In the first five years of teaching more than 50% of teachers leave the teaching profession. I came dangerously close to becoming a part of this statistic after numerous burn outs throughout my first four years. I want to do something to change this and so every Monday I will be a mentor by sharing my teaching resources and classroom tips.
Creating resources is where I get to put to use my creativity and my writing background and I want them to have a larger audience. Feel free to share, use and adapt my resources.
Integrated Studies Unit-Ancient China and Ancient Egypt
After each unit students complete a unit summary and I provide them with sentence starters.
When completing the comparative essay students use a Venn Diagram to decide on their topics, a graphic organiser to collate their research, and a planning essay including sentence starters.
I am also including a source analysis sentence starters scaffold.
Resources:
- Ancient Egypt and China unit summaries
- Venn Diagram graphic organiser comparing Ancient China and Egypt
- Graphic organiser to collate research
- Comparative essay planning sheet with sentence starters
Unit Summaries Sentence Starters

ancient_egypt_unit_summary.docx |

ancient_china_unit_summary.docx |

ancient_china_unit_summary-completed.docx |
Comparative Essay Resources

at3_venn_diagram_comparing_key_features_of_ancient_socities_1.pdf |

research_graphic_organiser.docx |

ancient_china_egypt_comparative_writing_plan.docx |