{"id":287,"date":"2006-12-07T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/witchcraft-1-introduction-religion-superstition-and-witchcraft\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T16:23:15","slug":"witchcraft-1-introduction-religion-superstition-and-witchcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/witchcraft-1-introduction-religion-superstition-and-witchcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Witchcraft: 1. Introduction: Religion, Superstition and Witchcraft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students start with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/yr8\/witches\/1_Introduction.pdf\">Task 1<\/a>, followed by a classroom discussion, just to get them thinking. Then, they place their worksheet face down on the table and I write this question on the board:  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When was the last witch executed?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Students turn their sheets back over, and a merit is awarded for the person who first shouts out the correct answer. Then, repeat with a second question: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who wrote the 1590 book on witchcraft?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Then, we read through the account together before proceeding to the main activity (a piece of display work).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students start with Task 1, followed by a classroom discussion, just to get them thinking. Then, they place their worksheet face down on the table and I write this question on the board: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When was the last witch executed?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Students turn their sheets back over, and a merit is awarded for the person who first&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/witchcraft-1-introduction-religion-superstition-and-witchcraft\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-4D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}