Scott McEwan
Improving Literacy
in
Social Subjects
Context
The literacy project will be centred on
the Jacobites unit which is taught to S2
pupils. I will focus on three areas of
development.
• Improving basic and extended responses.
• Understanding and using key terms.
• Developing the skill of summarising.
How do I go about it?
• STEP 1 - Methods
• Picture Notes
• Writing Guide
• Exit Passes
• Important Words
Improving basic
and extended writing responses
Understanding Key Terms
Developing Summarising Skills
How do I go about it?
• STEP 2 – Support Mechanisms
• Jacobite Pyramid.
• Self and peer assessment exercises for
grammar/content.
Improving Basic and Extended
Responses
• Picture Notes
The King decided to launch an attack on the MacDonalds
Improving Basic and Extended
Responses
• Writing Guides
Guide for more able pupils
Writing a short essay in History.
You should include;
•Introduction – Mention what your essay is going to be about and what
the reader will discover in your three paragraphs.
•Main Section – This will include three paragraphs:
-Before the battle
-The battle and reasons for British success
-Charles retreats from the battlefield.
•Conclusion – Sum up your essay and give an opinion on why the British
won at Culloden.
Improving Basic and Extended
Responses
• Writing Guides
Guide for less able pupils
Writing a short essay in History.
You should include;
Introduction – Tell the reader what your essay is going to be about. Mention any dates and people
that will be in your essay.
Main Section – This will include three paragraphs:
-Paragraph one. Tell the reader about what was happening before the battle. Include the sizes
of each army and the battlefield.
-Paragraph two. Show the reader the facts about the battle. What did the British do that was
successful and what mistakes did the Jacobites make?
-Paragraph 3. How did the battle end? Let the reader know what events took place at the end
of the battle. Remember to mention Charles leaving and the amount of dead Jacobites.
•Conclusion – Sum up your essay and give an opinion on who at Culloden and why they won.
Look closely at the Key Words below that may help your write your answer.
Charles
Duke of Cumberland
Stab Right
Wall
Murray
Safety
Cannons
Flat Marshy Ground
Culloden Moor
Understanding Key Terms
• Exit Passes
HISTORY EXIT PASS
Write down what the following words mean
Succession
Heir
……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Monarch ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Developing Summarising Skills
• Important words
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15
Summary
Support Mechanisms
• Topic Pyramid/Cube
Jacobite –
Supporter of James
Law of Succession –
Eldest son receives the throne
Act of Union –
The uniting of the Scottish and English
Parliaments in 1707
Hanoverian Succession –
The Parliament asks George of Hanover
to take the throne rather than James VII catholic
son James
Claim of Right –
List of rules set down by Parliament banning Catholics
from being King or Queen
TERMS WE SHOULD KNOW
Primary Source –
A source from the time
an event happened.
Examples could be a diary,
picture or a painting.
These sources
are useful because they
are eyewitness accounts of what really happened.
Secondary Source –
A source of information that is produced after an event has
happened. An example could be a book written about the Bonnie
Prince Charlie in 2008. These are useful sources because they
consider lots of different points of view and they know the full story.
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Name___________________
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S1/S2 HISTORY - Jotter Standards Checklist
AGREE
All work is dated and titled
All work has the Learning
Outcome at the top of the
page
All answers are written in full
sentences containing some of
the words from the questions
Spelling and punctuation are
correct
Sentences are not started with –
he, she, they, because or and
PARTLY AGREE
DISAGREE