Fighting the Romans. Task nº5: Helping Primus.

While the class and me were working on the previous tasks I realized they were curious about one issue present in the text: the druids and their magic powers.

So I decided to prepare a webquest to allow them to inquiry about these enigmatic characters.

The conductor character for the webquest is Primus, a spanish born roman soldier of the British Legion, who is very afraid of the Druids powers. ¿Could we help him to find an amulet for such magic?

Here is the link to the webquest. I hope you enjoy it….

Fighting the Romans. Task nº4: Boudicca´s puzzles.

We had worked on Boudicca´s story. It was time to see what we had learnt...

* We divided the class in 4 groups of 5 pupils each (the groups for this month).

* Every group had to create two puzzles based on the vocabulary of the Boudicca´s story script, using the tool: Discovery School PuzzleMaker. This is the link.

* Once they had created them, the agent of every group had to print 3 copies of each of his or her group´s puzzles using the class printer. Then he or she gave one copy to the agent of other 3 groups.

Each group must solve the puzzles created by the other groups in 30 minutes.

Target Grades: 6^th (A and B)

Schedule: Two hour sessions. 09/12/2015, 11/12/2015.

Assessment items: - accuracy in the words selected for the puzzles and their definitions; - resolution in time of the puzzles proposed by the other groups.

[Here are two samples of exercises sent by the pupils]

The nouns of Boudicca

Across

3. Female divinity.

5. Organized group of soldiers.

6. Female person that owns a big amount of land where she is the ruler.

Down

1. Ruler of big extension of terrain containing several countries or regions.

2. Person in a group considered the reference if decision-making.

4. Person subdued to other person that considers him/her as a good.

Created by Puzzlemaker at DiscoveryEducation.com

Boudicca´s Verbs

K I H L P Q M C X U T H F A Y 

I C B A R T J W H H W E F G X 

L B B E S E V N G E A E D T V 

L J I T Y R E I D R A V R N C 

K E Y S O R F J T D B T U X M 

C M A Z K I I F E D Q P S C T 

O L L I H F V S O K Z J N E Z 

S K W G N Y T Y Y B N B F I S 

W C C D W R S S C A R E X B L 

A W M A O R E F F U S L T X E 

J A Y Y T K S J H V J R L B Q 

C V H D M T J A G N L K P C C 

O Z Q O D K A Z X J K J X A P 

S L X O C U O V P I A L F Q A 

E E M J Q N N P H R T W T T Q 

Find 11 of the main verbs worked in the Boudicca´s story, placed into this puzzle.

Created by Puzzlemaker at DiscoveryEducation.com

Fighting the Romans. Task nº3: Interviewing Boudicca´s Characters.

* For this task, we all were transformed into time travelling reporters. We had to interview the main Characters in Boudicca´s story: Boudicca, Addedo, Antonious and Centurion.

* We divided the class in 4 groups of 5 pupils each (the groups for this month) and each group had to design and carry out a short fiction interview to one of the main characters:

Group one (Represented by Claudia) – Boudicca.

Group two (Represented by Duna) – Addedo.

Group three (Represented by Pablo) – Antonious

Group four (Represented by Carmelo) – Centurion

* Every group had to write a consensus script of the interview.

* After they had write it, they had to choose two actors to play de roles of the interviewer and the character.

* They had to record the interview with the recording application in a smartphone, upload it into podmatic, and post the link into the class blog.

[Here you can download a sample recording with one of the interviews]

Target Grades: 6^th (A and B)

Schedule: Two hour sessions. 04/12/2015, 07/12/2015.

Assessment items: - participation in the debates to create the scripts; - grammatical and orthographical correction of the script; - quality of the oral expression in the recording.