We are going to use a timeline to see when the Anglo-Saxon period was.
When do you think they belong on the timeline?
Look at this ancient map of Britain, in trios discuss what you notice about the map and answer these questions:
Where do you think the Scots came from?
What do we call this place today?
Nowadays, what do we call the place labelled 'Picts' on the map?
Have you been to any of these places?
What is our key question for this unit? - Was the Anglo-Saxon period really a Dark Age?
What evidence have we discovered so far to begin to answer the question?
What can we add to our evidence journal (below)? We'll revisit this journal regularly over the lessons in this unit
What other aspects of Anglo-Saxon life do you think we'll explore over this unit to add to our evidence journal?
What were the similarities and differences between the reasoning for the invasion of the Romans and Anglo-Saxons?