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.

Fighting the Romans. Task nº1: The Verbs of Boudicca.

This is the first task ralated to Boudicca´s story

At home, the puplis listened to the podcast by the BBC about the story of Boudicca two or three times. They had to write down all the verbs they heard.

When they´ve finished, they had to access the public document created in the class drive of the gmail email address called: “The verbs of Boudicca” . In it they should add their recognized verbs to the list, in alphabetic order. Here is the link.

The day after in class we reviewed and debated the list and corrected and completed it, at the same time as we worked with the meaning of the verbs.

Target Grades: 6th Grade (A and B)

Schedule: One hour session. 25/11/2015.

Assessment items: - verbs provided to the list; - participation in the debates; - participation in the meaning research.