St. Joseph's Patrician College-History Class

I'm really looking forward to my history class today with the second years. Yesterday, I tried for the first time 'group work' in the class and it worked a treat. Not only did the students learn, but so did I. I assigned the students into groups of twos and threes to discuss the work of an archaeologist. In each group, one student was assigned to writing down the suggestions and another student presnted their answer to the class. I really enjoyed. Today, we are going to focus on one particular site that I worked on for six months. It is an Early Christian Burial Site. I will take the students through the stages of an archaeological dig, as interesting as I possibly can. I have all my archaeological tools; trowels, brush, picks, hand shovel, gloves and compass in a shoe-box ready for my class today. I also have cut-sheets and skeleton sheets that we recorded on in the Neale. I have photocopied them for each student. I am going to get the students to work in groups today, after the main goals of lesson is complished. Their group work will consist of them, discussing an archaeological site of their choice.

I corrected the students history homework last night on 'the history of their local area'. Some of them were brilliant. The students are brilliant.