Your task is to find out about "Operation Pied Piper."
1. Read through "Operation Pied Piper" and "The Day of Evacuation" on the following page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml
As you read, take a few "pistachio shell" notes about Operation Pied Piper. What happened? When? Who was involved? Why?
2. Watch the following video with the sound off. Jot down a few more notes for anything that stands out to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abLgfmzTO64&feature=related
Group 2:
Your task is to find out about English country homes. What were they like? In what ways were they different than the London townhomes from which many children came?
1. Use Google images to search the following (these houses were estates during World War II and are still around today). This will give you an idea of what the country homes looked like:
Knebworthhouse, Wollaton Hall, Woburn Abbey, Kiddington Manor, Hinwick House
2. Read the first paragraph on the following Wikipage. Take a few pistachio-shell notes to summarize what you read:
3. Compare and contrast city life to country life here. This page describes the "wartime homes" that were often in urban parts of England:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_war2/wartime_homes/
Group 3:
Your task is to find out about the author of The Chronicles of Narnia. View this page on Fact Monster to record 6 important facts about C.S. Lewis:
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/narnia-lewis.html
Group 4:
Your task is to help us prepare for Chapter 1 of the novel by defining some vocabulary terms. When discussing the terms with your group, try your best to use a quick synonym or short definition. Here are the terms (record their definitions using http://www.merriam-webster.com/; you may have to look elsewhere for terms that were specific to mid-century Britain).
splendid
row (as in "We got into an awful row today.")
passages
wireless (as used in mid-century Britain)
looking glass
wardrobe
blue-bottle
inquisitive
muffler
parcels
faun