This very active thinking skills lesson comprises three separate episodes. Firstly having listened to a brief teacher-told narrative, pupils have to sort events into the right sequence before going on to create their own living graph. This is followed by a history mystery in which pupils attempt their own explanation of this medieval puzzle. Finally, students predict what the explanation on a short video of the death of Becket should contain before going on to formally evaluate and then improve it.
Learning objectives
- Pupils can sequence key moments in the changing relationship of Becket and Henry
- They can analyse reasons and group them in different categories of their own design
- They evaluate a TV programme’s interpretation and then improve it.
Step 1
Tell the story of the changing relationship between Becket and Henry in outline focusing on the murder in the cathedral initially to grab attention and then fill in
