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| Key Questions | Learning Objectives | Resources | Interaction Activities | Links |
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| What was the Spanish Civil War?
How did South Wales miners become involved?
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Knowledge/understanding:
(1) Causes of the war; |
Narrative text - sufficient to provide necessary information but concise enough not to ‘get in the
way’
Supported by photographs and map showing main campaigns. |
None – pupils simply read the information.
However, it would be useful to have hyperlinks to a glossary, so that (1) the text can be shortened, and (2) they can manage how much information they want to use. |
Mine of Information and/or other useful websites dealing with e.g. the Spanish Civil War. |
| What were conditions like for soldiers in the International Brigade?
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Empathy:
(1) Leaving family/friends; |
Letters - ‘personal’ matters;
Taped reminiscences; Newspaper articles; |
Purpose is to enable the pupils, using the sources and their contextual knowledge, to reconstruct the experience of the volunteers – in order to explain their attitudes and feelings. | Mine of Information and/or other useful websites dealing with e.g. the Spanish Civil War. |
| What was the fighting like?
One man’s war: Will Lloyd of Aberdare How did Welsh communities support the war effort? |
Using evidence:
(1) Interpretation of sources; |
Letters – military matters
Focus on those of Will Lloyd; Articles from Aberdare Leader; Taped reminiscences; Official government sources; Photographs; More detailed map of Jamara campaign; |
Purpose is to enable pupils to interpret and evaluate sources in order to produce an account or answer a question. Plenty of ‘meat’ here. Aberdare leader is hopelessly biased; sections of letters are clearly censored; limited use of individual recounts etc.Q: How useful are these sources for telling us what it was like to fight in the Spanish Civil War? | Mine of Information and/or other useful websites dealing with e.g. the Spanish Civil War. |
| What was achieved?
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Interpretations:
Pupils use sources to test interpretations of the contribution of the International Brigades. |
Historians’ viewsPrimary sources used elsewhere in the unit. | Pupils are given two competing interpretations of effectiveness of International brigades. Using copy/paste, the ‘attach’ primary sources to one or other interpretation and draw a conclusion | Mine of Information and/or other useful websites dealing with e.g. the Spanish Civil War. |
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