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It’s All Greek to Me
Winter
Class
Autumn 2
Cycle B
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It’s All Greek To Me
Winter Class
Cycle B
Autumn 2
Rationale: Children will apply their newly acquired knowledge and understanding of Ancient Greece to present their learning to an
audience. This project will give all the children opportunities to develop their ‘Higher Order Thinking’ and to demonstrate the skills they
will need in the future. As part of their evaluation of this work, the children will identify skills they have used from the ‘Learning
Toolbox’.
History
Literacy
Use Orpheus and Eurydice to identify language
and effects.
Hot seating and role play to identify similarities
and differences between characters.
Examine a variety of Ancient Greek myths and
identify common themes.
Read Orpheus and Eurydice to identify different
characters thoughts and feelings at key points in
the story.
Interview Orpheus, make notes and plan letter
writing.
Turn direct speech into reported speech.
Write letters from Orpheus to the God Hades.
Re order a paragraph in Orpheus’s letter to
improve her argument.
Select and retell an extract form Orpheus and
Eurydice orally.
Create own version of a known myth and prepare
to retell.
Retell own version of a known myth.
Revise spellings of common prefixes.
Planning of their mythical hero.
Create a plan for own myth using language
features.
Select, edit and improve own writing.
Complete their writing of own myth.
Outcome Activity:
The children will present their learning via a
PowerPoint presentation that shows an
awareness of audience.
Use postcards, maps, holiday brochures and
the internet to find out about feature of life in
Greece today.
Use historical sources, including artefacts and
the internet to find out about life in Ancient
Greece.
Know what ‘ancient’ means and can we place
dates for the civilization on a timeline
explaining terms BC and AD.
Locate Athens and Sparta on a map and use
physical features to explain why they grew up
separately and became rivals.
Learn about the Greek army and navy from
their pottery. Why did they need both?
Retell the story of the Battle of Marathon
from 2 different perspectives, an Athenian
soldier and either a Spartan or a Persian.
Explain how the Olympics developed.
Investigate the development of the Olympics
over the centuries.
Make own interpretation of the ancient
Olympic games. Compare modern and ancient
versions.
Geography
Name a range of physical features using pictorial evidence.
Select an area for study, investigating how its geography affects the
lives of different people,
Collect weather data for the region and compare its seasons and
weather patterns with ours
Investigate the impact of mountains on the history of Greece and on
life there today.
Art
Investigate techniques in sketchbooks, including ways of
representing scenes from Ancient Greece that depict life in
an ancient society.
Use clay to make Ancient Greek style pottery that depicts a
scene from Ancient Greece.
Compare and evaluate our work.
Thinking
Generate questions which can be
investigated.
Be able to solve problems in
different situations using important
Use a range of ‘higher order’ thinking
to develop their leaning.
Identify when they have used the
skills in the ‘Learning Toolbox’
Creativity
Generate a range of ideas and talk confidently
about them.
Embrace new challenges with perseverance,
flexibility and adaptability.
Develop inquisitiveness and curiosity for the
immediate locality and the wider world.
Hook: A
performance of a
Greek Tragedy
followed by
authentic Greek
food.
It’s All Greek to Me
Using historical sources, including artefacts and the
internet to find out about life in Ancient Greece.
These are some of the activities your child will
be carrying out this term:
Locating Athens and Sparta on a
map and using physical features
to explain why they grew up
separately and became rivals.
Write a myth.
Reading Orpheus and Eurydice to identify different characters
thoughts and feelings at key points in the story.
Try Greek food, write and
perform a Greek tragedy.
Investigating techniques in sketchbooks, including ways of representing
Ancient Greek society and then make their own pottery.
Investigating the development
of the Olympics over the
centuries.
Writing letters
from Orpheus
to the God
Hades.
Comparing different
Ancient Greek
myths.
Outcome Activity: The children will present their learning on
PowerPoint showing an awareness of audience on Monday 2nd
December at 1:15pm in the hall.
Winter
Class
Revising spellings
of common
prefixes.
Learning about the
Greek army and
navy from their
pottery.
Investigating the impact of
mountains on the history of Greece
and on life there today.
Home Learning Activity.
Please could children make a 3D model that develops their understanding of
Ancient Greece. This could be a model Parthenon, an Ancient Greek helmet or a
shield, the choice is yours! Please could it be completed by Friday 15th November.
Autumn 2
Cycle B