| English & Irish history for primary schools The study unit is intended as a depth study within the Key Stage 2 History curriculum when studying the Vikings, addressing the key question: If you were a Viking, whose story would you choose to tell: Alfred the Great’s or Brian Boru’s? Click here for the study unit
Other resources: http://iisresource.org/Documents/Brian_Alfred_Vikings.htm
Lessons
1. What makes a good story?
2. What impression do you get of Alfred & Brian?
3. How well did Alfred & Brian deal with the Vikings?
4. How important were the battles of Edington & Clontarf?
5. Eric Bloodaxe asks, whose story would make the better saga - Alfred's or Brian's?
Activities
A series of activities compares how Alfred the Great and Brian Boru dealt with the Vikings who invaded England and Ireland.
Using a Viking saga as initial stimulus material, the unit
- encourages children to explore the past by looking at historical figures in context
- leads children to consider what makes a fit and proper subject for a saga
- provides an opportunity for them to present their work in a variety of formats, including an assembly and
- offers scope for work in Literacy, such as examining kennings and constructing sagas and other narratives.
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