Homeworks:
| Year 7 Revision Guide December Exams.pdf |
Homeworks for 2017-18:
Homework for Monday, Jan 8th:
1. Make sure you have finished the activities on castles.
2. Make sure you have put the Hereward the Wake story into the correct order. Make sure you save the correct version of this story.
Homework for Monday, Dec 18th:
Finish the worksheet on William's problems.
Homework for Monday, Dec 11th:
1. Finish the How did Harold die worksheet.
2. Finish the Bayeux Tapestry worksheet.
Homework for Monday, Nov 27th:
1. Finish the bird'e eye map using page 18 of the textbook.
2. Now plan out your eight scenes of your storyboard using the information from pages 19 and 20 of the textbook and produce your own storyboard.
Homework for Monday, Nov 20th:
1. Finish the charts on the soldiers.
2. Do the activities on the preparations for the Battle which are on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Nov 13th:
Read the section in the textbook on the Battle of Stamford Bridge (p14-15) and use that to complete the factfile on the battle (copy on the Moodle)
Homework for Monday, Nov 6th:
1. You have each been given a candidate for the throne of England (Enaya, Jorge and Nicolas you will be working together: Enaya is doing William, Jorge doing Harold Godwinson and Nicolas doing Harald Hardraada). You should produce a Keynote presentation slide on your candidate to explain why he should be king. Include:
See me before the end of the week if you have any problems.
Homework for Monday, Oct 23rd:
1. Make sure you have finished the spy chart
2. Write up your own spy report based on your findings explaining to William how easy you think it would be to invade England.
3. Why invade England? Use the information sheet on the Moodle to explain why it was worth invading England.
4. Do the worksheet "Who were the Normans?"
Homework for Tuesday, October 17th:
Make sure you know how to do the following (use your notes and the Moodle on History skills to help you)
Finish the activities on chronology and the Middle Ages using the sheet on the Moodle. Do questions 1 & 2 on both sheets..
Please check all homework has been finished fully.
Homework for Monday, October 2nd:
Use pages 142-145 of your textbook and the evidence sheet to answer questions 1-6 on page 145 of the book. Make sure you give detailed answers to each question.
Homework for Monday, Sept 25th:
Answer the following questions on the body in the ice mystery.
1. When we found the body, what questions did you ask?
2. Using all the evidence, piece together your version of what you think happened and how the man died. Back up your ideas with evidence.
Homework for Monday, Sept 18th:
1. Make sure you have finished all the questions on "Who lives in this room?"
2. Read the material on the Murder Mystery on the Moodle. The do questions 1-4
Homework for Monday, Sept 11th:
1. Do a title page for "What is History?", include a few drawings and the title
2. Use the information we saw and discussed in class to write a detailed paragraph explaining "What is History?"
Use the sheet and mindmap to help you.
Homeworks for 2016-17:
Homework for Monday, January 16th:
1. Finish the essay, ready to be handed in on Monday,
Homework for Thursday, Dec 22nd:
1. Finish the storyboard about the Battle of Hastings using the information on page 20 of the textbook.
2. Use the information from the video and the textbook to add any further points to your list of the reasons why William won the battle. Remember to use the following categories:
i) Reasons to do with Preparations
ii) Reasons to do with Leadership, Strategy and Tactics
iii) Reasons to do with mistakes made by Harold
iv) Reasons to do with Luck
Homework for Monday, Dec 19th:
1. Do your version of the aerial map on p18 of your text book.
2. Make sure you have finished the preparations chart using the information on the timeline and pages 16-18 of the textbook.
3. Use the pictures on page 19 to do the first half of the storyboard about the battle.
Homework for Thursday, Dec 15th:
Please fill in this exam review questionnaire.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 24th:
Revision for the exams - look at the guidance sheet on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Nov 21st:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Contenders for the Throne.
2. If you have extra time you should revise using the guide sheet on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Nov 14th:
1. Finish your mind map using the information on p8-11 and the guidelines on the Moodle.
2. Complete the sheet on the spy report about the plans to invade England. Do this in some detail.
Homework for Monday, Nov 7th:
1. Finish your revision mind map
2. Learn the History words that are in the Introduction section of the Moodle.
3. Finish questions 1 & 2 about What were the Middle Ages like (see the Moodle for the questions)?
Homework for Thursday, Oct 27th:
Answer the following questions:
1. What does each piece of evidence say about the battle? (use your own words, but you can also use quotations too).
2. What do the two sources agree on?
3. What do the two sources disagree about?
4. Why might the the two sources have different interpretations of the battle?
5. Which source do you think was written by an Englishman and which one by a Frenchman? Explain your answer.
6. Which source do you think is the most reliable? Explain why?
Homework for Monday, Oct 24th:
Make sure you finish all six questions on page 145 and that you have explained your answers FULLY with the use of supporting evidence.
When you finish, check that all other work is up to date, that titles are underlined and that spelling corrections have been done.
Homework for Monday, October 17th:
What happened to the Princes in the Tower:
Gathering the Evidence:
1. Summarise the key points of your evidence, including who produced it and when.
2. Now swap with the other members of the group and copy up their findings.
3. Now examine the evidence in the text book p142-145 and add any new information to your findings (do this in bullet points).
Homework for Monday, October 10th:
1. Make sure you finish the worksheet on Sources and Evidence.
2. Now complete the "Using Sources" sheet - both of which are on the Moodle.
REMEMBER: Read the instructions carefully and answer in full sentences. Do spelling corrections-
Homework for Monday, Sept 27th:
1. Finish the activities on Measuring Time from the Moodle.
2. Do the all the Who Lives in this Room activities that are on the Moodle.
Remember to answer in full sentences and to make it clear what the question was.
Homework for Monday, Sept 19th:
1. Finish the Measuring Time questions.
2. Look on the Moodle for the Chronology worksheet and do question Nº6:
Now pick a famous person from the list below and draw out a timeline of their life:
* Julius Caesar
* William the Conqueror
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Elizabeth I
* Oliver Cromwell
* Napoleon
* Abraham Lincoln
* Nelson Mandela
* Martin Luther King
Homework for Monday, Sept 12th
1. Finish the Family Tree questions.
2. Glue in the timeline.
3. Draw out on a clean page your family tree (do it in rough first)
Homework for Thursday, Sept 8th:
1. Make sure you have finished the title page and covered your book.
2. Write a detailed paragraph or two explaining what history is and what skills a person needs to be a good historian.
Homework for Monday, Sept 5th:
1. Do a title page for the first topic "What is History?" using your own drawings and images.
2. Cover your History book with images related to History and the Middle Ages which we will study this year.
Homework for Tuesday, June 20th:
Make sure you have finished the research for your part of the Black Death project. Also bring in images to go with your research.
Homework for Tuesday, May 31st:
1. Make sure you have finished the peasant board game activity.
2. Revision (see revision guide on the Moodle)
Homework for Tuesday, May 17th:
1. Finish off the Peasants Game Activities which are on the Moodle.
Homework for Tuesday, May 10th:
Finish the Open Fields questions and then go on to Medieval Village Life 02. Read the sheet carefully and do activities 1-5. All of the information is on the Moodle.
Homework for Tuesday, May 3rd:
Finish all the castle tasks including the Castle Guide (the instructions are all on the Moodle). Use a Pages template (Museum or Elegant brochure)
Homework for Wednesday, April 27th:
Design your own Castle.
Now design your own castle. It can be done as a drawing, painting, model or on Minecraft.
Homework for Tuesday, April 12th:
1. Finish the diagram and labels of the Motte and Bailey.
2. Also make sure you have completed the Methods of Attack sheet.
3. Complete the chart on the features of a castle using the sheet entitled "Castles in the Middle Ages" and the information on the Woodlands School webpage.
Homework for Tuesday, April 5th:
Write your essay: Was William a great king or a cruel tyrant?
Introduction:
Some background on who William was. Explain the different opinions about his reign and why people disagree about him.
Main body:
a) evidence that William was a cruel tyrant.
b) evidence that William was a great king
Remember the Point. Evidence, Explanation, Link rule
Conclusion:
What is your overall judgement on William?
What aspects of his rule were good?
What aspects were bad?
Homework for Tuesday, March 15th:
1. Do sections 1, 2 & 3 on the Was William a War Criminal activity?
Homework for Tuesday, March 8th:
1. Make sure you finish the questions on the Feudal system.
2. Read the sheet on the Domesday book and pages 30-31 of your text book, then do the worksheet on Domesday (use p 31 to do the pie chart)
3. Do the quiz at the end of the Domesday booklet - write out the questions and answers.
Homework for Tuesday, March 1st:
Finish and print our your newspapers on Hereward. Check that it is in the past tense and that you have made it biased to one side using adjectives and one-sided descriptions. Check the spelling and make it look and sound like a newspaper.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 23rd:
1. Finish the chart on William's control of his new kingdom.
2. Do the activities on Castles that are on the Moodle.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 9th:
1. Finish the questions on William's problems.
2. Do the medieval calendar of 1066.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 2nd:
Finish the work on the Bayeux Tapestry and Harold's Death using the material on the Moodle.
Homework for Wednesday, Jan 27th:
1. You should already have finished the list of reasons why William won the battle and the second cartoon strip.
2. Homework is to write the essay answering the question: "Why did William win the Battle of Hastings?" The guidance for essay is on the Moodle. Follow the guidelines on structure and you can also try and use some of the historical words that are on the Moodle too.
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 19th:
1. Finish the questions on the preparations for the battle (see the Moodle).
2. Do activities 1 & 2 on the Battle (again on the Moodle): the first is a sketch map of the battlefield and the second is the cartoon strip of the first part of the battle.
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 18th:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Contenders for the Throne (copy on the Moodle)
2. Do the questions on Stamford Bridge (again on the Moodle)
3. Can you also fill in this exam review questionnaire
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 1st:
1. You should have finished the work on the contenders for the throne.
2. Revision.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 24th:
1. Make sure you have finished the questions on the source collections.
2. Do the spy report on England
3. Read pages 8-11 of the text book and make a bullet-point list of what England was like in the 1060s.
Project for after exams - week beginning Dec 15th:
Do your project on the historic object using the resources and guidance on the moodle. It can be a written report, a podcast, a video, an animation or cartoon, a poem, a prezi etc
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 10th:
1. Revise the history skills we have covered: key words, chronology, using evidence etc.
2. Finish the three paragraphs on what is certain, what is likely and what is possible...
3. Now write up your own report on what you think happened to the body - remember to include evidence to support your conclusions. Do the report on the iPad, print it out and hand it on the Wednesday.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 3rd:
1. Watch the video on the Princes in the Tower on the Moodle and make notes on what it says.
2. Now explain what you think happened to the Princes. Remember to back up your theories with evidence. You can also do some of your own research.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 13th:
1. Finish off the sheets on the Moodle entitled "Sources and Evidence" and "Using Sources".
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 6th:
Spend 45 minutes on finishing the work on "Who lives in this room" and doing the "murder mystery scene of the crime " activity.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 29th:
Produce your own family tree. You can either do this on a piece of paper or using the Ancestry App on the iPad.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 15th:
Make sure you have finished the detailed paragraph explaining what History is in your opinion.
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 9th:
Do the title page for the "What is History?" topic.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 22nd:
1. Make sure you have finished the classroom activities.
2. Construct a timeline of your life.
3. Choose a famous person from the following list:
Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King.
Homework for Friday, June 19th:
1. Make sure you have finished and glued in your town plan.
2. Do the worksheet on town problems.
Homework for Monday, June 15th:
Read pages 62-63 of your text book.
1. Show the information in the opening paragraph in diagrammatic form.
2. Why did towns grow?
3. What was included in a town charter and what advantages did it have for the townspeople and the for the local lord or king?
4. Make a list of medieval trades and what they did. Try and find out what a cooper and a tanner did.
5a) What was a guild?
5b) Why do you think some of the guild rules were so strict?
5c) Why do you think the guild chose to give money to their members who became poor because of old age, sickness or accident?
Homework for Monday, June 8th:
Revision for the internal exams. Remember the advice you have been given and the details on the checklist.
Homework for Monday, June 1st:
1. Make sure you have finished the work on Village Life, Living in a Medieval Village and on the Luttrell Psalter (this should all have been done already).
2. Revise (see checklist and advise on the Key Stage 3 section of the website)
Homework for Monday, May 25th:
Make sure you finish your descriptions of the pictures of the Luttrell Psalter.
Homework for Monday, May 18th:
1. Finish off all the tasks on the Village Life worksheet on iTunesU.
Homework for Monday, May 11th:
1. You must have finished the Magna Carta video and storyboard.
2. Finish the questions on the Open Field system from the worksheet called Medieval Villages Worksheet 01 which you will find on iTunes.
Homework for Monday, May 4th:
1. Make sure you have finished the Legacy question and mind map.
2. Complete a storyboard on your video by Friday, May 8th.
3. Complete your video trailer by Monday, May 11th.
Homework for Monday, April 27th:
1. Finish the worksheets on Magna Carta, including the extension work.
2. Produce your own version of a Medieval Charter, include at least five clauses which you think would help ensure the kingdom was ruled fairly. You should make it look like an old charter or scroll.
Homework for Monday, April 20th:
1. Make sure you have done all the Easyclass exercises up to the section on Why King John was so unpopular?
2. Do the Why was King John so unpopular section from Easyclass.
3. Then do the next post on Easyclass which involves looking at Chapter 2 on the National Archives website and adding information to your list on why John was so unpopular.
Homework for Monday, April 13th:
1. Make sure you have finished the mind map and the advert for the job in the castle.
2. Design your own castle - you can do a drawing, a painting, a model or do one on Minecraft.
Homework for Monday, March 23rd:
Finish the guide to your castle (see iTunesU for advice)
Homework for Monday, March 16th:
1. Finish the activity on castle sieges and the plan of attack that are on iTunesU.
Homework for Monday, March 9th:
Complete the chart on the different features of a castle on the iTunesU. Use the Woodlands website link and look at the sections entitled "Parts of a Castle" and "Castle Defences".
Homework for Monday, March 2nd:
1. Finish off the work on "Was William a Good King?" Also make sure you are up to date with all other work and have completed it fully and glued in all sheets you have written on.
2. Put the title Castles and complete the sheet "Why was a motte and bailey castle strong?"
Homework for Monday, Feb 23rd:
1. Finish the Hereward the Wake newspaper story in a Pages template. Print it and put it into your book.
Homework for Monday, Feb 2nd:
Make sure you have finished the work on the iTunesU up to and including the work on Castles.
Homework for Monday, Jan 25th:
You should complete all the questions on how William took control on the iTunesU site.
Homework for Monday, Jan 19th:
You should complete the worksheet on The Bayeux Tapestry - Using Evidence and do your own scene from the Tapestry on the A4 sheet.
Homework for Monday, Jan 12th:
How did Harold die?
You are going to invesigate the arguments about how Harold died.
1. Read pages 22 and 23 carefully.
2. Now examine Source A: The Bayeux Tapestry and Evidence A-E.
For each piece of evidence, explain:
i) who produced it
ii) when it was produced
iii) what it tells us about Harold's death
iv) How far you trust the evidence
3. Does any of the evidence agree on how Harold was killed?
4. How do you think Harold died? Remember to use evidence to support your theory. Remember you can say that you are not sure as long as you explain why.
For Friday, Dec 12th:
Draw a cartoon strip (with captions) to show what happened on the afternoon of the battle (see page 20 of your text book).
For Tuesday, Dec 9th:
The Battle of Hastings:
1. Draw a sketch map to show the way the two armies were situated in the battle.
2. Draw a cartoon strip (with captions) to show what happened on the morning of the battle.
For Monday, Nov 24th:
1. Finish the activities on the Battle of Stamford Bridge
2. Revision for the December exams
For Monday, Nov 17th:
1. Make sure you have finished your spy report.
2. Read pages 8-11 of your text book and then compile 10 interesting facts about England before 1066.
3. Do Activity 3 on page 11 - match the sentences then copy out the correct answer into your books.
4. Put the title: Who should be the next King of England? (pages 12-13)
a) For each contender for the throne write a factfile explaining who they were.
b) For each contender explain why they should be king and why they should not be king.
For Tuesday, Nov 11th:
1. Finish writing about both collections of sources (write about each source and a general summary paragraph about each collection).
2. Why do you think the two collections give such a different impression of the Middle Ages?
3. What do you think the Middle Ages were really like?
4. Finish your title page on the Middle Ages.
For Monday, Nov 3rd:
1. Make sure you have finished the biased story on Richard III.
2. Learn the meanings of the History words on iTunesU (materials section).
3. Revise what we have done this half of term for a test on the first lesson back.
For Monday, Oct 13th:
Finish the worksheet on sources and evidence. A copy is available on the iTunesU site.
For Monday, October 6th:
Finish the "Murder Mystery" scene of the crime investigation. You should already have finished the "Who Lives in this room exercise.
For Monday, September 29th:
Make sure you have finished all the activities on chronology on the iTunesU course, right up to activity 9. However, you only have to research three calendars.
1a). The calendar used in Britain and the names of the days and months tells us much about British history. Find out the meaning of each of the months of the year and the days of the week and which culture they come from. What does this tell us?
1b). Can you find out the origins of the names of the days of the week in Spanish? What does this tell us about Spain?
2. Take a page in your book and produce a poster showing the origins of the names of the days of the week.
3. Now work out in which century each of the following famous people was born:
Make sure you have finished the work on how people told the time in the past.
Homework for Monday, Sept 22nd:
1. Try and start or add new relations to your family tree using Ancestry.com app.
2. Then take a full page in your exercise book to draw out a timeline of your life. You should include the date, what happened to you and what was happening in the world at the same time.
Remember you can use the iTunesU course for help.
Homework for Monday, Sept 15th:
1. Make sure you have finished ordering the Tintin story and glue in to your books.
2. Put the title:
Long-Term History: the Time Machine
If you had a time machine, where and when in history would you go (explain your choice carefully and in detail).
Now write a hand-written label on an A4 piece of paper or card with the name of your time period.
Homework for Monday, Sept 8th:
1. Try and add some more ideas to your spider diagram about "What is History?"
2. Draw out a title page for the "What is History?" topic
3. Cover your book with images and pictures related to the topics we will study this year (you have until Friday for this part of the homework).
Homework for Monday, Jan 8th:
1. Make sure you have finished the activities on castles.
2. Make sure you have put the Hereward the Wake story into the correct order. Make sure you save the correct version of this story.
Homework for Monday, Dec 18th:
Finish the worksheet on William's problems.
Homework for Monday, Dec 11th:
1. Finish the How did Harold die worksheet.
2. Finish the Bayeux Tapestry worksheet.
Homework for Monday, Nov 27th:
1. Finish the bird'e eye map using page 18 of the textbook.
2. Now plan out your eight scenes of your storyboard using the information from pages 19 and 20 of the textbook and produce your own storyboard.
Homework for Monday, Nov 20th:
1. Finish the charts on the soldiers.
2. Do the activities on the preparations for the Battle which are on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Nov 13th:
Read the section in the textbook on the Battle of Stamford Bridge (p14-15) and use that to complete the factfile on the battle (copy on the Moodle)
Homework for Monday, Nov 6th:
1. You have each been given a candidate for the throne of England (Enaya, Jorge and Nicolas you will be working together: Enaya is doing William, Jorge doing Harold Godwinson and Nicolas doing Harald Hardraada). You should produce a Keynote presentation slide on your candidate to explain why he should be king. Include:
- An image of your candidate
- A list of reasons why he should be king
See me before the end of the week if you have any problems.
Homework for Monday, Oct 23rd:
1. Make sure you have finished the spy chart
2. Write up your own spy report based on your findings explaining to William how easy you think it would be to invade England.
3. Why invade England? Use the information sheet on the Moodle to explain why it was worth invading England.
4. Do the worksheet "Who were the Normans?"
Homework for Tuesday, October 17th:
Make sure you know how to do the following (use your notes and the Moodle on History skills to help you)
- Put things in chronological order.
- Work out which century a year was in.
- Know the key words related to time.
- How to examine a family tree
- How to use sources when carrying out an historical investigation.
Finish the activities on chronology and the Middle Ages using the sheet on the Moodle. Do questions 1 & 2 on both sheets..
Please check all homework has been finished fully.
Homework for Monday, October 2nd:
Use pages 142-145 of your textbook and the evidence sheet to answer questions 1-6 on page 145 of the book. Make sure you give detailed answers to each question.
Homework for Monday, Sept 25th:
Answer the following questions on the body in the ice mystery.
1. When we found the body, what questions did you ask?
2. Using all the evidence, piece together your version of what you think happened and how the man died. Back up your ideas with evidence.
Homework for Monday, Sept 18th:
1. Make sure you have finished all the questions on "Who lives in this room?"
2. Read the material on the Murder Mystery on the Moodle. The do questions 1-4
Homework for Monday, Sept 11th:
1. Do a title page for "What is History?", include a few drawings and the title
2. Use the information we saw and discussed in class to write a detailed paragraph explaining "What is History?"
Use the sheet and mindmap to help you.
Homeworks for 2016-17:
Homework for Monday, January 16th:
1. Finish the essay, ready to be handed in on Monday,
Homework for Thursday, Dec 22nd:
1. Finish the storyboard about the Battle of Hastings using the information on page 20 of the textbook.
2. Use the information from the video and the textbook to add any further points to your list of the reasons why William won the battle. Remember to use the following categories:
i) Reasons to do with Preparations
ii) Reasons to do with Leadership, Strategy and Tactics
iii) Reasons to do with mistakes made by Harold
iv) Reasons to do with Luck
Homework for Monday, Dec 19th:
1. Do your version of the aerial map on p18 of your text book.
2. Make sure you have finished the preparations chart using the information on the timeline and pages 16-18 of the textbook.
3. Use the pictures on page 19 to do the first half of the storyboard about the battle.
Homework for Thursday, Dec 15th:
Please fill in this exam review questionnaire.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 24th:
Revision for the exams - look at the guidance sheet on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Nov 21st:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Contenders for the Throne.
2. If you have extra time you should revise using the guide sheet on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Nov 14th:
1. Finish your mind map using the information on p8-11 and the guidelines on the Moodle.
2. Complete the sheet on the spy report about the plans to invade England. Do this in some detail.
Homework for Monday, Nov 7th:
1. Finish your revision mind map
2. Learn the History words that are in the Introduction section of the Moodle.
3. Finish questions 1 & 2 about What were the Middle Ages like (see the Moodle for the questions)?
Homework for Thursday, Oct 27th:
Answer the following questions:
1. What does each piece of evidence say about the battle? (use your own words, but you can also use quotations too).
2. What do the two sources agree on?
3. What do the two sources disagree about?
4. Why might the the two sources have different interpretations of the battle?
5. Which source do you think was written by an Englishman and which one by a Frenchman? Explain your answer.
6. Which source do you think is the most reliable? Explain why?
Homework for Monday, Oct 24th:
Make sure you finish all six questions on page 145 and that you have explained your answers FULLY with the use of supporting evidence.
When you finish, check that all other work is up to date, that titles are underlined and that spelling corrections have been done.
Homework for Monday, October 17th:
What happened to the Princes in the Tower:
Gathering the Evidence:
1. Summarise the key points of your evidence, including who produced it and when.
2. Now swap with the other members of the group and copy up their findings.
3. Now examine the evidence in the text book p142-145 and add any new information to your findings (do this in bullet points).
Homework for Monday, October 10th:
1. Make sure you finish the worksheet on Sources and Evidence.
2. Now complete the "Using Sources" sheet - both of which are on the Moodle.
REMEMBER: Read the instructions carefully and answer in full sentences. Do spelling corrections-
Homework for Monday, Sept 27th:
1. Finish the activities on Measuring Time from the Moodle.
2. Do the all the Who Lives in this Room activities that are on the Moodle.
Remember to answer in full sentences and to make it clear what the question was.
Homework for Monday, Sept 19th:
1. Finish the Measuring Time questions.
2. Look on the Moodle for the Chronology worksheet and do question Nº6:
Now pick a famous person from the list below and draw out a timeline of their life:
* Julius Caesar
* William the Conqueror
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Elizabeth I
* Oliver Cromwell
* Napoleon
* Abraham Lincoln
* Nelson Mandela
* Martin Luther King
Homework for Monday, Sept 12th
1. Finish the Family Tree questions.
2. Glue in the timeline.
3. Draw out on a clean page your family tree (do it in rough first)
Homework for Thursday, Sept 8th:
1. Make sure you have finished the title page and covered your book.
2. Write a detailed paragraph or two explaining what history is and what skills a person needs to be a good historian.
Homework for Monday, Sept 5th:
1. Do a title page for the first topic "What is History?" using your own drawings and images.
2. Cover your History book with images related to History and the Middle Ages which we will study this year.
Homework for Tuesday, June 20th:
Make sure you have finished the research for your part of the Black Death project. Also bring in images to go with your research.
Homework for Tuesday, May 31st:
1. Make sure you have finished the peasant board game activity.
2. Revision (see revision guide on the Moodle)
Homework for Tuesday, May 17th:
1. Finish off the Peasants Game Activities which are on the Moodle.
Homework for Tuesday, May 10th:
Finish the Open Fields questions and then go on to Medieval Village Life 02. Read the sheet carefully and do activities 1-5. All of the information is on the Moodle.
Homework for Tuesday, May 3rd:
Finish all the castle tasks including the Castle Guide (the instructions are all on the Moodle). Use a Pages template (Museum or Elegant brochure)
Homework for Wednesday, April 27th:
Design your own Castle.
Now design your own castle. It can be done as a drawing, painting, model or on Minecraft.
Homework for Tuesday, April 12th:
1. Finish the diagram and labels of the Motte and Bailey.
2. Also make sure you have completed the Methods of Attack sheet.
3. Complete the chart on the features of a castle using the sheet entitled "Castles in the Middle Ages" and the information on the Woodlands School webpage.
Homework for Tuesday, April 5th:
Write your essay: Was William a great king or a cruel tyrant?
Introduction:
Some background on who William was. Explain the different opinions about his reign and why people disagree about him.
Main body:
a) evidence that William was a cruel tyrant.
b) evidence that William was a great king
Remember the Point. Evidence, Explanation, Link rule
Conclusion:
What is your overall judgement on William?
What aspects of his rule were good?
What aspects were bad?
Homework for Tuesday, March 15th:
1. Do sections 1, 2 & 3 on the Was William a War Criminal activity?
Homework for Tuesday, March 8th:
1. Make sure you finish the questions on the Feudal system.
2. Read the sheet on the Domesday book and pages 30-31 of your text book, then do the worksheet on Domesday (use p 31 to do the pie chart)
3. Do the quiz at the end of the Domesday booklet - write out the questions and answers.
Homework for Tuesday, March 1st:
Finish and print our your newspapers on Hereward. Check that it is in the past tense and that you have made it biased to one side using adjectives and one-sided descriptions. Check the spelling and make it look and sound like a newspaper.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 23rd:
1. Finish the chart on William's control of his new kingdom.
2. Do the activities on Castles that are on the Moodle.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 9th:
1. Finish the questions on William's problems.
2. Do the medieval calendar of 1066.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 2nd:
Finish the work on the Bayeux Tapestry and Harold's Death using the material on the Moodle.
Homework for Wednesday, Jan 27th:
1. You should already have finished the list of reasons why William won the battle and the second cartoon strip.
2. Homework is to write the essay answering the question: "Why did William win the Battle of Hastings?" The guidance for essay is on the Moodle. Follow the guidelines on structure and you can also try and use some of the historical words that are on the Moodle too.
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 19th:
1. Finish the questions on the preparations for the battle (see the Moodle).
2. Do activities 1 & 2 on the Battle (again on the Moodle): the first is a sketch map of the battlefield and the second is the cartoon strip of the first part of the battle.
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 18th:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Contenders for the Throne (copy on the Moodle)
2. Do the questions on Stamford Bridge (again on the Moodle)
3. Can you also fill in this exam review questionnaire
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 1st:
1. You should have finished the work on the contenders for the throne.
2. Revision.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 24th:
1. Make sure you have finished the questions on the source collections.
2. Do the spy report on England
3. Read pages 8-11 of the text book and make a bullet-point list of what England was like in the 1060s.
Project for after exams - week beginning Dec 15th:
Do your project on the historic object using the resources and guidance on the moodle. It can be a written report, a podcast, a video, an animation or cartoon, a poem, a prezi etc
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 10th:
1. Revise the history skills we have covered: key words, chronology, using evidence etc.
2. Finish the three paragraphs on what is certain, what is likely and what is possible...
3. Now write up your own report on what you think happened to the body - remember to include evidence to support your conclusions. Do the report on the iPad, print it out and hand it on the Wednesday.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 3rd:
1. Watch the video on the Princes in the Tower on the Moodle and make notes on what it says.
2. Now explain what you think happened to the Princes. Remember to back up your theories with evidence. You can also do some of your own research.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 13th:
1. Finish off the sheets on the Moodle entitled "Sources and Evidence" and "Using Sources".
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 6th:
Spend 45 minutes on finishing the work on "Who lives in this room" and doing the "murder mystery scene of the crime " activity.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 29th:
Produce your own family tree. You can either do this on a piece of paper or using the Ancestry App on the iPad.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 15th:
Make sure you have finished the detailed paragraph explaining what History is in your opinion.
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 9th:
Do the title page for the "What is History?" topic.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 22nd:
1. Make sure you have finished the classroom activities.
2. Construct a timeline of your life.
3. Choose a famous person from the following list:
Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King.
Homework for Friday, June 19th:
1. Make sure you have finished and glued in your town plan.
2. Do the worksheet on town problems.
Homework for Monday, June 15th:
Read pages 62-63 of your text book.
1. Show the information in the opening paragraph in diagrammatic form.
2. Why did towns grow?
3. What was included in a town charter and what advantages did it have for the townspeople and the for the local lord or king?
4. Make a list of medieval trades and what they did. Try and find out what a cooper and a tanner did.
5a) What was a guild?
5b) Why do you think some of the guild rules were so strict?
5c) Why do you think the guild chose to give money to their members who became poor because of old age, sickness or accident?
Homework for Monday, June 8th:
Revision for the internal exams. Remember the advice you have been given and the details on the checklist.
Homework for Monday, June 1st:
1. Make sure you have finished the work on Village Life, Living in a Medieval Village and on the Luttrell Psalter (this should all have been done already).
2. Revise (see checklist and advise on the Key Stage 3 section of the website)
Homework for Monday, May 25th:
Make sure you finish your descriptions of the pictures of the Luttrell Psalter.
Homework for Monday, May 18th:
1. Finish off all the tasks on the Village Life worksheet on iTunesU.
Homework for Monday, May 11th:
1. You must have finished the Magna Carta video and storyboard.
2. Finish the questions on the Open Field system from the worksheet called Medieval Villages Worksheet 01 which you will find on iTunes.
Homework for Monday, May 4th:
1. Make sure you have finished the Legacy question and mind map.
2. Complete a storyboard on your video by Friday, May 8th.
3. Complete your video trailer by Monday, May 11th.
Homework for Monday, April 27th:
1. Finish the worksheets on Magna Carta, including the extension work.
2. Produce your own version of a Medieval Charter, include at least five clauses which you think would help ensure the kingdom was ruled fairly. You should make it look like an old charter or scroll.
Homework for Monday, April 20th:
1. Make sure you have done all the Easyclass exercises up to the section on Why King John was so unpopular?
2. Do the Why was King John so unpopular section from Easyclass.
3. Then do the next post on Easyclass which involves looking at Chapter 2 on the National Archives website and adding information to your list on why John was so unpopular.
Homework for Monday, April 13th:
1. Make sure you have finished the mind map and the advert for the job in the castle.
2. Design your own castle - you can do a drawing, a painting, a model or do one on Minecraft.
Homework for Monday, March 23rd:
Finish the guide to your castle (see iTunesU for advice)
Homework for Monday, March 16th:
1. Finish the activity on castle sieges and the plan of attack that are on iTunesU.
Homework for Monday, March 9th:
Complete the chart on the different features of a castle on the iTunesU. Use the Woodlands website link and look at the sections entitled "Parts of a Castle" and "Castle Defences".
Homework for Monday, March 2nd:
1. Finish off the work on "Was William a Good King?" Also make sure you are up to date with all other work and have completed it fully and glued in all sheets you have written on.
2. Put the title Castles and complete the sheet "Why was a motte and bailey castle strong?"
Homework for Monday, Feb 23rd:
1. Finish the Hereward the Wake newspaper story in a Pages template. Print it and put it into your book.
Homework for Monday, Feb 2nd:
Make sure you have finished the work on the iTunesU up to and including the work on Castles.
Homework for Monday, Jan 25th:
You should complete all the questions on how William took control on the iTunesU site.
Homework for Monday, Jan 19th:
You should complete the worksheet on The Bayeux Tapestry - Using Evidence and do your own scene from the Tapestry on the A4 sheet.
Homework for Monday, Jan 12th:
How did Harold die?
You are going to invesigate the arguments about how Harold died.
1. Read pages 22 and 23 carefully.
2. Now examine Source A: The Bayeux Tapestry and Evidence A-E.
For each piece of evidence, explain:
i) who produced it
ii) when it was produced
iii) what it tells us about Harold's death
iv) How far you trust the evidence
3. Does any of the evidence agree on how Harold was killed?
4. How do you think Harold died? Remember to use evidence to support your theory. Remember you can say that you are not sure as long as you explain why.
For Friday, Dec 12th:
Draw a cartoon strip (with captions) to show what happened on the afternoon of the battle (see page 20 of your text book).
For Tuesday, Dec 9th:
The Battle of Hastings:
1. Draw a sketch map to show the way the two armies were situated in the battle.
2. Draw a cartoon strip (with captions) to show what happened on the morning of the battle.
For Monday, Nov 24th:
1. Finish the activities on the Battle of Stamford Bridge
2. Revision for the December exams
For Monday, Nov 17th:
1. Make sure you have finished your spy report.
2. Read pages 8-11 of your text book and then compile 10 interesting facts about England before 1066.
3. Do Activity 3 on page 11 - match the sentences then copy out the correct answer into your books.
4. Put the title: Who should be the next King of England? (pages 12-13)
a) For each contender for the throne write a factfile explaining who they were.
b) For each contender explain why they should be king and why they should not be king.
For Tuesday, Nov 11th:
1. Finish writing about both collections of sources (write about each source and a general summary paragraph about each collection).
2. Why do you think the two collections give such a different impression of the Middle Ages?
3. What do you think the Middle Ages were really like?
4. Finish your title page on the Middle Ages.
For Monday, Nov 3rd:
1. Make sure you have finished the biased story on Richard III.
2. Learn the meanings of the History words on iTunesU (materials section).
3. Revise what we have done this half of term for a test on the first lesson back.
For Monday, Oct 13th:
Finish the worksheet on sources and evidence. A copy is available on the iTunesU site.
For Monday, October 6th:
Finish the "Murder Mystery" scene of the crime investigation. You should already have finished the "Who Lives in this room exercise.
For Monday, September 29th:
Make sure you have finished all the activities on chronology on the iTunesU course, right up to activity 9. However, you only have to research three calendars.
1a). The calendar used in Britain and the names of the days and months tells us much about British history. Find out the meaning of each of the months of the year and the days of the week and which culture they come from. What does this tell us?
1b). Can you find out the origins of the names of the days of the week in Spanish? What does this tell us about Spain?
2. Take a page in your book and produce a poster showing the origins of the names of the days of the week.
3. Now work out in which century each of the following famous people was born:
- Alexander the Great - born 356 BC
- William the Conqueror - born AD 1027
- Joan of Arc - born AD 1412
- Mary, Queen of Scots - born AD 1542
- Napoleon Bonaparte - born AD 1769.
Make sure you have finished the work on how people told the time in the past.
Homework for Monday, Sept 22nd:
1. Try and start or add new relations to your family tree using Ancestry.com app.
2. Then take a full page in your exercise book to draw out a timeline of your life. You should include the date, what happened to you and what was happening in the world at the same time.
Remember you can use the iTunesU course for help.
Homework for Monday, Sept 15th:
1. Make sure you have finished ordering the Tintin story and glue in to your books.
2. Put the title:
Long-Term History: the Time Machine
If you had a time machine, where and when in history would you go (explain your choice carefully and in detail).
Now write a hand-written label on an A4 piece of paper or card with the name of your time period.
Homework for Monday, Sept 8th:
1. Try and add some more ideas to your spider diagram about "What is History?"
2. Draw out a title page for the "What is History?" topic
3. Cover your book with images and pictures related to the topics we will study this year (you have until Friday for this part of the homework).