{"id":2822,"date":"2013-10-01T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2013-09-16T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:37:13","slug":"year-7-history-skills-the-body-on-the-balcony-episode-2-the-mystery-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/year-7-history-skills-the-body-on-the-balcony-episode-2-the-mystery-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 7 History Skills: The Body on the Balcony EPISODE 2, the Mystery Deepens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/yr7\/skills\/2a_What-Body_mystery.docx\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/assas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2823\" alt=\"assas\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/assas-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Body on the Balcony EPISODE 2 &#8211; the Mystery Deepens!\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nWith their curiosity inevitably piqued, students are now presented firstly with a photograph of the scene (remember, this is a genuine historical event). They are encouraged to distinguish what they now know for a\u00a0<strong>fact<\/strong>, what they can\u00a0<strong>deduce<\/strong>, and what they\u00a0<strong>speculate<\/strong>. They then move on to<strong>examine<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>compare<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>contrast<\/strong>\u00a0two written sources. Finally, the teacher reveals the name of the person whose body was found on the balcony, plays an extract from one of his speeches, and encourages students to find out answers to some of the key questions raised by the sources (why was he killed? why was the murderer never put on trial? why were the witnesses never interviewed by police&#8230;?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Body on the Balcony EPISODE 2 &#8211; the Mystery Deepens!\u00a0 With their curiosity inevitably piqued, students are now presented firstly with a photograph of the scene (remember, this is a genuine historical event). They are encouraged to distinguish what they now know for a\u00a0fact, what they can\u00a0deduce, and what they\u00a0speculate. They then move on&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/year-7-history-skills-the-body-on-the-balcony-episode-2-the-mystery-deepens\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[10,14,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Jw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}