Lesson Four – Eyewitness Recounts

This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and record eyewitness recounts about the causes and consequences of the Great Fire in London during the seventeenth century,

The class can read recounts to suggest what a baker, a Thames boatman, a fire fighting soldier and Samuel Pepys might have said about what happened.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore and record eyewitness recounts about the causes and consequences of the Great Fire in London during the seventeenth century

Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to explore recounts by different eyewitnesses to the start and spread of the Great Fire in London in the 17th century and a template to select and record viewpoints about what happened during this period in history.

The interactive presentation gets the children to identify and describe what different eyewitnesses might have said about the start and spread of the Great Fire in London including a diary written by Samuel Pepys.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to investigate, describe and record information about some of the historical events surrounding the Great Fire of London that occurred in the seventieth century. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.

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