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Teaching and learning with Amarantus

Amarantus and his Neighbourhood comprises six key topics divided into three sessions of equal length with an overaching Enquiry and final outcome task and can be taught as a single, significant component in a KS3 curriculum. Each individual Topic has its own self-contained enquiry question, outcome task and aims and objectives however, meaning they can also be taught as smaller discrete units if preferred. Every session is fully resourced with detailed lesson plans including key subject knowledge to support non specialist teachers. Click on the arrows to view the material.

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Enquiry question

What sort of people might have lived in Amarantus’s neighbourhood?
1.1

Introduces the scheme as a whole and sets up the final outcome of the enquiry. Students are also introduced to the location and archaeology of the House and Bar of Amarantus to make initial claims about the people who may have lived there.
Lesson plan.pdf
1.2
1.3
1.1
Lesson PowerPoint (download)
Worksheet: What claims can we make?.pdf
1.2
1.3

Enquiry question

Setting the scene; how would you characterise everyday life for the different members of society in Pompeii?

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.1
2.2
2.3

Enquiry question

How were religion and belief present in the daily lives of ancient Pompeians? What did this involve in practice?

3.3
3.2
3.1
3.3
3.2
3.1

Enquiry question

Pompeii was part of the Roman Empire. Did this stop local politics being important in everyday life? Where did power lie in Pompeii?

4.1
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4.3
4.1
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4.3

Enquiry question

How did the nature of trade and commerce in Pompeii influence the everyday experience of living there?

5.1
5.2
5.3
5.1
5.2
5.3

Enquiry question

What might meals have been like for different members of Pompeian society?

6.1
6.2
6.3
6.1
6.2
6.3

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