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Translating an inscription

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Shang Dynasty Writing and the Shang Calendar

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Objectives

History

  • Children should undertake an in-depth study of The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China.

English

  • Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction.

Lesson Planning

Translate a Shang text and explain what the oracle bones tell us about the Shang Dynasty.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To learn how and why people in the Shang Dynasty wrote.
  • To transcribe and translate Shang characters.

Children will:

  • Use a number of different strategies to solve a problem.
  • Translate a Shang text.
  • Explain what the oracle bones tell us about the Shang Dynasty.

Provided Resources

  • Transcription of an oracle bone with a translation template
  • Translation of the text on an oracle bone
  • The stems and branches of the dates

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