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Be sure to read background material
- First settlement to Queen Elisabeth
- Celtic inhabitants - the celtic invasion – the Romans – the Anglo Saxons- the Vikings
- The early history.
- The Norman invasion - The Magna Carta. (Robin Hood) The age of contrasts – the Renaissance.
- Shakespeare. Henry VIII, The movie. The other Boleyn girl.
- Queen Elisabeth 1st coronation, speech to the people.
- And the civil war to the first world war. James 1, Civil war. Guy Fawkes, the commonwealth and restoration.
- The British empire. For an overview look at timeline from BBC.
Day two from civil war to First World War:
- Divide class into groups of 4
- Each group gets 3 topics from paper From the civil war to the first world war
- Look at these videos for clues:
- The revolution
- Florence Nightingale
- Nelson and the battle at Trafalgar
- Interactive map of the battle at Trafalgar
- Queen Victoria’s love for Albert
- The gunpowder plot
- Each groups finds and learns the material – teach group
- One from each group joins other students and form new groups – teach each other
