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Battle of Marathon…

This week we have learnt about the very famous “Battle of Marathon” in our topic lesson. We’ve started to write about this battle in the form of a recount from the perspective of an important eye-witness at the battle.

  

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  1. mani

    I wrote from the point of view an Athenian solider called Kevin

  2. Ben Be (school council)

    I really enjoyed writing up my recount of the battle of marathon, I also enjoyed learning about the event.

  3. leah

    i really liked this activity as i like to write recounts!

  4. Chelsea

    I enjoyed writing about the battle of marathon in the context of a recount.

  5. Sam Salter

    I enjoyed this lesson as I haven’t done a recount in a long time. I also learnt lots of new things – I had never heard of the Battle of Marothon and now I know the entire story.

  6. Joe

    I enjoyed writing this up and editing it!!

  7. Janet

    I loved writing a recount of the Battle of Marathon;I learned a lot from the Battle of Marathon too!
    🙂

  8. Molly

    My recounts from the perspective of the Athenian general.

  9. Lucy

    I enjoyed writing about the battle of Marathon, also I learnt a lot about it. 🙂

  10. Alexander Savkovic (playground buddy)

    I really enjoyed writing up the diary entry using lots of fronted adverbials’ sentence openers. 🙂 😀

  11. FLETCHER!

    it was a fun lesson and the Athenian generals plan was really smart

  12. Ivy

    I enjoyed writing the recount of the Battle Of Marathon! 🙂

  13. Aruma

    This was a very exciting lesson, one of my favourite piece’s of writing we have done so far! 😀

  14. Lauren

    I really liked writing our own recount in English of the battle using the year six writing assessment.

  15. olivia

    I really enjoyed learning about the battle of marathon and then to be able to write a recount was really fun .

  16. Kyle

    really liked this lesson about the Marathon it was interesting to read but to also write in the perspective of one of the Persians, Athenians,King Darius or Miltiades the instructor.

  17. Harvey

    I realy enjoyed writing in the role of a persian soldier

  18. Harvey

    I realy enjoyed writing in the role of a persian soldier

  19. Amalie

    I enjoyed writting up all of the Battle because it was fun and I learnt a lot! 🙂

  20. Travis

    The battle was quite interesting. But the difference of deaths… I think 600 Athenians died and like, 3000 Persians died? What a difference!

  21. kyran

    I liked writing a recount about the battle of Marathon.

  22. Eddy

    I really enjoyed this task as was a fun topic and i like writing recounts!!!

  23. Nicola

    I loved writing about the Battle Of Marathon!

  24. Kian

    I enjoyed righting about the battle of Marathon from the point of view from a hoplite in the battle.

  25. ben

    the battle of marathon story/recount got my brain hard at work as i was thinking what my character would be thinking,also i was thinking about my working at expected standers.But even though i was working so hard i enjoyed it very much and ended up with a high quality story.