House and Homes

House and Homes

What is your favourite part of your house?

Activate students' prior knowledge. Have them fill in words that come to mind when they think of the Secret Annex.

Discuss the answers and have students find connections between them. Drag these together. Which themes fit with them? Write these above if necessary. 

You may have thought of your cosy bed, hot shower, big TV or a stocked up fridge. But, homes weren't always like this. 

Students are shown a section of a picture with each slide.

For each section, they ask themselves what they see, what they think and what questions they have. At the end, they will see the entire picture.

Drag and drop the images to the matching text.

From 1 September 1941, Jewish pupils could only be taught by Jewish teachers in separate Jewish schools.

Roman Era- 43 B.C

Celtic 500 B.C

On 6 July 1942, the Frank family went into hiding.

Ask students to connect the pictures and description. They can enlarge the pictures by clicking on them. Afterwards, discuss together the moments that led to Anne Frank going into hiding.

Tip: Start together with the letter Margot received and show this picture enlarged. This way you link the answer to the previous question to the assignment on this (and the next) slide.

Celtic Houses

They were round in shape with conical roofs. The walls were made of daub (straw, mud and tail) and the roof of straw. They had no windows and families all lived in the same room and sometimes their animals too.

Community

Most Celts lived in scattered farming communities surrounded by a bank with wooden fencing and a ditch to keep out intruders and wild animals.

Celtic Houses

What do you think this is?

How long do you think the roman era was?

1. 1200 years
2. 800 years
3. 600 years
4. 350 years

The Romans

Unlike the Celtic times, where people lived in the same type of housing, the Romans had very different houses for the rich and poor.

Insulae: Apartment buildings where most people lived. They were often crowded, noisy and unsafe

Domus: Large and luxurious houses where the rich and influential lived. They had many rooms, an atrium, a dining room and sometimes a garden

True or False?

The romans perfected the Aqueducts which allowed for

public toilets, underground sewage systems, fountains and ornate public baths to be used by the romans.

True

False

Right answer: True

Additional information: Explanations can be found on the next slide.

Houses were in some ways similar to those of today. They had two stories, although the second story rarely survives. They contained bedrooms, a dining room, a kitchen

There were spaces specific to Roman houses such as the atrium ,a shaded walkway surrounding a central impluvium or pool, which served as the location for the owner's meeting with his clients in the morning; the tablinum was a main reception room emerging from the atrium, where the owner often sat to receive his clients; and finally, the peristyle was an open-air courtyard of varying size, laid out as a garden normally in the West, but paved with marble in the East