teaching Resources and worksheets
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This is an extensive lesson plan (on the left). Teachers should select only the parts they wish to use or have time to teach in one term or half a term.
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| british_museum_benin_teacher_resources_nov2015_1.pdf |
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BENIN - THE FINAL DAYS
Burning of Benin contains extracts from the diary of Captain Bacon written in 1897 during the Benin Punitive Expedition.
Burning of Benin activities provide a range of stimulating activities to use with this.
The reading comprehension booklet contains Year 6 SATs style questions involving retrieving and recording information, summarising main ideas, drawing inference, explaining and justifying with evidence from the text.
Solutions to questions can be found in the answers booklet.
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| burning_of_benin_reading_comprehension_booklet.docx |
| burning_of_benin_reading_comprehension_booklet_-_answers.docx |
| picture_talks_naval_rankings.pptx |
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1) KWL chart. Use this frame for initial assessment of individual student's knowledge of the topic. Use it as an ongoing record of student's learning during study of the topic. It can also be used as evidence of student's learning on the topic.
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2) Mind map frame. Brain storm areas of study with the class and record these on this chart. You can add more areas if needed.
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3) Map of areas of influence of Kingdom of Benin
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4) Sources of historical evidence.
This file can be used as a class or group information reading text on sources of historical evidence. Sources can be discussed and rated for reliability. Photographs included in it are also in the discussion photos gallery under Teachers section for download. These can be used for Picture Talk activities. Suggested discussion questions are:
Extension: Together as a class/ group, compose a sentence on a photograph e.g. This tourist is travelling on a London bus to Oxford Circus in Central London. Discuss use of capital letters in the sentence. Further activities ideas can be found in the download file below this one. |
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5) Historical Records comprehension questions
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6) Travel back in time to the 15th century, you have been asked by His Majesty The Oba to produce advertisement posters that will be sent to Europe to encourage traders to come and trade with the kingdom. You have been given the frames to work with. You can change the images on the frame and/ or add to them. Your poster must increase trade to the kingdom.Good luck.
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7) News report. Write a news report about a visitor interested in trading with the kingdom.
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8) Compare and contrast Oba of Benin with Egyptian Pharaoh.
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9) Bini Creation Story.
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10) Story map and writing frames. Students can use the frames below to illustrate and retell the creation story above. The frames can also be used to retell other stories relating to the topic.
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11) Plaque frames. Students could use the frames below to produce their own plaques for different occasions in the kingdom of Benin e.g. to depict a foreign visitor in audience with His Majesty or a chief coming back from war or on a victory parade. The frames could also be used for students' own experiences e.g. receiving an ward at school assembly or a mayor's visit to the local area. Students will need to plan what event they wish to show and the characters to include, draw a sketch first before depicting the final scene on the plaque frame. This activity supports Art and Design NC requirements at Key Stages 2 and 3.
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12) Chief Blacksmith commission. His Majesty requires a record of the annual Igue Festival. He has asked the palace chief blacksmith to produce this. The blacksmith will need to attend the festival for the nine days, he will need to note down events that are interesting and relate to His Majesty's specifications and requirements. He can use a combination of writing and drawing to record events as they happen. At the end of the nine days, he must decide on which aspects of important royal events to include and in addition to the king, who else to include in his plaque composition.
Task: students in role as the chief blacksmith use the diary below to record selected events as they happen to help them produce the royal plaque. Page 1 is for writing and page 2 for drawings.
Students can use ideas from YouTube videos on Igue Festival or use their own ideas.
Tip: the plaque must glorify the king.
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13) Queen Mother (Iyoba) 1506 - 1550
'Women do not go to war except Idia the mother of Esigie.' A Benin saying.
Few women in world history have successfully led an army to defend their country's sovereignty. Idia is one of them. She led the kingdom's army in numerous wars, taking decisive actions to defeat the enemy. She possessed both knowledge of war tactics and application of medicine to heal the wounded. This pamphlet presents some of her achievements.
The pamphlet is in two formats. (Click on this sub title to view it on a web page.)
Suggested activities:
LO: To compose sentences (simple and compound sentences).
Use these activities to showcase your students' creativity in art and writing.
Art: Tweeter and Facebook friends. Students can draw faces of characters on the plaques in the photo gallery section as friends.
Writing: Tweeter and Facebook feeds. Students can summarise their knowledge of incidences and events in Benin history through their posts and friends reply as below.
Queen Idia on Tweeter
Queen Idia: Setting off for Udo this pm, any ideas on where to camp for the night?
Friends: Iyase (prime minister): We can keep going until sunset and camp at any suitable space.
Head of Army: Ekpon is about 50 miles form Benin, perhaps we can stop there to plan the next part of the journey.
Queen Idia: What does everyone else think?
Marking: check for
Tasks
1) Produce an illustrated booklet on 'The King's Mother' (Iyoba).
1a) Write a seven word biography on Queen Mother Idia. Example: Passionate about the King and Benin kingdom.
1c) Summarise Queen Mother idia in two words. Example: Awesome warrior.
1d) Write adjectives around Queen Mother Idia brass head to describe her personality.
1e) Colour in the map of Nigeria showing Queen Mother Idia war areas including countries on its borders and the Atlantic Ocean. Which colours will you use for land, forest and the sea?
Tweeter and Facebook
Additional LO: To write a personality profile of a person or character.
2) Imagine you are one of the Benin soldiers sent on the Udo mission. Send daily tweets on the royal army progress. What are you happy about? What surprises you? What is not going to well. remember you have to use 140 characters to do so.
3) Complete a Facebook page for Oba Esigie, the Queen Mother Idia or one of the soldiers:
Who are your friends?
What conversation do you engage in?
What images will you as the Queen mother or soldier upload to keep your friends informed.
You can use the blank tweeter and facebook pages below.
Remember that people's tweets and their facebook conversations show their personality and what they are really like. Your entries should reveal what your character is really like. So choose an incident or event from the pamphlet which will help you show this.
'Women do not go to war except Idia the mother of Esigie.' A Benin saying.
Few women in world history have successfully led an army to defend their country's sovereignty. Idia is one of them. She led the kingdom's army in numerous wars, taking decisive actions to defeat the enemy. She possessed both knowledge of war tactics and application of medicine to heal the wounded. This pamphlet presents some of her achievements.
The pamphlet is in two formats. (Click on this sub title to view it on a web page.)
- One can be printed and photocopied as an A5 booklet for individual students.
- The other can be used as a whole text for whole class work or as the teacher desires.
Suggested activities:
LO: To compose sentences (simple and compound sentences).
- To select vocabulary for effect (select words with same or similar meaning).
- To use appropriate punctuation in sentences (capital letters, full stops, comma).
Use these activities to showcase your students' creativity in art and writing.
Art: Tweeter and Facebook friends. Students can draw faces of characters on the plaques in the photo gallery section as friends.
Writing: Tweeter and Facebook feeds. Students can summarise their knowledge of incidences and events in Benin history through their posts and friends reply as below.
Queen Idia on Tweeter
Queen Idia: Setting off for Udo this pm, any ideas on where to camp for the night?
Friends: Iyase (prime minister): We can keep going until sunset and camp at any suitable space.
Head of Army: Ekpon is about 50 miles form Benin, perhaps we can stop there to plan the next part of the journey.
Queen Idia: What does everyone else think?
Marking: check for
- correct use of capital letters (sentence start, for proper nouns) and end punctuation
- Grammatically correct sentences.
- Use of comma (list, demarcate sentences etc)
- Check spellings
Tasks
1) Produce an illustrated booklet on 'The King's Mother' (Iyoba).
1a) Write a seven word biography on Queen Mother Idia. Example: Passionate about the King and Benin kingdom.
1c) Summarise Queen Mother idia in two words. Example: Awesome warrior.
1d) Write adjectives around Queen Mother Idia brass head to describe her personality.
1e) Colour in the map of Nigeria showing Queen Mother Idia war areas including countries on its borders and the Atlantic Ocean. Which colours will you use for land, forest and the sea?
Tweeter and Facebook
Additional LO: To write a personality profile of a person or character.
2) Imagine you are one of the Benin soldiers sent on the Udo mission. Send daily tweets on the royal army progress. What are you happy about? What surprises you? What is not going to well. remember you have to use 140 characters to do so.
3) Complete a Facebook page for Oba Esigie, the Queen Mother Idia or one of the soldiers:
Who are your friends?
What conversation do you engage in?
What images will you as the Queen mother or soldier upload to keep your friends informed.
You can use the blank tweeter and facebook pages below.
Remember that people's tweets and their facebook conversations show their personality and what they are really like. Your entries should reveal what your character is really like. So choose an incident or event from the pamphlet which will help you show this.
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14) Kingdom of Benin Short Stories tasks
Download the booklet below for students to complete after reading the short stories. The activities will help improve their reading comprehension and writing skills.
Download the booklet below for students to complete after reading the short stories. The activities will help improve their reading comprehension and writing skills.
15) Diary of An Edo Princess
This book contains reading comprehension questions and activities to accompany the Diary of An Edo Princess. The activities are suitable for students in key Stage 2 (7 - 11 year old).
The comprehension questions cover literal level (Thinking back - Why is the princess keeping a diary?); interpretive level (Thinking about it - Find a reason why the princess thinks so.) and applied level (Thinking it through - Describe how the people preserve their history.).
The activities are designed to help develop students research and writing skills. These fun cross-curricular activities will engage all abilities of students. Download book and worksheets below.
This book contains reading comprehension questions and activities to accompany the Diary of An Edo Princess. The activities are suitable for students in key Stage 2 (7 - 11 year old).
The comprehension questions cover literal level (Thinking back - Why is the princess keeping a diary?); interpretive level (Thinking about it - Find a reason why the princess thinks so.) and applied level (Thinking it through - Describe how the people preserve their history.).
The activities are designed to help develop students research and writing skills. These fun cross-curricular activities will engage all abilities of students. Download book and worksheets below.
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16) Watch the video below and summarise the key points in an information text or booklet.
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17) Project evaluation sheet. |
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18) revised primary history kingdom of benin
This book contains historical information to support teaching of this unit.
It is an edited and updated version of the first edition published in 2013. It contains more students activities and additional information. The photographs in the book are available to download for whole class teaching from this website in the Teachers section here.
This book can be purchased from the Amazon links above.
It is an edited and updated version of the first edition published in 2013. It contains more students activities and additional information. The photographs in the book are available to download for whole class teaching from this website in the Teachers section here.
This book can be purchased from the Amazon links above.
