- to find out about Queen Victoria?s achievements
- to gather information for a newspaper article about Queen Victoria
1.
Read the following article about Queen Victoria:
2.
Let’s record some words on our vocabulary sheet:
Copy the following words as well as their meanings onto your vocabulary sheet:
- prosperity — “wealth”
- empire — “a country with all its land”
- monarchy — “kingdom”
3.
After Victoria died, the newspapers reported how the British empire mourned the loss of a great monarch and paid tribute to her character and achievements.
This quotation is from a real newspaper article published in the London Times in 1901.
4.
The Imagine you had to write a news paper report on Queen Victoria’s death. It will be good to include information about her early life, her achievements, and her later life.
Here is what one could include:
Queen Victoria died at the age of 81 on 22 January 1901 at 6.30 pm. She passed away at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, surrounded by her children and grandchildren.
5.
Divide into three groups. Each group read a paragraph from the text / article on Queen Victoria.
Then, choose one person to share the information (from your paragraph) to the rest of the class.
6.
Finally, copy the information on Queen Victoria onto your News Sheet.
(Also stick a picture of Queen Victoria in the box provided.)
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This lesson has been based on material that may be obtained from: https://www.ks2history.com/
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