Day-to-day roles in the past

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory A Day in the Life

Objectives

History

  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
  • Learn about changes in living memory.
  • Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

English

  • Read aloud what is written with appropriate volume and intonation to make the meaning clear.
  • Say sentences out loud before writing them.
  • Re-read what is written to check that it makes sense.
  • Write a narrative based on fictional personal experience.

Lesson Planning

Children interview parents, grandparents and great-grandparents about changes in tasks and roles in and around the house. Children then write diary entries.

Teaching Outcomes
To identify fashions and style trends from various eras.
To paint a portrait of a relative as a child or young adult.

Children will:

  • Organise a range of diary entries by era, according to the day-to-day roles and activities described in them.
  • Interview a great-grandparent, grandparent and parent in class about domestic activities when they were children, and the roles different members of their families had.
  • Write a diary entry about domestic roles from an historic era.

Provided Resources

  • Day-to-day roles chart
  • Diary entries for sorting

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

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