Life on the plantation

Living and working as a slave

Learning Objective

To analyse the experiences of slaves on

C18th working on Caribbean plantations

Understanding the idea

Analysis is a Higher
Order Thinking Skill
(HOTS)
The definition of
analysis is - to separate
a whole into its parts
and find out how they
link together

Question Stems
Why do you think?
What is the
relationship...?
Can you compare...?
Can you contrast ...?
What idea is relevant
to ...?
How would you
categorise ...?
What can you infer ...?

Research Time
You will have ten
minutes to read
through pages 8-10
of the booklet
Write down what you
think are the 3 major
points of these pages

What did you come up

with?

Key facts
1.

2.

3.

Most work done by slaves was heavy

agricultural work in the fields
There were overseers who would enforce
the rules, sometimes with whips and
punishments
Their whole lives (including time at home)
were regulated

Individual work
Read again the pages of
information
Come up with 4 Questions
that you would like to see
answered, using the
question stems related to
analysis
For example: what was the
relationship between
drivers/foremen and
slaves?

Question Stems
Why do you think?
What is the
relationship...?
Can you compare...?
Can you contrast ...?
What idea is relevant
to ...?
How would you
categorise ...?
What can you infer ...?

Pair Work

Swap your jotters with a partner

Try and answer their questions

Homework

You will be answering the four questions

that you came up with for your homework