Thinking Skills Grid – …

INTERESTINGRESPONSE

What have I foundInteresting about

…?

POSITIVE RESPONSE

The good points about….

EMOTIONALRESPONSE

What would I LOVEAnd HATE about

….?

CREATIVERESPONSE

Draw pictures

NEGATIVERESPONSE

The bad points about…

OVERVIEW RESPONSE

How … do youthink … were

overall?

Thinking Skills Grid – Living Conditions in the Industrial Revolution

INTERESTINGRESPONSE

What have I foundInteresting about

This topic?

POSITIVE RESPONSE

The good points aboutLiving conditions

EMOTIONALRESPONSE

What would I LOVEAnd HATE about

Living conditions?

CREATIVERESPONSE

Draw pictures

NEGATIVERESPONSE

The bad points aboutLiving Conditions

OVERVIEW RESPONSE

How deadly do youThink living

Conditions wereOverall?

Into the mind of a medieval villager1. Who was thinking each of the following? Fill in the grid with

the letters of the thoughts – but be careful some thoughts fit in more than one column.

Thoughts of people from 1100

Thoughts of people from 1500

Thoughts of people from 2010

AOnly another

week and We can get in

the harvest.If we get more rain

and we haveAnother bad

harvest peoplewill go Hungry

this winter.Some folk might

even starve to death.

BThanks be to

God for the monks at

the monastery. If there’s

No work of food pricesare high wedepend on Them to

give us help.

CI’ve heard my

grandfather talk about the olden days. Half the

villagersWeren’t free to

Leave theVillage. They had to work

On the Lord’s landTwo days a week.

God bepraised; everyone’s

free nowadays.

DMy brother’s

worriedabout his job. He copies out

booksfor people to

read and thinks

this newPrinting machine

will put him outOf work.

E

I’ve done well and live far

More comfortably

Than my fatherBut with luck,

and hardWork my sons

Will do even better.

Playing the game ‘TOO SIMPLE!”

• This game uses students historical knowledge to challenge hypotheses.

• It is important to specify the scale they are working on. For example are they expected to be able to relate the generalisation give to a source, story? Whole of UK? A village? Europe? A small region?

TOO SIMPLE• Play this game by challenging the generalisation

in the box.

generalisation Why is it too simple?

Year Eight, you haveworked really well in

today’s Lesson.

• Who has worked well? Everyone?• What did they do ‘well’? Compared to who?• Does one spelling mistake ruin someone’ work?• Is there an exception? Who? Why?• Some groups might have done better.

Life was hard anddifficult during the

Industrial Revolution

Too Simple!• Some people (e.g.)…• Some groups (e.g.)…• In some places…• Sometimes…• One exception….

TOO SIMPLE• Play this game by challenging the generalisation

in the box.

generalisation Why is it too simple?

Black peoplehave always been

treated harshly andunfairly.

• Too Simple!• Some people (e.g.)…• Some groups (e.g.)…• In some places…• Sometimes…• One exception….

People who livedin the past werepoor and thick.

• Too Simple!• Some people (e.g.)…• Some groups (e.g.)…• In some places…• Sometimes…• One exception….

TOO SIMPLE• Play this game by challenging the generalisation

in the box.

generalisation Why is it too simple?

Black peoplehave always been

treated harshly andunfairly.

• Too Simple!• Some people (e.g.)…• Some groups (e.g.)…• In some places…• Sometimes…• One exception….

• What is really meant by the word….in this period• In this period people would not haveexperienced….• This is a modern idea / experience…• There are economic / social / political reasons…• A better, more historical way might be to say…• It is true that…however there is also evidence that…

TOO SIMPLE• Devise your own dodgy generalisation…• Your challenge• Now make up a slightly dodgy generalisation of your own.

Use it to challenge your partner. Try to set a trap. Write one that you is too simple and see if they can work out HOW it is too simple.

• TIP: Make it sound ok on first reading! Don’t just write something really silly. That will be too easy.

generalisation Why is it too simple?