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Teaching
points
Introduction:
Students
should be reminded of some of the key points
to the peoples charter and the motives of
the Luddites. Make it clear to students which
parts of the section you want them to read
about and do activities on: pin pointing areas
of strength or weakness is advantageous here,
it would be difficult to get through the entire
unit in one lesson.
Main
activity:
this will vary according to which of the Protests
you wish to study. Below is a brief resume
about each of the sections.
Chartists:
The unit provides a brief summary of what
the Chartists wanted and links to some more
detailed pages about different sections of
the movement. Students should read each of
these pages carefully. clicking on the activities
link a the bottom of the page will take students
to the activities menu. Selecting 'Chartism
Quiz' will take them to a revision quiz containing
10 multiple choice questions. Students answer
the questions and get brief feedback if they
get something wrong. They can only progress
to the next question once they have got the
answer right. The DHTML behind the quiz will
show them the percentage that they have scored
overall. This will be reduced if they have
got questions right at the second attempt
etc. This quiz should only take a few minutes
to complete, reading the background information
will take a little longer.
The
Luddites:
This unit provides background information
about the nature of the Luddite protest and
the response of the government. There are
links to information about key personalities
and legislation built into the text. students
should read all of the text prior to attempting
the Vocabulary test. To get to the activity
click on activities and select Luddite vocabulary
test. Students need to start the timer and
then fill in the missing gaps using both the
knowledge they have acquired from reading
the summary pages and the information in the
text. Students are not expected to complete
the whole activity in 3 minutes (I've only
seen one student manage to do it inside the
time limit). The timer is provided to give
an indication of how quickly they have managed
to read and work out some of the missing phrases.
Students can continue to complete the activity
after the time has run out. You will know
that they have done this as the timer will
show 0.00.
Swing
Riots:
Again the content is a brief summary of what
the protests were about. The quiz requires
students to spell the words correctly and
will provide clues and eventually the correct
answer if they are struggling. This activity
should only take about 5 minutes to fully
complete.
Other
protest movements: this section very briefly
summarises some of the other protests and
rebellions that occurred at the time. The
activity to support this unit is 'The protest
movements quiz'. This quiz covers all of the
protest movements mentioned in the unit. It
is probably the hardest of the activities
in this section. Again students need to spell
the answers correctly and a range of alternative
correct responses are available. this quiz
can be used to assess students knowledge of
the Protest Movements. A percentage score
is given after every answer.
Plenary:
This
will vary depending upon how much of the section
you have covered. recap the main points of
the protests and, where applicable, compare
the protests in this country with those in
France in the days leading up to the revolution.
It may be of use to go through the protest
movements quiz as a whole class to firm up
their knowledge of the protests.
Examples
of follow up activities that have been suggested
by users of this activity are:
Use
of the Spartacus Online Encyclopedia to research
the Chartists in more depth.
Source
based activities on the Luddites.
Comparisons
with the French Protests of the 1780's.
Analysis
of whether or not the protestors were successful.
If
you have any comments about your use of the
Protest Movements activities please e-mail
me to let me know how successful the activity
was. feedback will be of great use in the
planning of future activities of a similar
nature.
Link
to Protest Movements section
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