{"id":288,"date":"2006-12-10T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T16:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/a-classroom-witch-trial\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T16:25:15","slug":"a-classroom-witch-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/a-classroom-witch-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"A Classroom Witch Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/yr8\/witches\/2_Witch_Trial.pdf\">Witch Trial<\/a> and accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/yr8\/witches\/3_Witchcraft_Evidence_Sheet.pdf\">record sheet<\/a> is always one of the highlights of the Year 8 course! With some students taking on the role of women accused of witchcraft, others acting as defence counsel, and others as prosecution lawyers, this is a lively unit which really helps students to understand the difference between facts, opinions and bias. After the classroom vote on who was &#8220;most guilty&#8221;, it would be good fun to put the &#8220;victim&#8221; through the &#8220;water test&#8221; &#8211; ie pour a small glass of water over their head, declare them guilty as charged, and then &#8220;brand&#8221; them with the word &#8220;witch&#8221; across their forehead in board marker. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Witch Trial and accompanying record sheet is always one of the highlights of the Year 8 course! With some students taking on the role of women accused of witchcraft, others acting as defence counsel, and others as prosecution lawyers, this is a lively unit which really helps students to understand the difference between facts,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/a-classroom-witch-trial\/\">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-4E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}