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    1066 and Before That - History Poems
    1066 and Before That - History Poems
    1066 and Before That - History Poems
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    1066 and Before That - History Poems

    By Brian Moses and Roger Stevens

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    A fantastic collection of history poems that conjure up the sights, sounds and smells of the past – both the great events and battles, and ordinary day-to-day activities.

    Perfect for young history fans, 1066 and Before That from Brian Moses and Roger Stevens ties in with the history curriculum for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. There are poems about prehistoric times, mammoths, the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great, Normans, King Harold, William the Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateApr 7, 2016
    ISBN9781447283959
    1066 and Before That - History Poems
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    Brian Moses

    Brian Moses spends much of his time visiting schools, where he runs workshops sessions and performs his poetry. He has compiled numerous collections for Macmillan (total sales of over 750,000 copies), including The Works 2 and The Secret Lives of Teachers. He lives in Sussex with his wife and two daughters.

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      Book preview

      1066 and Before That - History Poems - Brian Moses

      ICE AND SNOW

      Born into a world of ice and snow

      Everywhere you look

      Everywhere you go

      Ice and snow

      More ice, more snow

      Born into a world of ice and snow

      There is a garden, far, far away

      The rumours say, the rumours say

      Where the sun always shines

      And butterflies play . . .

      What are they?

      What are they?

      Now we stoke the fire

      With our dwindling wood

      Wrapped up in our deer hides

      Eat the last of our food

      How I dream of a garden

      With no ice and no snow

      What does that look like?

      Will we ever know?

      Ice and snow,

      Ice and snow,

      We’ll never know

      Roger Stevens

      There is evidence that when the last great Ice Age happened, the humans that survived lived in an area on Africa’s southern coast, the only part of the world that remained habitable. Some people claim that this was the basis for the Garden of Eden story in the Bible. And indeed for similar stories told by other religions and in other civilizations.

      TWO MAMMOTH POEMS

      1. Why?

      Why was a mammoth called a mammoth

      and not an ‘enormous’ or a ‘colossal’?

      And how did they know what to call it

      when they discovered the very first fossil?

      2. Fossil

      Now, many years from the Ice Age

      a fossilized piece of bone

      helps us make sense of the mammoth

      like an ancient text message in stone.

      Brian Moses

      It’s a bit of a mystery why creatures were given their names. How did scientists and archaeologists know what to call their discoveries? And, of course, there’s a message in everything we find from the past.

      WHAT IS THE USE OF THAT?

      What’s that?

      It’s a wheel?

      What does it do?

      It goes round

      Round and round

      Along the ground.

      Well, what is the use of that?

      What’s that?

      It’s a clock.

      What does it do?

      Tells the time.

      We’ve the sun, we’ve the moon

      Got midnight, got noon

      Well, what is the use of that?

      What’s that?

      It’s writing.

      What does it do?

      It’s exciting.

      All these new ideas

      It will all end in tears

      Now I’ve had my say, and that’s that.

      Roger Stevens

      The ancient Sumer civilization grew up around the meeting point of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Mesopotamia (now known as Iraq) around seven thousand years ago, because of its natural fertility. It is often called the ‘cradle of civilization’ – and some people say the Sumerians were the world’s greatest inventors.

      CAVE PAINTING

      A mammoth hunt

      on a cave wall.

      Stick people holding spears,

      painted with charcoal,

      stained with berries.

      A tribe’s history

      handed down.

      And below the hunt

      a handprint.

      A child, maybe,

      reaching up . . .

      One thought in his head

      to make it clear . . .

      ‘I was here,

      I existed,

      I lived,

      I survived . . .

      ‘And this

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