Famous People from History

Teacher Support Pack

Famous People from History

Written by Ray Shaw and Donna Burton Wilcock

Ray Shaw taught at Banbury School in Oxfordshire for 25 years before joining Immersive Education as Content Development Manager in September 2003. Donna taught English for 12 years and has worked as the Senior Editor and writer for an open learning company. She managed education programmes in the Northern European Region for Intel and is now Director of Education at Immersive Education. Page design by Garth Stewart (28.09.06) ISBN 1-84393-157-2

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Production Credits

Famous People from History

The Kar2ouche Production Team

Michelle Armstrong Sarah Barnett Rebecca Burton Donna Burton-Wilcock Vicky Carroll Fraser Chainey

John Griffiths Ashley Helm Sarah Hickman Andy Hudson Max Hymas James May

Mandy Miles Tim Price Walker Becky Radcliffe Stephanie Rogers Mary Ryan Sally Sayers

Ray Shaw Jamie Sheldon Emily Sparling Garth Stewart Philippa Tomlinson

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the help of Cathryn Wilkes (Primary School Teacher and Head of Key Stage 1) for her ideas and support.

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Contents

Introduction

5

This Pack

7

Structure

9

What is Kar2ouche?

11

Making Your Own Activities Using Kar2ouche

13

If You Haven't Used Kar2ouche Before ? A Starter

16

Useful Hints

19

Activities

21

Activity 1 What Does Famous Mean?

Teacher Notes

23

Student Notes

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Sheet 1.1 My Famous Person

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Activity 2 Florence Nightingale

Teacher Notes

31

Student Notes

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Sheet 2.1 Florence Nightingale's Life

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Sheet 2.2 Florence Nightingale's Life Cloze

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Activity 3 Shakespeare

Teacher Notes

41

Student Notes

48

Sheet 3.1 Notes on Shakespeare's Life

50

Sheet 3.2 Questioning Shakespeare

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Activity 4 Famous People from History

Teacher Notes

53

Student Notes

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Sheet 4.1 My Life

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Sheet 4.2 My Famous Person's Life

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Activity 5 Anne Frank's Diaries

Teacher Notes

63

Student Notes

68

Sheet 5.1 My Diary

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Appendices

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Appendix 1 Text and Audio Files

73

Appendix 2 Famous People Included in the Kar2ouche Characters Palette 83

Appendix 3 Useful Contacts and Websites

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Appendix 4 Glossary of Key Words

89

Appendix 5 Kar2ouche and Special Needs

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