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Thinking Skills Grid – …

Thinking Skills Grid – …. INTERESTING RESPONSE What have I found Interesting about …?. EMOTIONAL RESPONSE What would I LOVE And HATE about ….?. NEGATIVE RESPONSE The bad points about …. POSITIVE RESPONSE The good points about …. CREATIVE RESPONSE Draw pictures. OVERVIEW

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Thinking Skills Grid – …

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  1. Thinking Skills Grid – … INTERESTINGRESPONSE What have I found Interesting about …? EMOTIONALRESPONSE What would I LOVE And HATE about ….? NEGATIVE RESPONSE The bad points about … POSITIVE RESPONSE The good points about …. CREATIVERESPONSE Draw pictures OVERVIEW RESPONSE How … do you think … were overall?

  2. Thinking Skills Grid – Living Conditions in the Industrial Revolution INTERESTINGRESPONSE What have I found Interesting about This topic? EMOTIONALRESPONSE What would I LOVE And HATE about Living conditions? NEGATIVE RESPONSE The bad points about Living Conditions POSITIVE RESPONSE The good points about Living conditions CREATIVERESPONSE Draw pictures OVERVIEW RESPONSE How deadly do you Think living Conditions were Overall?

  3. Into the mind of a medieval villager 1. Who was thinking each of the following? Fill in the grid with the letters of the thoughts – but be careful some thoughts fit in more than one column. Thoughts of people from 1100 Thoughts of people from 1500 Thoughts of people from 2010 A B C D E Only another week and We can get in the harvest. If we get more rain and we have Another bad harvest people will go Hungry this winter. Some folk might even starve to death. Thanks be to God for the monks at the monastery. If there’s No work of food prices are high we depend on Them to give us help. I’ve heard my grandfather talk about the olden days. Half the villagers Weren’t free to Leave the Village. They had to work On the Lord’s land Two days a week. God be praised; everyone’s free nowadays. My brother’s worried about his job. He copies out books for people to read and thinks this new Printing machine will put him out Of work. I’ve done well and live far More comfortably Than my father But with luck, and hard Work my sons Will do even better.

  4. Playing the game ‘TOO SIMPLE!” • This game uses students historical knowledge to challenge hypotheses. • It is important to specify the scale they are working on. For example are they expected to be able to relate the generalisation give to a source, story? Whole of UK? A village? Europe? A small region?

  5. TOO SIMPLE • Play this game by challenging the generalisation in the box. generalisation Why is it too simple? Year Eight, you have worked really well in today’s Lesson. • Who has worked well? Everyone? • What did they do ‘well’? Compared to who? • Does one spelling mistake ruin someone’ work? • Is there an exception? Who? Why? • Some groups might have done better. Life was hard and difficult during the Industrial Revolution • Too Simple! • Some people (e.g.)… • Some groups (e.g.)… • In some places… • Sometimes… • One exception….

  6. TOO SIMPLE • Play this game by challenging the generalisation in the box. generalisation Why is it too simple? Black people have always been treated harshly and unfairly. • Too Simple! • Some people (e.g.)… • Some groups (e.g.)… • In some places… • Sometimes… • One exception…. People who lived in the past were poor and thick. • Too Simple! • Some people (e.g.)… • Some groups (e.g.)… • In some places… • Sometimes… • One exception….

  7. TOO SIMPLE • Play this game by challenging the generalisation in the box. generalisation Why is it too simple? Black people have always been treated harshly and unfairly. • Too Simple! • Some people (e.g.)… • Some groups (e.g.)… • In some places… • Sometimes… • One exception…. • What is really meant by the word….in this period • In this period people would not have • experienced…. • This is a modern idea / experience… • There are economic / social / political reasons… • A better, more historical way might be to say… • It is true that…however there is also evidence • that…

  8. TOO SIMPLE • Devise your own dodgy generalisation… • Your challenge • Now make up a slightly dodgy generalisation of your own. Use it to challenge your partner. Try to set a trap. Write one that you is too simple and see if they can work out HOW it is too simple. • TIP: Make it sound ok on first reading! Don’t just write something really silly. That will be too easy. generalisation Why is it too simple?

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