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School Resources: The Spanish Civil War

This is not on the history course in Ireland but it’s a brilliant topic for Transition Year or for Leaving Cert projects.

I uploaded this in Irish over the last week or two. Here is the whole lot in English.

First off, a presentation going over the main events and issues of the war.

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An exercise involving an element of role play. Instructions are on one of the slides in the presentation.

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An extract with questions from https://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/

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A questionnaire to give some structure to online or library research

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Finally, an extract from Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

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School Resources: Strongbow

Building on last month’s resources on the Middle Ages, here are linked notes and presentation: Strongbow: A Story from Ireland in the Middle Ages.

The history of Strongbow and the Norman conquest of Ireland is a great case study for Junior Cycle students to get to grips with life and politics in Medieval Europe. It’s also a crucial episode in Irish history.

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Bertold Brecht, ‘Questions from a worker who reads’

More school resources here for you today: material on the poem ‘Questions from a worker who reads’ by the great Bertold Brecht.

This is a poem I’ve never seen in a school textbook but which I’ve found brilliant and thought-provoking for a group of 14-15-year-olds. But really this would work with any age group.

Below is the text of the poem itself plus a presentation that should occupy the class for an hour or so.

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School Resources: ‘The Sun’ by Benjamin Zephaniah

This fantastic poem was a lot of fun to teach as it provoked debate and discussion in the classroom. There are plenty of clips online to help fill in some of the background on the issues that come up in the poem – from Northern Ireland to nuclear war.

Here is the text of the poem.

Here is another blog post I found useful.

And here are my resources: two presentations and a sheet of questions.

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Fascism in Italy (School Resources)

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A presentation covering the history of Fascism in Italy, from the First World War to the fall of Mussolini. Below are three files of notes to be used alongside the presentation, along with a short quiz.

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