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Ancient Greece
and Literacy
No. of slides: 23
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- Greek words (spelling patterns and meanings);
- Why visit
Greece (persuasive text);
- Greek city
states (information text);
- Life in
an Athenian school
(diary entry);
- Spartan
propaganda (information text);
- Thesues
and the Minotaur (newspaper article);
- The siege
of Troy (newspaper article);
- Socrates
and Archimedes (biographies);
- The Olympic
Games (information and poster);
- How to make
Greek food (instructional text);
- Illustrated
Greek myths.
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The Victorians
and Literacy
No. of slides:
25
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- Victorian timeline (visual information);
- Stephenson's
Rocket (newspaper article);
- Victorian
railways advantages & disadvantages (points of view,
letters of persuasion);
- Factory
worker (journal entry);
- Victorian
recipes (instructional texts);
- Victorian
inventions (information texts);
- Victorian
schools (diary and information texts);
- Children
at work (points of view);
- Victorian
houses of the rich and poor (journal entries);
- Victorian
toys and games (instructional text);
- Crime
and punishment (points of view);
- Queen Victoria
(biography);
- Helping
the poor (character profiles);
- The Industrial
Revolution (letters of persuasion).
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Invaders and
Settlers,
and Literacy
No. of slides:
25
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- Invaders
and settlers timeline (visual information);
- Roman and
Celt soldiers (annotated information text);
- How to make
a torc (instructional text);
- Who was
Julius Caesar? (information text);
- Who was Boudicca? (story,
points of view);
- Visit to
a Roman villa (letter from a Celtic visitor);
- Gladiators (persuasive poster);
- First Anglo-Saxon
invaders (diary entries);
- Roman,
Anglo Saxon and Viking lives (journal entries);
- Viking invasion
(newspaper article);
- A holiday
in Roman Britain (persuasive posters);
- Roman
remains (information text).
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Ancient Egypt
and Literacy
No. of slides:
25
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- Egyptian timeline (visual information);
- How to Make
a Mummy (instructional text);
- Howard Carter's
Discovery (newspaper article);
- Who was
Tutankhamun? (information text);
- Job Adverts (persuasive texts);
- Tutankhamun's
Curse (letters of persuasion);
- Egyptian
Farming (information text in a yearly cycle);
- Egyptian
Medicine (information text);
- The
River Nile (Points of View);
- How to make
papyrus and shadufs (instructional texts);
- Egyptian
Gods (fact files);
- What is
Ka? (explanatory text);
- How to write
in hieroglyphs (chart and explanation).
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Britain since
1930 and Literacy
No. of slides:
23
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- World War
II timeline (visual information);
- Hitler
invades Poland (newspaper article);
- How
did World War II start? (visual information);
- Who were
the war leaders? (biographies, and authentic war
speeches with transcript);
- Bomb shelters
(instructional text);
- Evacuation (letters and points of view);
- Food rationing (information
and letter to households);
- War propaganda
(posters);
- The blackout
(letter to households);
- Anne Frank
(biography and diary extracts);
- The
blitz (newspaper article, personal experiences and
air raid audio sounds);
- World
War II aeroplanes (authentic
audio sounds of 3 war planes);
- Battle
of Britain (authentic radio report with transcript);
- How the
war was won (explanation, and newspaper article);
- Celebrating
the end of the war (information and poetry).
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The Tudors
and Literacy
No. of slides:
22
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- Tudor Timeline
(visual information);
- A Tudor
town (information text);
- A Tudor
school (information text and diary);
- The six
wives of Henry VIII (fact files);
- Henry VIII's
break with Rome (letter requesting a divorce, explanation,
and points of view);
- Henry has
a son (newspaper article);
- Henry VIII
(biography);
- William
Shakespeare (biography);
- Elizabeth
I (biography);
- Tudor
life (journal);
- Tudor Trade (visual information and journal);
- Tudor food (explanation);
- Rich
and poor Tudor life (information text);
- The
Spanish Armada (newspaper article).
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