Check out my Cut-Throat Celts Unit Study to find out just how cut-throat the Celts really were… Or were they?
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Cut-Throat Celts {Horrible Histories} by Terry Deary
In Cut-Throat Celts Terry Deary explains how much of what is “known” about the Celts was written by the enemies of the Celts, particularly the Romans and is therefore possibly unreliable except when backed by other evidence.
Suggested Schedule
We try to have a light workload on Fridays, so we read the entire book in just four days. This is the reading schedule we followed:
- 1st Day- Read pages 5-37
- 2nd Day- Read pages 38-70
- 3rd Day- Read pages 71-102
- 4th Day- Read pages 103-128
- 5th Day- Complete quiz on pages 129-134
If you are reading this book with younger students you may want to split the reading up over two weeks rather than one. My children are 11 and 13, and have no trouble sitting through our daily reading.
Extras…
This year I am using the whole Horrible Histories set with Julia and Jack as our core history curriculum. As I am sure you have already figured out these books are not a curriculum on their own, so I will be adding extra materials to our schedule to take our learning a step further. Want to join in on the fun? Here is everything I added in this week:
Books
In addition to Cut-Throat Celts, we also read:
- Celtic Tales by Kate Forrester
- Celtic Mythology by Philip Freeman
Videos
This week we went back to the other version of Horrible Histories on Amazon Video, and skipped to Season 3 Episode 12 (If you want to skip to just the Celtic portion of this episode it starts at 10:10). In this episode you get to witness a Celtic warrior boast battle!
We also watched Empire Games Season 1 Episode 5 on Netflix.
Special note: This episode does show the naked backside of a man. It also discusses how Queen Boudica’s daughters were raped by Roman soldiers.
Project
This week to change things up a bit I printed out Celtic Coloring Pages like the one below for Jack and Julia.
This is not something that they would like to do all of the time, but with everyone feeling a little under the weather lately it was nice for them to have a relaxing activity to do while listening to some fantastic Celtic tales.
Thank you for checking out my Cut-Throat Celts Unit Study…
We have also completed the following Horrible Histories Unit Studies:
Savage Stone Age
Awesome Egyptians
Groovy Greeks
Rotten Romans
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