![]() Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives’.Write as if you are the character telling your own life story. Reminder for children – Diaries are written in 1st person using ‘I’ not ‘He’ or ‘She’. I hope father is staying strong in the war, I do hope it is over soon! They have been very nice to me so far, I have heard a few of my schoolfriends have not been so lucky so I guess I can’t complain! I do miss mother and father terribly so already. I am feeling a little anxious today, today is my first day with my new family who I am staying with whilst the war is on. If your class has not previously learned the differences between fact and point of view, you could do a starter activity where children have to sort the information from the video above into facts and opinions.Įxample diary entry using the evacuee session: It is important that this task is based on factual information so that the children being a rich and reliable account of a child’s life during ww2, subjective information should only be used when describing how their character may be feeling and whilst empathising with the hardships of life during that time. ![]() ![]() Children should spend 10 minutes reflecting after every lesson, and should describe their feelings and emotions in depth whilst in role. The entries will range from writing about their evacuation and rationing experiences to what it felt like to have to take cover in an Anderson shelter or put on a gas mask for the first time. Children will write an entry into their diaries after each lesson within this topic, therefore gradually building a complete account of a child growing up in the war. To help children practice before they start writing into their ‘diaries’ watch the clip below and ask children to write a couple of sentences in their books or paper in role of one of the people featured, focusing on their feelings, emotions and what was happening.Īctivity: Over the duration of this entire topic children will be creating a diary to describe, explain and inform readers of what their experiences of being a child in the war were like. Starter task: To introduce this activity, children should brainstorm with the teacher what elements are used in writing a diary.
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