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Feasts

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

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Objectives

History

  • Understand that many different peoples have settled in Britain since the start of the Common Era and have helped shape the nation.
  • Understand connections between cultural, social and military history.

DT

  • Prepare and cook a variety of dishes.
  • Understand seasonality.

English

  • Discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write.
  • Organise paragraphs around a theme.
  • In narratives, create settings, characters and plot.
  • Read aloud their own writing.
  • Participate in role-play and performances.
  • Gain and maintain the interest of the listeners.
  • Summarise main ideas.

Lesson Planning

A final feast gives the children a meaningful setting in which to perform their music, sagas, kennings and riddles as well as dressing up and eating Anglo-Saxon foods.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand the importance of feasts in Anglo-Saxon society.
  • To write a mini-saga, then perform mini-sagas, poems and riddles.

Children will:

  • Appreciate the importance of feasting in Anglo-Saxon society.
  • Try some Anglo-Saxon foods.
  • Write a mini-saga in 50 words.

Provided Resources

  • Information on Anglo-Saxon feasts
  • Descriptions of feasts from ‘Beowulf’
  • Examples of mini-saga drafts
  • List of foods for a feast
  • Recipe for pottage

You Will Need

  • All arts, crafts, and literary projects from sessions 1–4
  • Food for the feast

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