assassinate: to murder, to kill a political leader or other public figure
assassination: murder, killing of a political leader or other public figure by a sudden violent attack
assassin: the killer of a political leader or public figure
Research task
You are working in a group of 3, your names are on the envelope you will receive in class. You have been given information about a person who has been assassinated.
You need to share out the information and READ it.
You have to find out:
1) What is this person famous for?
2) Do you know why this person was killed?
3) When and where was this person assassinated?
4) A bit more background information you can tell us about this person that will help us to know more about this person’s life.
• Rules: You must use the information given today and you may find out additional information using a book. You need to complete this task as a homework so you may use other internet sources at home and watch anything on YouTube to help you understand more about this person.
You MUST write any additional sources down (the title of the book, the Dewey number and the internet website’s correct address or URL.)
You must present your facts in an interesting and entertaining manner to the rest of the class on Monday 8/7/13 – this will be your last formal oral assessment of the year.
You must also hand in your notes as proof that you did the research and give information about your sources (where you got the information.) You will have today’s lesson to work on this and any additional information to find as homework.
You need to work as a group and share out how you are going to present the information to the rest of the class. You can simply tell us, you can use PowerPoint (but don’t come and read the slides to us!) The aim is for you to give us information about the person you have researched that is a summary and just the important information – DON’T copy long pieces of work; put it in your OWN words if you can. A Year 7 student should be able to follow your presentation so don’t copy words you don’t understand!! You need to show you can SELECT information and SUMMARISE information in mostly your own words. You may find references to political organisations or other information that is unknown to you – you need to explain what such references are to your audience or leave it out!
Don’t present anything you don’t understand yourself. You may take the information you are given today home; you can share it out between you and you may underline or annotate it in any way to help you find out what you need to know.
If you lose this sheet you can go to edutronic.net and find Ms Lindsay’s classes, Year 8 and this information will be available there.
Websites you may find useful:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures
Happy research! If you want to find other public figures who have been assassinated, try looking up President Allende, Anwar Sadat, Thomas Sankara or any others you have heard about – feel free to add somebody else to your presentation for Monday 8th July!
Thank you.
React!