- Brainstorm pupils' knowledge of a famous historical individual (gained through study of another unit or at key stage 2, or through experiences outside school). Ask the pupils to use cards to sort and classify the individuals according to their main known activity and what they did,
eg leader, explorer, inventor.
- Introduce the idea of why certain individuals have been 'famous', and, therefore, 'remembered'. Give pupils 'sentence stem slips' to complete,
eg Because they ... were powerful/made things better/helped win a war. Ask the pupils to reclassify the historical individuals under the different sentence starters.
- Draw out pupils' best ideas about why only certain people become famous,
eg because they played some part in changing events. Ask pupils to identify similar features in all the people's lives, ie define criteria. Ask pupils to apply the criteria to check if they are valid and appropriate.
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- recall and use previous knowledge of famous individuals in history
- select and classify individuals according to roles
- identify and analyse common characteristics
- demonstrate understanding by placing new information in the context of existing knowledge
- reinforce conceptual understanding with reasons for why certain individuals become famous
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