Learning Resources by Subject
English
Writing
A sheet on which children can make predictions for Enthralled: A Viking Saga. (Slight spoilers for Ch. 1-3)
A planning sheet for a creative writing exercise about children going back in time. There is room for vocab planning (e.g. alliteration, similes etc.) as well as story and character planning. (Slight spoilers for Ch. 1-4)
A detailed presentation about Norse society structure: Jarls, Karls and Thralls, with a focus on thralls (slaves). Information about conjunctions and a writing task in which they are the thrall from Ch. 5. Heavy scaffolding for the task as a starter or as support for students who would struggle.
A presentation about Skalds (Norse storytellers, singers and poets), Kennings (Norse poetic metaphors) and fronted adverbials, with an activity for students to create their own kennings and a heavy scaffold/madlibs activity for descriptive writing using fronted adverbials.
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A presentation about how museums and historians in general learn about the past, with a look at different types of sources and bias. Two tasks - one a practical and written archaeology task in which children take on the role of archaeologists and the second a diary writing task from different point of view to examine bias.
An activity in which children write a blurb about Enthralled, using their descriptive skills and persuasive writing.
A review activity to help children think about story characters and what makes them entertaining.
A presentation about the Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Empire, which was made up mostly of Norsemen. A task in which students write a letter to the Emperor, applying for a job in the Guard.