Formative BCD Information

You live in Spain during the 19 ^th century; you are excited/frightened/nervous about events//ideas which are happening around you and you talk to a friend telling him/her about these changes.

 Read the following situations/events below. Choose one of the topics and you will investigate this during your free time as homework. You will then give a presentation in class describing this historic event based on what you have investigated from various sources (library books, encyclopedia, internet etc.). Investigate interesting and relevant facts about events, people, dates related to this topic etc. You can include pictures, maps etc. to support your information. It will be a digital presentation in class.

This is a group(x 4) formative task

Criterion:  B Investigation        C: Communication         D: Critical Thinking

Each group will choose one of the following situations: investigate this subject and explain what life is like for you living in this moment of time:

1. You are a little boy/girl who lives in Cadiz and who likes to gossip about “La Pepa” Constitution (1812). What has happened?

2. You are a little boy/girl living in Spain during the War of Independence/the Peninsular War, Spain (1808-1814). What has happened?

3. You are a little boy/girl living in Madrid and it is May 2^nd / 3^rd 1808 .What has happened?

4. You are a little boy/girl who lives in Spain in 1898 and people are talking about the 1898 disaster. What has happened?

5. You are a little boy/girl who lives in Spain in 1789, and people are talking about the French Revolution in Paris, France. What has happened?

Read these example questions below to help guide your investigation.

Person 1. What are the general facts about this event? Where /when/why did this event happen/begin?

Person 2/3. Investigate a specific fact: a person/event: eg: Napoleon /Jose Bonaparte/Goya/Generación 1898 /commoners/Revolutionaries etc .

Person 4. How do people feel about the future? What are the consequences of this event? Frightened /hopeful/ disappointed/ angry?? Explain why.

Instructions

—  Create a presentation (digital )

—  Task to be completed in class: 24^th -28^th April 2017

—  GROUP x 4.

—  2 slides per person = 15 key words per slide, plus pictures, maps and that will help with your explanations.

—  Your teacher will be assessing criteria: B C D.

—  Remember to check your spelling and grammar carefully.

—  Keep numbers approximate (e.g. about 3,000 kilos, not 3,148 kilos)

—  Keep your English simple but correct! Use titles, sub-titles, underline key words to organize your work.

—   Do not copy huge chunks from Internet, E.g. copy and paste. This is PLAGIARISM, the internet is to guide and help you, but you have to do the work in your own words.

—  Include a bibliography/your sources.