Welcome to History

Starting S1

Learning Objective

•To look at the rules of the classroom

•To be ready for the next lesson

Rules

•If you could come up with two rules for the classroom what would they be?

•You will have five minutes to write down your rules

Your Jotters•On the front of your

Jotters put •Your Name•History•Mr. Roberts

My Rules•Come into the

classroom and leave the classroom with the correct equipment

•Always do what you are asked the first time

Quiz Time•How many

years are then in a

•Decade•Century•Millennium

In History you are In History you are expected to write in full expected to write in full sentencessentences

Answer these questions Answer these questions in your jotterin your jotter

Each sentence will Each sentence will begin with - begin with -

There are ... years in There are ... years in a ...a ...

Quiz Time•How many years are then in a •Decade 10•Century 100•Millennium 1000

Dates• Dates are really important in history and you need

to know how they work• A date will either have BC after the number or AD in

front of the number• What do you think BC and AD mean? Write the

answers in your jotters• BC means Before Christ and refers to the years

before Jesus was born• AD is a Latin term meaning Anno Domini and means

the Year of our Lord and refers to the years after Jesus was born

1BC AD1 AD20132013BC

• As BC dates get closer to 1BC the numbers get smaller (just like negative numbers in maths)

• As AD dates move away from AD1 they get bigger (just like positive numbers in maths)

What year What year followed -followed -

55 BC55 BC10 BC10 BCAD 25AD 25

AD 1066AD 1066

Centuries•Each century lasts 100 years•The First Century lasted from the

1st of January AD1 to the 31st of December AD100

•The Second Century lasted from the 1st of January AD101 to the 31st of December AD200

When was the When was the 33rdrd Century? Century?

Pair Work?•In what centuries were the following

years?AD 989AD 567AD 1066AD 1215AD 1666AD 1900

AD 98AD 2013AD 2255

There is an easy way to There is an easy way to work out what century a work out what century a

year belongs inyear belongs in

Take the number 1975Take the number 1975

Split it into to 19 / 75Split it into to 19 / 75

Add 1 to the first number Add 1 to the first number and you get the century and you get the century

1975 = 19 + 1 = 20 = 1975 = 19 + 1 = 20 = 2020thth Century Century

This doesn’t This doesn’t work with work with

years ending years ending in 00. In in 00. In

these cases, these cases, you simply you simply

take the first take the first number so number so

500 would be 500 would be in the 5in the 5thth CenturyCentury

AD 989 Tenth CenturyAD 567 Sixth Century

AD 1066 Eleventh CenturyAD 1215 Thirteenth CenturyAD 1666 Seventeenth

CenturyAD 1900 Nineteenth Century

AD 98 First CenturyAD 2013 Twenty-First

CenturyAD 2255 Twenty-Third

Century