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Proverbs

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Sumer Inventions

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations.
  • Characteristic features of past non-European societies.
  • Understand historical concepts such as similarity, difference and significance.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between cultural and social history.

English

  • Read and discuss an increasingly wide range of non-fiction.
  • Increase their familiarity with texts from other cultures.
  • Explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read.
  • Participate in performances.

Lesson Planning

Learn about how the Ancient Sumerians used proverbs and wrote them down. Discover the similarities between Ancient Sumerian proverbs and the English proverbs we use today. Learn to use proverbs in a day-to-day situation.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand that the Ancient Sumerians wrote down proverbs that had probably been passed down orally for hundreds of years.
  • To define a proverb and list some English examples.
  • Read and suggest explanations of Ancient Sumerian proverbs.
  • Write a short play script using dialogue leading up to the use of an Ancient Sumerian proverb.

Children will:

  • Define a proverb and list some English examples.
  • Understand that Ancient Sumerians wrote down proverbs (wise sayings) which had probably been passed down orally for hundreds of years.
  • Understand the meaning of proverbs (both English and Ancient Sumerian).
  • Write a short play script leading to the use of an Ancient Sumerian proverb.

You Will Need

  • Props for short plays

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