Year 8 Homework BookletSpring Term – Native Americans, Suffragettes & The First

World War

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P1Spring 1-Task 1: Native Americans

To improve you need to:

Spring 1-Task 2: Native AmericansTo improve you need to:

Spring 1-Task 3: Women’s SuffrageTo improve you need to:

Spring 2-Task 4: Key words and source comparisonTo improve you need to:

Spring 2-Task 5: Caring for the sick in EdmontonTo improve you need to:

Spring 2-Task 6: Edmonton Green War memorial

Edmonton and remembering the Great War.To improve you need to:

Student reflection:I have completed some most all of the homework tasks to an unsatisfactory satisfactory good excellent standard.Next term I need to (pick three of the following):

o Hand homework in on time.o Spend more time on my history homeworko Use more facts in my explanationo Correct spelling mistakes (write the spellings here)

……………………………………………………………………………………o Read more about the topic to help my understanding.o Other…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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Task 1: Native Americans1

Match the pictures with the captions below. Write each caption under each picture.

• Traditional tepees• Some Native Americans lived in

longhouses• Native Americans learned to use

horses• Traditional clothing was highly

decorated

• Pocahontas and John Rolfe didn’t really look like the Disney characters!

• A Native American Shaman• Where Native American tribes lived• Dream-catchers• A Native American family

Extension: Link as many factors from the table above as you can.The factors that are linked are …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………………………...………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Task 2: Native Americans – Make your own tepee2

Create your own Tepee of Truth!• Create your own tepee.• Research ten facts about Native Americans and

decorate your tepee.• Write your facts below in preparation:

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Task 3: Women’s Suffrage

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Source comparisonFind the definitions for the following words:

Suffragette = ………………………………………………………………………………………………Emily Davison= …………………………………………………………………………………………..Propaganda= ………………………………………………………………………………………………martyr= ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Source AAn unsympathetic view of Emily Davison’s

death featured in the Daily Sketch (newspaper).Emily made the front pages, but only as an

afterthought to the race detail.

Source BA sympathetic view of Emily Davison’s death

featured in the Suffragette’s own magazine ‘The Suffragette’.

Read the story of Emily Davison using the websites at the back of the booklet. Look at the sources. They both are about Emily Davison but they each have a different opinion about Emily Davison.Use your inference skills to complete this paragraph.Watch the Youtube clip of this event. Does this help you decide whether Emily killed herself for the Suffragette cause or whether it was an accident? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVPTXmesMpo

Martyr or Mad woman?Source A shows Emily Davison ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..whereas Source B shows Emily Davison as……………………………………………………………………………………. .The two sources show different views of Emily Davison because ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Task 4 - Key word definitions, description and comparisons4

artillerybayonetNo Man’s Landtrenchwarfare

DESCRIBE this picture source using the key words above. Write in FULL SENTENCES to DESCRIBE.

This painting shows…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..DESCRIBE this picture source using the key words above. Write in FULL SENTENCES to DESCRIBE.

This photograph shows…………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..

How are the photographs above the same?

The sources are the same because …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..

How are the photographs above different?

The sources differ because………………………………….…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..

Extension:Write a shoprt paragraph, imaginging that you are a soldier in one of these pictures and you are writing a postcard home. Read about life in the trenches before you start so that you can write in a much detail as possible.

Dear ________________,…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..

Yours faithfully,

Task 5 - Caring for the injured in EdmontonDuring the First World War civilians not fighting on the front line also played an important part in

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winning the First World War. People in Edmonton played an important role in caring for injured soldiers.Your homework this week is to research (using the internet) into the role of these people and a very

important building that helped do this. A useful website is www.1900s.org.uk

The Edmonton Military HospitalThis picture shows:Today this building is known as_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________During the First World War this building was used to____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Use the website www.1900s.org.uk and the picture on the left to describe what the wounded soldiers wore when they travelled around Edmonton _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Why do you think these wounded men had this special uniform? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Doctors at Edmonton Military Hospital specialised in orthopaedic cases.What does an orthopaedic doctor specialise in?____________________________________________________________________________________What would have caused these injuries during World War One?______________________________________________________________________________________

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Your homework this week is to find out about this monument in Edmonton Green. You need to include:-A description of where it is-When it was built-Why it was built-Who built it

Task 6 - Edmonton and remembering the Great War

Edmonton Green, war memorial

Where is the Memorial?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________When was the memorial built?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Why was the memorial built?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Who built the memorial?_________________________________________________________________

Design your own memorial to the victims of World War One

Describe and explain each part of your design ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Draw your design here

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Extension exercises

Research one of these topics or a topic of your own choosing in more depth and create a 10 question quiz.1. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………6. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………7. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Answers:1) __________________ 2)____________________ 3)__________________ 4)__________________ 5)_________________6)____________________ 7)____________________ 8)___________________ 9)___________________ 10) ______________________

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Spring Term Homework Crossword

Across6. The leader of the Suffragette Movement.

Down1. A weapon that soldiers would carry.2. Where a soldier would live and fight from.3. The animal that helped the native Americans to hunt and travel4. The animal of which every part was used by the native Americans.5. Edmonton _________ hospital7. The name of the derby where Emily Davison died.

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Useful websitesTask 1: Native Americanshttp://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/native-americans

Task 2: Make your own tepeehttp://www.shelterpub.com/_shelter/www_teepee.html

Task 3: Women’s Suffragehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/history/britsuff/suffrage/revision/1/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2222512/The-100-year-mystery-suffragette-Emily-Davison-threw-kings-horse.html

Task 4: Key wordshttp://alphahistory.com/worldwar1/world-war-i-glossary/

Task 5: Caring for the sick in Edmontonwww.1900s.org.ukhttp://www.workhouses.org.uk/Edmonton/

Task 6: Edmonton Green War Memorialhttp://en.tracesofwar.com/article/6774/War-Memorial-Edmonton-Green.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_Green_Shopping_Centre

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