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Lesson 1
Key Questions
What do I know about Marshall Taylor? What do I think I know? What do I want to find out? What am I going to find out during this project? Can I find key places in his life on a map? When did he live? What can we begin to find out about Marshall Major Taylor from looking at photos and other primary pictorial sources?
Objectives
To ask questions
To use atlases to locate places and position places on a world map
To locate Marshall Taylor within wider historical chronological knowledge
To make deductions from primary evidence
Lesson 1 PowerPoint
WS L1 - World map
WS L1 - What am I going to find out
WS L2 - Pictures for lesson 2 (first three pictures)
Marking stickers:
L1 – Some good questions
L1 - Good mapwork
L1 - Good deductions
Lesson 2
Key Questions
What else can we find out about Marshall Major Taylor from looking at photos and other primary pictorial sources?
Objectives
To ask questions
To make deductions from more challenging primary and secondary pictorial evidence
To identify primary and secondary sources
Lesson 2 PowerPoint
WS L2 - Pictures for lesson 2
Marking stickers:
L2 - good at identifying pri and sec sources
L2 - Good (or great) deductions
History Target - Try to correctly identify primary and secondary sources
History Target - blank
L2 - GPQ
Lesson 3
Key Questions
Can we identify primary and secondary written sources? What can we find out from reading different primary and secondary sources?
Objectives
To ask questions
To make deductions from more challenging primary and secondary written evidence
To identify primary and secondary written sources
Lesson 3 PowerPoint
WS L3 Sources a-j in text boxes (for children to stick in books)
Marking stickers:
L3 - Some good deductions from written sources
L3 - Good at identifying written sources
History Target - Try to correctly identify primary and secondary sources
History Target - blank
L3 – Self-assessment
Lesson 4
Key Questions
What can we learn from Marshall Taylor’s own accounts of his life? Can we find the meanings of tricky language?
Objectives
Make notes
Identify key ideas/points
Infer writers' perspectives from what is written and from what is implied
Explore/learn new vocabulary
Lesson 4 PowerPoint
WS L4 - Vocabulary matching
WS L4 - Extracts 1-3 (for children to stick in books)
Marking stickers:
L4 - Good work on word definitions
L4 - Good work identifying key points
L4 - GPQ
Good notes
Lesson 5a
Key Questions
What can I learn about Marshall Taylor’s life from reading ‘Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist’? Can I group information into categories?
Objectives
To use key reading skills (skimming, scanning and detailed reading)
To locate information
To group information into categories
Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Illustrated by James E. Ransome)
Lesson 5 PowerPoint
WS L5a Grouping information
Marking stickers:
L5 Good - you have grouped information into categories
L5 - GPQ Which skill did you use
L5 GPQ Why does the book end on a ‘high’ point
Lesson 5b
Key Questions
What can I learn about Marshall Taylor’s life from reading ‘Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist’? Can I explain the role/relationship between these people and Marshall Taylor?
Objectives
To use key reading skills (skimming, scanning and detailed reading) to locate information
To summarise the relationship between Marshall Taylor and the various people referred to in the text
Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Illustrated by James E. Ransome)
Lesson 5 PowerPoint
Marking stickers:
L5b Good summary of relationships
GPQ L5b Who do you think this is
Lesson 6
Key Questions
What else can I learn from reading a website article about Major Taylor?
Objectives
Appraise a text quickly, deciding on its value, quality or usefulness
http://www.sln.org/pieces/silverman/taylor.htm
or use the MS Publisher booklet called Major Taylor
Marking stickers:
L6 - Good work identifying new facts
L6 - GPQ
Lesson 7
Key Questions
Can we make a timeline from lots of different sources?
Objectives
To recall, select and organise historical information
To place events in a chronological sequence
Lesson 7 PowerPoint
WS L7 Marshall Taylor timeline
Marking sticker:
L7 - Good sequencing and GPQ
Lesson 8
Key Questions
What do you think about the way Major Taylor was treated towards the end of his life? Why do you think this was? Do you think this would happen today?
Objectives
To distinguish between fact and opinion in historical evidence
To distinguish between positive and negative in historical evidence
To form opinions about evidence and draw conclusions from evidence
Lesson 8 PowerPoint
WS L8 Fact and opinion
Marking stickers:
L8 - Good fact and opinion work and GPQ
L8 - Good conclusions from evidence
Lesson 9
Key Questions
(9a) Who is Lewis Hamilton? (9b) How is he similar to Marshall Taylor? If Marshall Taylor lived today do you think he would be buried in an unmarked grave? What is one of the things that has caused the differences between their lives?
Objectives
Make notes on and use evidence from across a text (video) to explain events or ideas
To identify changes within and across different periods
Lessons 9a and 9b PowerPoint
Video clips (on website)
Wikipeida article / Publisher booklet
Marking stickers:
L9 - Good notes
L9 GPQ
Lesson 10
Key Questions
Can I write an essay about what I have learnt?
Objectives
To produce structured work
To select and combine information from different sources
To identify changes within and across different periods
Lesson 10 PowerPoint
Marking stickers:
L10 - Good organisation
L10 - Good use of range of sources
Woodberry Down
Who WAS MARSHALL TAYLOR?
Community Primary School
"Life is too short for a man to hold bitterness in his heart."
Marshall W. "Major" Taylor
