I’m doing a presentation for curriculum leaders tomorrow about explicitly teaching tier 2 vocab. #historyteacher, hit me with your most common tier 2 errors (or words you wish your students knew better) Monastery and policy are big ones for us at the moment.

Essentially anything quite abstract. That sometimes requires a diagram to support understanding - containment, siege, revolution are the few that spring to mind

Government. It means very different things in their heads both today and in the past and takes a lot of un picking!

Ha, the etymology of Orchid is from ‘testicle’ (orchis in Ancient Greek) and in Middle English, orchids were called ‘ballockwort’ because the roots look like balls. *adds to presentation…*