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Students examine the influences of Norman language and culture in England following the Norman Conquest with a focus on chivalry, cathedral building, religion, language and entertainment.

UPDATED CONTENT & SPEC. FOR 2025/6

The 25 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Learning aims and progress tracker
• Slide 3: ‘As You Enter’ Activity - How might someone with wealth and status today show this off to the rest of society?
• Slide 4: Recap - Students use a picture based activity to recap the purpose of the Domesday Book
• Slide 5-6: Starter - Who were the aristocracy?
• Slide 7: Background information about the influence of Norman culture.
• Slide 8: Task 1 - Printable worksheet covering all aspects of Norman language and culture.
• Slide 9: Task 2 - Four options for further tasks
• Slide 10: Challenge questions
• Slide 11-12: Learning Review 1 - Key term match up with answers
• Slide 13-21: Learning Review 2 - Give me a fact about…(various aspects of Norman language and culture)
• Slide 22-23: EXAM FOCUS - Examples of the ‘One feature’ exam question with printable answer sheet.
• Slide 24: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 25: More from RA Resources

This lesson has been updated in line with the amended specification and exam questions ready for the 2025/6 examinations (GCSE History Edexcel).

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