Learn about the Anglo-Saxon period of history with this resource pack! It includes a child-friendly ebook (with a glossary of related words), a range of activity resources to explore and eye-catching display materials to decorate your learning environment.
Recipes offer a tangible glimpse of the past and bring history books alive, inspiring the imagination to go beyond the dry details of facts and lists of dates. Eating is both a necessity and a cult…
Learn about the Anglo-Saxon period of history with this resource pack! It includes a child-friendly ebook (with a glossary of related words), a range of activity resources to explore and eye-catching display materials to decorate your learning environment.
Our major Magna Carta exhibition is now open in London, but for those of you who can't come to the British Library in person, over the coming months we're going to showcase some of the exhibits on this blog. You may imagine that our story starts in the years immediately...
Our ancestors, the Anglo-Saxons lived in the Forest of Dean and spoke Old English. They gave us the names for our days of the week. Most of them were named after Anglo-Saxon gods, except Saturday w…
Who were the Anglo-Saxons and where did they come from. Why did the Anglo-Saxons invade Britain? Discover their origins and history here.
Anglo-Saxon themed worksheet. Fill in the missing vowels. Teacher answer sheet also provided for this teaching worksheet.
Support exploration of 'Beowulf' with StoryboardThat's lesson plans, summaries, and vocabulary. Activities on plot and Scandinavian themes for students.
In 946, the body of a woman was buried in a monastery and later relocated to Magdeburg Cathedral. It was essentially forgotten until 2008 when
This period is traditionally known as the Dark Ages, mainly because written sources for the early years of Saxon invasion are scarce. It is a time of war, of the breaking up of Roman Britannia into several separate kingdoms, of religious conversion and, after the 790s, of continual battles against a new set of invaders: the Vikings.
What made Alfred, the most famous and celebrated of all Anglo-Saxon kings, so great?
Who were the Anglo-Saxons and where did they come from. Why did the Anglo-Saxons invade Britain? Discover their origins and history here.
Our months of the year are based on the lunar cycle. The word ‘month’ in English or ‘mōnath’ in Old English is related to our word for moon. Here the Old English is separate…
Anglo-Saxons, according to the historians, are Germanic tribes, who invaded and settled in the south and east of Britain...
What happened when the Anglo-Saxons arrived in Britain? Meet the Anglo-Saxons, Picts, Romans and Britons in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 primary history guide.
What happened when the Anglo-Saxons arrived in Britain? Learn about the Anglo-Saxons, Picts, Romans and the Britons in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 primary history guide.
The Battle of Penn Hill was fought in AD 665 between a British and an Anglo-Saxon coalition at Penn Hill in northern Dumnonia, the precise location of which is unknown. It resulted in a decisive British victory, and reversed the Saxon expansion westwards across Albion. Germanic migrants, mainly from the Angle, Saxon and Jutish tribes, began arriving on the east coast of Albion in the mid-5th century, during the chaos following the Roman withdrawal from the provinces of Britannia. They quickly pe
This is a printable map of Anglo Saxon kingdoms in Britain in about the year 700AD. Use it for homeschool history.
Each year we interview a Wolfson prize judge about the shortlist, a great way to find the best new history books being published each yaer.
From early English history, origins and language, a politically-oriented piece on the people, origins, language and what the kingdom has become that began with a few warbands from over the North Sea
English is always evolving, which is good but some words are too good to let die. Here are 8 Anglo Saxon words that I think we should bring back into use.
This is my retelling of that story of the English, in a regular, chronological podcast, from the cataclysmic end of Roman Britain, all the way through to the present day. I’m a bloke in a shed, so this is not a dry retelling of events; I make sure this is good, properly prepared history, but I fill it with my love and enthusiasm for history, and some of the things that make me laugh.
Anglo-Saxon England was an era marked by vicious bloodshed, religious fervour, and warring kingdoms. Yet it also saw the development of great art,...
Learn about and revise what Anglo-Saxon society was like before 1066 with this BBC Bitesize GCSE History (OCR B) study guide.
Anglo Saxon Poetry: Background, Terms, Handouts, Activities, and Video Clip Start your school year with this unit and do it right! You will not see a video/ song comparison to The Seafarer anywhere else! There are 33 pages of British Literature's Anglo Saxon Poetry materials. Table of Contents Class Notes (smart board and handouts) Anglo Saxon Worksheets Literary Terms Fill in & Teacher Copy Heroes vs. Monsters Fill in Chart The Seafarer (text) The Wife’s Lament (text) The Wanderer (text) Triple Venn Diagram Fill in Your Turn to be the Scop (co-op bell ringer) The Seafarer Worksheet Fill in The Seafarer Today Billy Joel's The Downeaster “Alexa” lyrics (smart board or projector &handout) Characterization Chart fill in Venn Diagram fill in **NO ANSWER KEY** Visit my store for more British Literature. Come Together! Connect with Me! Study All Knight Blog Study All Knight Facebook Danielle Knight (Study All Knight) on Pinterest Study All Knight on Twitter Study All Knight on Instagram Created by Danielle Knight, © Study All Knight ™, The Knight Stuff, LLC keywords: British Literature, England, Exeter Book, poetry, epic, Scandinavian, Celt, Vikings, Beowulf, Fate, Billy Joel, fisherman, graphic organizer, back to school, high school English, September
Scientists have discovered the remains of a medieval queen inside mortuary chests that have been kept at Winchester Cathedral.
