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Writing

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Anglo-Saxons Beliefs

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Objectives

History

  • Understand how people’s lives have shaped Britain.
  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, and cause and consequence.
  • Gain historical perspective by understanding the connections between local and national history, and between short- and long-term timescales.
  • Understand how Britain has been influenced by the wider world.

Art and Design

  • Know about great artists and designers in history.

Lesson Planning

Learn about writing using runes, and about the Anglo-Saxon books written by monks. Write a message with runes and design your own Anglo-Saxon image.

Teaching outcomes:

  • To understand that the Anglo-Saxon languages were originally written in runes and write simple sentences using runes.
  • To colour in or design and colour creatures from the Lindisfarne Gospels and/or The Book of Kells.

Children will:

  • Explain that early Anglo-Saxon writing used runes.
  • Describe 2 examples of Anglo-Saxon books written by monks in Latin.
  • Colour in or design and colour an illustrated image from the Lindisfarne Gospels or The Book of Kells.

Provided Resources

  • List of runes and photographs of runic inscriptions
  • Inscription on the Franks Casket with translation
  • Photographs of The Lindisfarne Gospels
  • The Book of Kells
  • Outlines to colour in

You Will Need

  • White boards and pens
  • Crayons
  • The Lindisfarne Painting Book by Aidan Meehan
  • My Book of Kells Colouring Book, O’Brien

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