This lesson charts the changing experiences of black migrants living in England.
It gives students the chance to ‘meet’ various individuals who lived and worked as part of a community in the years 1500-1700.
They are introduced to the Tudor trumpeter John Blanke, silk-weaver Reasonable Blackman and ex-slaves Jonathan Strong and Ignatius Sancho.
Students go on to categorise information about black people’s experiences – before plotting this information on a scatter graph.
This enables them to make insightful inferences about how the experiences of black people living in England changed over time.
Finally, students respond to the enquiry question, using sophisticated ‘change’ language to analyse and account for the extent of change.
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