The Viking sagas

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Vikings Mythology, Art and Culture

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Objectives

History

Understand how knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.
Ask historically valid questions.
Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts in relation to Viking culture and everyday life.
Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

English

Draft and write by composing and rehearsing sentences orally, progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures in the form of a Viking Saga.
Read and perform their writing to a specific audience.

Computing

Select a use a range of digital devices.

Lesson Planning

Listen to Viking sagas and then plan, write, perform and record your own.

Teaching Outcomes:

To investigate Viking sagas and how these were an important part of Viking culture.
To plan, compose and perform sagas based on the Viking saga.

Children can:

Gain an understanding of the culture of Viking life through the retelling of Viking sagas.
Perform and write a Viking saga.

Planning

Provided Resources

Storyboard template
Viking saga script

You Will Need

DK Eyewitness book – Viking p50-52 Games, Music and Stories
100 Viking Facts book p38-39 Heroes, Legends and Sagas
Printed example of one of the sagas
Printed off versions of other sagas from the BBC weblink
Recording equipment either on video/camera or on a tablet

Weblinks

Viking Sagas: Odin creates the world from bbc.co.uk
Viking Sagas: Stories of the Viking sagas from bbc.co.uk
How teachers can use the sagas - YouTube clip