Lesson Five – Trojan War

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and record information about a significant event that happened in Ancient Greece by using journalistic writing to present the sequence of events.

The class can compose example news reports to describe the main events in the Trojan war describing life during this time period in the Ancient Greek civilization.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and record information about a significant event that happened in Ancient Greece by using journalistic writing to present the sequence of events

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to investigate a significant event in the history of Ancient Greece and a template to structure and format a news report about the characters and sequence of events that occurred during the Trojan war.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record information about a significant event that happened in Ancient Greece by using journalistic writing,

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate the growth and development of Ancient Greece by researching daily life in different city states that formed the civilization in the past. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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