The Norman Conquest Rivals to the Throne Lesson

Please find attached the resources that I have created for a lesson on the Norman Conquest and the rivals to the throne.

I have attached:

• The PowerPoint presentation that I used, with background information to the Norman Conquest and information about the rivals.
• A card sorting activity whereby students read information on the cards about each rival, before categorising the cards into reasons why the rival should be king and reasons why they should not. The cards are attached as a PowerPoint presentation as I simply printed off the presentation as a ‘6 slides per page handout’. Attaching it as a presentation will allow you to decide how large or small you wish the cards to be.
• A fact file creator for each rival where students are encouraged to note key facts that they have learnt during the aforementioned card sorting activity (I have left the key facts that I included myself on the template as an example but these can be removed if you would prefer students to fill this out themselves). There are also spaces for students to fill in key facts such as ‘Nationality’, ‘Claim to the Throne’, ‘Military Strength’, etc. in a Top Trumps style.