2 – The birth of Avonmouth Village
(and the significance of Avonmouth during World War l)
Aim – to produce lesson plans that are;
- cross curricular
- linked to Avonmouth
- making use of the local environment
- tailored to each year group
Possible activities - Based on Ordnance Survey maps
- Transport through time - trams, rail, buses, boats – choosing favourite mode of transport and justifying choice
- Changing houses in Avonmouth
mapping different houses, numbers of houses over time/in the future (Art and literacy links), street names
- Thunderbirds mention Avonmouth in Thunderbirds book of cross sections –
What is the significance of Avonmouth in this context?
Design a Thunderbird vehicle that utilises landscape of area
- What facilities were needed when Avonmouth was developed?
What would pupils want/ need in a new settlement? Compare church, school, smithy of 1902 OS map with current facilities?
What is there and what has gone and why?
- Disaster – Floods of 1968 – script writing, imaginative writing, oral testimonies
- Forecast for the future
How will Avonmouth have changed over the next 100 years?
Pictures of specific areas, maps, written/ spoken descriptions.
- Persuasive speech to prevent building development on a particular site.
Producing an argument to retain a building, area
Possible activities - Based on World War l
- To describe journey/ Avonmouth from horse’s perspective
- Rupert Brooke’s last view of England from hotel in Avonmouth.
produce sonnet based on
The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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- Rupert Brooke vs Percy Toplis – link to class differences
Links
http://www.shire.org.uk/news/200611/body.htm#The_Great_War,_Remount_Camp_1914-1918_
http://www.shire.org.uk/news/200701/body.htm#The Remount Section - A Further Footnote
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/brooke/
http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Brooke.html
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