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Game of Thrones: a historical reading

05 mardi Mar 2019

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Lesson 1: Why study Game of Thrones in the history class?

  • The document: Suzannah LIPSCOMB, « Game of Thrones: Does Fantasy Fiction Beat Period Drama? », in History Today, 2014.
  • The exercise: Associate the GOT stories with the historical events

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Lesson 2: Are the Seven Kingdoms a metaphor of medieval England?

Activités préparatoires

  1. How to understand the geography of Game of Thrones
  2. What is the story of the Seven Kingdoms?
  3. Why has G.R.R. Martin invented the story of the Seven Kingdoms?

Lesson 3: The history « Beyond the Wall »

  1. The Wall in the show
  2. The Wall in history

Activity: work in a team to write the dialogues of this scene with The Night’s Watch in Castle Black.

Lesson 4: The Starks and the Lannisters: a new war of roses?

Activités préparatoires

Activity: Summarize the history of the War of the Roses using the Historic Tale Construction Kit.

Lesson 5: Who’s who?

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Could you guess who as inspired G.R.R. MARTIN to create Game of Thrones characters?

Medieval England in Literature and Cinema

03 jeudi Mar 2016

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Introduction

Lesson 1: Are the seven Kingdoms a metaphor of the medieval England?

  1. Choose one comparaison between GOT story and English history
  2. Prepare an oral session (about 5 min) about this comparaison => Don’t forget that you can just have memos with you.
  3. Prepare a short presentation with images
  4. students will present their work

Subjects

  • Is « The Wall » a metaphor of the Hadrian’s Wall ?
      • Present the Wall
      • Present the Hardian’s Wall
      • Find at least 3 arguments that justify the comparison
  • Are the Seven Kingdoms a metaphor of England ?
      • Present the Seven Kingdoms
      • Present the geography of England
      • Find at least 3 arguments that justify the comparison
  • Is the conflict between the Stark and the Lannister a metaphor of the War of Roses?
      • Present the Stark and Lannister
      • Present the York and the Lancaster
      • Find at least 3 arguments that justify the comparison
  • Is Robb Stark inspired by King Eward IV ?
      • Present Robb Stark
      • Present King Edward IV
      • Find at least 3 arguments that justify the comparison

Scale

Timing (5 minutes) 2
Quality of the contents (organisation and information) 3
Oral and language (you don’t read your notes and your English is good) 3
Quality of the presentation (with Prezi or another tool) 2

Activity 2

  • Padlet for your activity about Christ Church

Lesson 2: How did England become protestant?

  • Tool: MindMeister
    • Work in teams of 6/7 students
    • Achille, Chloé, Lauryne, Mélys, Léa, Alexis, Pauline.
    • Arthur, Edgar, Lemuel, Noé, Maxime, Anthony, Shadi
    • Léa M, Agathe, Charly, Lara, Elsa, Margot, Venezia

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