Today we looked at the roles of women in WW2, a lesson we really enjoyed 🙂 First of all we started to think about the expectation of women before WW2. We realised that women were seen as ‘housewives’ and looked after the family. We explored a variety of pictures which showed this. The activate part of our lesson was watching a video clip, which we all enjoyed. There were a few shoulders bopping up and down as we watched! We thought about notices and wonders the first time we watched then the second time, we used our whiteboards to record some of the jobs women had before the war then during the war. We shared our ideas in mini crews and built a whole class anchor chart. We then took part in a collaborative task, a mini reading comprehension based on the clip! There was even some grammar in there on the subject! We then moved onto watching another two clips, again thinking about the roles of women but then thinking about how the war actually changed women’s lives. We demonstrated our learning through a venn diagram task, working in mini crews to sort the jobs of women before and during the war. Our exit ticket will come in tomorrows lesson where we will complete a piece of writing to explain how the experiences of women changed because of WW2. This will also help us to answer our guiding question.
