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Lesson sequence: Life in a Medieval Village - taster lesson
Article
This series of lessons has been designed to make gaining knowledge of medieval rural life engaging for students and to teach them how good historical fiction is constructed. Students learn how to write a story about life in the fourteenth-century Suffolk village of Walsham and to do so successfully they...
Lesson sequence: Life in a Medieval Village - taster lesson
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Magna Carta Enquiry: free lesson sequence
Magna Carta Scheme of Work
The following sequence of lessons is designed to build on pupils' existing knowledge and understanding of the medieval period. In particular it is assumed that pupils will already have an outline knowledge of the main features of medieval kingship and how monarchs exercised their power.
In determining the focus for...
Magna Carta Enquiry: free lesson sequence
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Lesson sequence: The Normans - taster lesson
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This series of lessons investigates the impact of the Norman Conquest. It does this by getting students to question Simon Schama’s interpretation that the Normans brought a ‘truck-load of trouble’ to England. The sequence is five lessons long, with the first four lessons delivering the content and the fifth wrapping up...
Lesson sequence: The Normans - taster lesson
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Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest
HA Mini Teacher Fellowship 2020–21
In the summer of 2020 a group of teachers took part in a mini teacher fellowship on medieval perceptions of conquest. Teachers took part in a two-day course led by academic historians Dr Emily Winkler of Oxford University and Dr Owain Jones of Bangor University. Sadly, due to the covid...
Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: The People of 1381
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2022
This Teacher Fellowship programme focused on developing the teaching of medieval history and the history of revolt, popular protest, power and the people, in partnership with The People of 1381 project.
The project is focused on revealing new insights into the diverse range of people who played a part in...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: The People of 1381
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Free Teacher Fellowship lesson sequences
Multipage Article
Finding the time to research, plan and produce thoughtful, appropriately demanding and well crafted sequences of lessons is a challenge. At the Historical Association we are supporting our members by carefully collating a number of free fully resourced lesson sequences that have been produced through funded projects.
The Teacher Fellowship programmes operated...
Free Teacher Fellowship lesson sequences
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The later Middle Ages: Teacher Fellowship programme outcomes
Multipage Article
These resources were developed as part of the Historical Association’s inaugural Teacher Fellowship Programme funded by Agincourt 600. The programme was led by Ian Dawson and focused on developing teachers’ knowledge of late medieval history and translating this to the classroom.
Featuring academic input from Professor Anne Curry, Professor Michael...
The later Middle Ages: Teacher Fellowship programme outcomes
