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ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME
Subjects will be making much
more use of the website and internet for extension
work in 2013. We hope to expand our enrichment
programme significantly and showcase what is
happening in VG's classrooms over the course of the
year.
Below are a couple of topics
covered and extension work available in English and History at VG.
ENGLISH – GRADE
9
This is a Grade 9 English link
for background information to World War I (to
contextualise much of the war poetry covered in Term
1). Currently we have photos from World War I
and will provide links to websites in due course.
Below are some photos of the
Great War.
HISTORY – GRADE
10
This is a Grade 10 History link
for a slavery assignment and to websites that give
further information on this fascinating and
heartbreaking topic.
The result of
repeated whipping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
A general overview of the topic
with numerous links to slavery specific websites.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm
An excellent website with a
large number of first hand accounts of slavery
(primary sources) from slaves and abolitionists
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/slavery/
Experience the life of Olaudah Equiano through his own
words. Also
witness a slave auction and consider how you might
have reacted.
A slave auction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section9.shtml
An excellent website that tracks
the course of slavery, considering the economic,
religious, cultural and political reasons behind the
Atlantic Slave Trade.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/
This site explores the role of
slavery in the development of the USA. It has a
poignant section on
memories of being a slave.
http://www.ia.ednet.ns.ca/lrichard/SlaveryWebQuest-Introduction.htm
This is a webquest designed for
learners in grade 8-10. We will look at creating
something similar for our girls over the course of the
third term, or look to have them create their own
webquest on third term topics (South African History
to 1800 and the Industrial Revolution). The
Grade 10 History class is urged to look through this
particular quest.
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