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Performance time!

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Beyond Living Memory: Commemorating History Thanksgiving Day

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Objectives

History

  • Discover events beyond living memory that are significant globally.
  • Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.
  • Ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories/other sources.

English

  • Develop understanding through speculating, hypothesizing, imaging and exploring idea.
  • Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, roleplay, improvisations, debates.

Lesson Planning

Children present their learning to invited audience. Watch present day traditional parade.

Teaching Outcomes
 To inform others what chn found out about everyday life for the Pilgrim Families and the Wampanog People in the 1620s.
To participate in performance.

Children will:

  • Recap their learning to decide what information should be dramatised for audience.
  • Present a performance to an invited audience.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Resources used in previous sessions and created items, paintings, question and answer sheets
  • Thanksgiving Day’ by Anne and Lizzie Rockwell
  • Scrap paper and sticky notes
  • Blu-tack
  • Long length of wall paper or lining paper
  • Simple Thanksgiving food to eat together

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