Choose any of the following tasks which will earn you one KMS Bacc Knowledge point.
56.1 Literacy 1960s Book Review
Read a book set in the 1960s such as: The Wednesday Wars, Fallout, Carrie’s War, Wonderstruck, Harriet the Spy. Write a review about your favourite.
56.1 Literacy Facts of Life
Write 10 facts about how life has changed since the 1960s.
56.1 Literacy Dear Diary
Imagine you are a a child living in the 1960s. Write a diary entry for a typical day.
Choose any of the following tasks which will earn you two KMS Bacc Knowledge points.
56.2 Literacy WW2 Biography
Write a biography on a significant individual from the 1960s.
56.2 Literacy Life in 60s Britain
Watch this video of photographs and film clips taken during the 1960s in Britain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH0kvxCfvG8 (‘Life in 60s Britain’) .
While you are watching the video, talk to an adult and make some notes about the following:
What do you notice about the clothes people are wearing?
What do you notice about the toys that children are playing with?
What is the same or different about your life?
Choose the following task which will earn you three KMS Bacc Knowledge points.
56.3 Literacy A Bus Journey That Changed the World
Write a recount of Rosa Parks’ bus journey from her perspective.