D Donnelly

2019 Teach First North-East participant. Teaching History
Newcastle University graduate- BA and MA

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@JackBiggs1992 Thank you!! OCR American West

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Last ever series of lessons I have created. Ending on a high as I think this is the best booklet for a series of lessons I've ever made!

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The nicest card I have ever received came from a y11 today!

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Making my last ever series of lessons and got to say I am enjoying making American West resources.

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As it's the #Midterms2022 I have decided to link the US election to the Weimar Constitution with y11. Hopefully, I can retrieve some knowledge and we can discuss how the US system is very different #edutwitter

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For debate club, I've set it up in a court format: team prosecution and team defence. The first week back we're debating if a PM should still be PM even if they break the law. Already feel sorry for team defence!

Another brilliant idea from @mrfitzhist that I have adapted!

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Currently teaching the arms race (pre-WW1) to y10 and I made a starter about the Anglo-German rivalry. Essentially, each bomb represents a reason why conflict existed between each country and pupils have to explain why that reason led to conflict. Excited to try next week.

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Stole @mrfitzhist ingenious idea of contributing contexts and used it for a y7 lesson on how treatments to the Black Death have improved. Worked very well!

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Inspired by the brilliant @SPBeale, I made a task that gets students to understand the impact of the great depression in America and beyond. Hopefully, should prepare the y9s nicely for y10 and beyond.

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"Can we please write our names on the front of our books..."
"What color- blue or black?????"

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A lot of people are loving this visual that shows the impact of "timing the name" when Cold Calling. I agree that it's great and just want to make sure it's clear that the credit goes to @geotayler. I loved it too & my role was merely to riff on it (a little) in a blog post!

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@H_Duffy_ You'll be brilliant! Good luck :)

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Just completed a knowledge organiser for AQA Germany 1890-1945. Managed to condense the 90 page textbook into 6 pages so it should prove to be a good revision aid for students.

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Adapted from the brilliant @mrfitzhist, I made my y10 students improve a 16m response from Health and the People AQA. Worked really well to enable pupils to think about what specific evidence is and how they could develop their explanations.

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Got my students to map America for our first lesson on racism. Really glad I did as it properly got them to understand north/south.

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Used @mrfitzhist brilliant knowledge tree today to challenge my class about the positives/ negatives of the Industrial Revolution. I then got them to think how the Industrial Revolution had allowed certain factors to change over time.

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Identity politics, not class politics seems to be the big shift at the moment. Fascinating result.

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Hartlepool has a Conservative MP for the first time since the constituency's creation, after Jill Mortimer wins by-election https://t.co/AYyYKa7GfY

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@mrwmhistory @MrThorntonTeach Hi Dan this is amazing just come across it looking for ideas to plan a unit on America. Was wondering, if you did not mind, would it be possible to have a copy of this? Would be insanely grateful! Thanks

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Made a little knowledge organiser for y10. Trying to condense a whole course into 6 pages to try and get students to understand what the key, non-negotiable content is. Hopefully, it'll help with retrieval too as I want to constantly refer to back to it.

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Rave reviews from y8 consisted of 'it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...'