Year 8 Crusades
Year 8 Crusades
Year 8 Crusades
Learning purpose:
Enable an understand of the significant developments of the crusades and effects that the
Crusades had on the Wests social classes, religious scene, economic and political features.
Group work will designate a scribe to write down the rest of the groups ideas as they can
remember them.
No need for extension activity as the time allows only for small group work followed by a
class discussion
Have awareness of students who may not remember as much from the video, or have
anxiety about getting involved in the group work.
Make sure at least a few ideas from every group is heard by the class.
Lesson Evaluation:
Overall my lesson went for 25 minutes, my initial challenge was as the kids
walked into the room they were surprised by the seating changes. The ASD
student had trouble with adjusting to the seating plan. I managed this by
comforting him and saying they he could work on his own and only if he
some great questions and ideas. The other distraction was a boy who had a
fight at lunch came in, in tears, so Emily dealt with that as I started the
class.
I had a little bit of trouble settling the class down as they adjusted to me
being the teacher for that period, but I persisted until they acknowledged me
well. I presented the topic of Crusades and probably wasnt clear enough
snowballed from me telling them to sort a scribe out in their own group, into
the activity of remembering everything from the video. I had a lot of great
feedback and most of the students remembered the important dates and
I felt I rushed the opening introduction to the topic but my closing questions
crusades.