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Shang writing

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 a depth study of The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China.
  • They should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

English

  • Children will learn to retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction.

Lesson Planning

Address research questions about writing and oracle bones in the past; research some Shang characters found on oracle bones; work out the meaning of Shang characters.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To learn how and why people in the Shang Dynasty wrote.
  • To add Shang characters to the Chinese-English dictionary.

Children will:

  • Address research questions about writing and oracle bones in the past.
  • Research some Shang characters found on oracle bones.
  • Work out the meaning of Shang characters.

Provided Resources

  • Shang writing and oracle bones
  • Examples of characters found on oracle bones
  • How Chinese characters have changed from the Shang era to the present day

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

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