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theteachinglane.co.uk about each city-state, children jot down five key facts that they can recall. This will test their short-termmemory and ensure that they only summarise the most important or memorable facts. Take time at the end of the lesson to share on tables and then as a class. You could then curate a class set of key facts about the city-states to add to a display. If resources allow, you could have children research about these five cities, to develop their online searching skills. I recommend structuring the five key facts activity so enough time is allowed for searching and reading. The aim of this lesson is for children to see that city-states had shared culture but also their own idiosyncrasies. The lesson should also show children that although the city-states were independent, some were also dependent on each other during times of crisis. Assessment Can you tell me, frommemory, one interesting fact about each of the five city-states we studied this lesson? WEEK 5 Learning objective l To understand what daily life was like in Ancient Greece This lesson is a chance for children to reflect on six aspects of modern life, before comparing these to life in Ancient Greece. The activity for this lesson can be completed using words, pictures or both, so differentiates across a range of abilities. You may wish for children to apply their sketching skills and take a break fromwriting altogether. Using the worksheet in the download, ask children to reflect on their house, clothing, food and toys. Then they can think about their role in society (going to school, being a child in a family…) and the roles of their family members or other adults in their lives (their profession, who is in their family…). For these last two points, children should see that, regardless of gender, they have the same expectations. For other people, there is a whole host of different roles they can have; again, these are not usually linked to gender. There is then a series of slides you can work through (or print off) about the Ancient Greeks. Children will complete the table again, seeing that some parts of life are similar. They should see that the roles of people in society were quite Matthew Lane is a teacher from Norfolk. His book Wayfinder , on how to lead curriculum change, is out now. and jot notes on, along with a BBC Bitesize page to explore. This is all general background ready for the nine short summaries on the later slides. If your class has not completed a Diamond 9 before, you may want to model this in lots of detail. As you read through the slides, have children jot one to nine on a whiteboard or piece of scrap paper so they can order the nine topics in importance as you read. Or you could give children a rough copy of the Diamond 9 worksheet. Allow time for children to complete a neat copy of the Diamond 9 worksheet. This may take far more time than you might expect, especially when children are deliberating between the upper pair and lower pair. This can be a great activity to foster debate between talk partners or tables. Children can then write a few sentences explaining their most important and least important choices. There is a model for the writing and some exemplars on the slides. Assessment Can you explain why the Ancient Greeks are important to our society? Can you explain what parts of Ancient Greek society we see in Britain today? TP F EATURE S P L ANN I NG the_teaching_lane @MrMJLane different and there was a lack of freedom in life choices, especially for women. My class were shocked that girls could be married off to a man of their father’s choosing and that they would celebrate this by sacrificing their toys to Artemis before their marriage. Allow time at the end of the lesson to compare and share which ideas pupils noted. You could have children write a short summary paragraph, or expand on one of the boxes which they found particularly interesting. Assessment Can you explain what role you would have had in Ancient Greece as a child and as an adult? Would your role then be the same as now? WEEK 6 Learning objective l To understand the importance of the Ancient Greek civilisation in world history A question children may have been asking since Lesson 1 is ‘Why do we need to learn about the Ancient Greeks?’. So why are they important among the many different ancient cultures we could study? This lesson explores nine ways in which the Ancient Greeks have influenced our modern lives. Children will then plot these ideas out into a Diamond 9 sorting activity (a template is provided in the download) to apply their reasoning and comparison skills. Open with a discussion of the lesson’s question, drawing out the prior learning. If time allows, there are a few videos in the presentation for children to watch www.teachwire.net | 31