{"id":3861,"date":"2016-09-15T21:10:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2016-09-27T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:11:18","slug":"using-limericks-as-a-revision-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/using-limericks-as-a-revision-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Using limericks as a revision tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>As part of a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/takeaway-homework\/\">choose your own homework<\/a>&#8216; menu, give students the option to produce a set of limericks to help them memorise some key events, dates or individuals.<\/p>\n<h2>Case Study<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example produced by one of my students when\u00a0the homework was simply &#8216;choose a topic from our GCSE studies that you are not currently confident on, and produce any resource of your choice that will help you revise it more effectively for the exam&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-83-1024x610.\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-24-at-18-58-32\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Taking it further<\/h2>\n<p>As with all &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/takeaway-homework\/\">choose your own homework<\/a>&#8216; exercises, it is a good idea to adopt a matching &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/from-takeaway-homework-to-takeaway-mark-scheme\/\">choose your own mark scheme<\/a>&#8216; activity to accompany it.<\/p>\n<p>Some students may prefer to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/create-a-bio-poem-to-capture-the-essence-of-the-study-topic\/\">write a Bio-Poem<\/a>\u00a0rather than a limerick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview As part of a &#8216;choose your own homework&#8216; menu, give students the option to produce a set of limericks to help them memorise some key events, dates or individuals. Case Study Here&#8217;s an example produced by one of my students when\u00a0the homework was simply &#8216;choose a topic from our GCSE studies that you are&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/using-limericks-as-a-revision-tool\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[629,324,630],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-10h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861"}],"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=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}