A Year 12 Teaching Strategy
Subject: Ancient History
Target: Middle and Lower Bands
Topic: Pompeii and Herculaneum
Outcomes: Students are able to a) find the key facts and important issues.
B) make point-form notes for later exam revision.
Resource: Core Text Book- Cities of Vesuvius - Pompeii and Herculaneum, P. Bradley
Method: Use (visual) Study Guides that directs the students to –
a) the facts and main issues in each paragraph.
B) record the key points – through a variety of activities
– under the syllabus dot point headings
Study-Guide Activities: (page_ , & para. _ given for each) …under the heading….. Complete
these sentences…/ Paste in the picture of…..around the picture record…./ Label the
following plan of…/ Write ‘According to Vitruvious’ then record his comments on…./ List
the…….found in…./ Make three points under each of the following…/ Write out the following
points…/ Cut and paste the following pictures….make four points under each…/ Design a
small mind map that shows…/ Make two points on…/ Write out the sentence starting
with…/ Explain what is a …/Under the heading….Summarise the part…./Paste the correct
picture next to…..and complete the descriptions or labels /Make three points on……………etc.