the information below and your own knowledge from the lesson.

3. What do historians and scientists nowadays think caused the plague?


4. Use the evidence from Samuel Pepys' diary to answer question 2 (both below)


Due: Week beginning 9 February 2009

Finished? Play this game!







| Attachments: 31_august.jpg causes_of_plague.jpg fling_teacher.jpg modern_causes_of_plague.jpg plague_doctor.jpg question_2.jpg

8B3 Oliver Cromwell homework

posted ‎‎Feb 2, 2009 2:53 AM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw   [ updated ‎‎Feb 2, 2009 2:57 AM‎‎ ]

As you managed to miss a lesson, you can catch up for homework! Please read through the play at the link below and answer the questions at the end:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11572079/Cromwell-Play

Due: Monday 9 February 2009

| Attachments: cromwell.jpg

Oliver Cromwell homework

posted ‎‎Jan 28, 2009 5:04 AM‎‎ by Mr Belshaw

8A2 and 8A3: Please make sure you have the following quesitons completed by next week's lesson:

1. Was religion important in the army?
2. How did people get the ideas of religion and government to the people?
3. Who did Cromwell believe should keep power?
4. What was the Commonwealth?
5. What was the Republic?
6. Why was the navy important?
7. Who were the Rump and what did Cromwell do with them?
8. Why did Cromwell not become king and what was he called instead?
9. Why did people like Cromwell?

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