Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

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.

English

Discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write.
Discuss ideas; Organise paragraphs around a theme.
Assess the effectiveness of others’ writing and suggest improvements.

Lesson Planning

Learn about Bede’s ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’ and ‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles’. Write your own Anglo-Saxon Chronicle page.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand the important sources for the history of Anglo-Saxon Britain written by Anglo-Saxons.
To use notes from Session 1 in the Invasions block to create a page for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Children will:

Describe 2 important sources of history of Anglo-Saxon times.
Understand the importance of these sources to our understanding of the history of Britain.
Write their own page for an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Planning

Provided Resources

Bede’s autobiography
Pages from different manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Historian by John Kitching

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Berol medium italic handwriting pens or similar

Weblinks

Information about Bede from bbc.co.uk
Museum about Bede from jarrowhall.org.uk
Text of Bede’s work from fordham.edu
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from bbc.com
Why the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain from bbc.com