Are you a girl? Do you know one?
Then this list is for you – great books about amazing women and girls – you never know you could appear in one, one day.
Got any other great suggestions for me to add in? Just drop me a line.
bairdd@st-ninians.e-renfrew.sch.uk
Reading around a topic can be a really useful aid to remembering key events – personalising what you have been studying.
If you are studing History at National 5 level or just like some of the subjects covered – this powerpoint might be of use to you.
Please note that some of the titles include mature content reflecting the subject matter and time periods studied.
Let me know how you get on and if there are any other books you think should be added.
Take care,
Mrs Baird
I do l
ove a bit of historical fiction but there is so much out there it is hard to know were to begin.
I have put together a powerpoint that you should find useful.
If there are any titles that you would like to see added to the power point or added to the library let me know.
Remember the check the catalogue first to see what we have already.
Take care,
Mrs Baird
If you are studying World War 2 or even if you are simply interested in the time period. Why not have a look at this power point? There are lots of resources out there and it can often be hard to find good ones. I have included some of the best available from the library.
Do you have a favourite book, graphic novel or even moie that you think should be included? Let me know and I will add it in.
Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres, often dealing with very difficult issues, it can get you into the mindset of another place and time and develop empathy and understanding.
Take care,
Mrs Baird
Book review – BORING!
Power Point- YAWN!
Why not take a look at Fakebook where you create a false Facebook account for your subject.
Just as with the real Facebook you will have to know about your character – age, interests, friends, pictures and movies etc
The more research you do in the beginning the better your fake will be!
Click on the link to take you to Fakebook
If you need information on how to create your account click here.
Ideally you should open both pages and work between them.
So, be creative and be smart and Fake it!
To visit places that we only read about in books or head about in films was both humbling and inspiring and must never be forgotten.
Have you forgotten yet?…
For the world’s events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you’re a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same-and War’s a bloody game…
Have you forgotten yet?…
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you’ll never forget.
Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz–
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench-
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, ‘Is it all going to happen again?’
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack–
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads—those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?
Have you forgotten yet?…
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you’ll never forget.
