The Plains Indians
An investigation into the life of the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century.
Natasha Archer, Katy Aldred and Hannah Trembath produced a Powerpoint presentation which they presented before the class.
Here their presentation has been converted into web pages so that you can see it on-line.
The presentation can be viewed as linked pages with their spoken explanation shown below each slide - the structure is self-explanatory, and if you hold the mouse over any of the buttons in the control bar underneath a tool-tip will pop up to explain its function.
Or the presentation can be viewed as a full screen slide show by clicking this button in the control bar: 
.
In the slide show you will need to click your mouse to move onto each succeeding slide
- and if you would like to have a copy of their spoken notes you can find them here.
View: The Plains Indians
The First World War
'Newspaper' exercises:
1.
Sarajevo, June 1914, the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand... the task was to write a front page report from the national perspective of any of the great powers.
This was Alastair Robertson's
British newspaper of June 29, 1914. [76k .pdf]
Here is Michael Merritt's
'Austrian' newspaper of June 29, 1914. [48k .pdf]
2.
The task was to review the war effort at the end of 1915, assessing the main battles to date, developments in technology, and the state of Britain.
This was James Neal's ‘newspaper’
from December 1915. [23k .pdf]
Report for the Prime Minister: October 1916...
How is the war going for Britain, how can it be won?
Three experts advise David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister:
Sam Galson's Report [303k .pdf - BIG!]
Michael Merritt's Report [157k .pdf - BIG!]
Chesca Lord's Report [184k .pdf - BIG!]
The Home Front in World War II
For the past eight years some pupils in the Third Year (Year 9) have interviewed people they know about life in Britain during the Second World War. These interviews give a remarkable picture of those times. The interviews can be searched for key words and comparisons made.
This program requires Authorware Web Player to run,
which you can download from the Adobe
website. [184kb]
Click here:
Click here for:
Home Front Interviews by the class of 1998
Home Front Interviews by the class of 1999
Home Front Interviews by the class of 2000
Home Front Interviews by the class of 2001
Home Front Interviews by the class of 2002
Home Front Interviews by the class of 2003
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Martin Luther King has a public holiday in his memory in the U.S. - the third Monday in January. To some Black Americans, Malcolm X was a more important voice. Both were assassinated.
Third Year students had to prepare a presentation which showed the importance of either of these two to the Civil Rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. Time was limited: they had an hour and a half to find material and put together their presentation. The presentations have been converted into web pages here so that you can see them on-line.
Each presentation can be viewed as linked pages. If you hold the mouse over any of the buttons in the control bar underneath a tool-tip will pop up to explain its function.
Or the presentation can be viewed as a full screen slide show by clicking this button in the control bar: .
In the slide show you will need to click your mouse to move onto each succeeding slide
View Alasdair Selmes and Lewis
Tracy on Martin Luther King
View Vicki Ward on Malcolm X
News Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights
How did some of the important developments of the Struggle for Civil Rights for the Black People of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s capture attention?
The task was to take one incident that made a significant impact at the time and to produce a front page newspaper story 'as it happened'.
Here is:
Charlotte Lawrie, Isabel Story and Alison Buckley
on a Lunch Counter sit-in in 1960;
Alex King on the Death of Martin Luther King Jr.