{"id":2885,"date":"2013-10-24T17:37:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T14:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2013-10-21T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:39:05","slug":"researching-and-presenting-the-origins-of-surnames-of-people-in-the-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/researching-and-presenting-the-origins-of-surnames-of-people-in-the-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching and presenting the origins of surnames of people in the school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/Year_7\/surnames.php\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2886\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>What&#8217;s in a name? &#8211; Researching and presenting the origins of surnames of people in the school<\/p>\n<p>In this activity, students research the origins of surnames of people in the school.<br \/>\nThey then narrow this down to the names which originate from occupations, and present each of these in a PowerPoint slide with an accompanying image.<br \/>\nThese are then printed off and arranged through discussion into a &#8216;Diamond9&#8217; diagram with the most &#8216;high status&#8217; jobs towards the top, and the &#8216;low status&#8217; jobs towards the bottom.<br \/>\nThis adds an interesting dimension to the investigation about &#8220;Was Life Good or Bad in the Middle Ages?&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in a name? &#8211; Researching and presenting the origins of surnames of people in the school In this activity, students research the origins of surnames of people in the school. They then narrow this down to the names which originate from occupations, and present each of these in a PowerPoint slide with an accompanying&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-7-history\/researching-and-presenting-the-origins-of-surnames-of-people-in-the-school\/\">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":[10,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Kx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885"}],"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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}