Dear Herbert

Part One

Take a look at this document and see what you can spot, remember to start in the very top corners!

Part Two

Here is another page from the document that the drawings come from. Using the skills you’ve practiced, take a look at this document.

Part Three

Using the evidence you’ve gathered, I’d like you to try and work out what this document is:

• What could this document be?
• Who wrote it?
• Why?
• When?
• What did you think about, feel or imagine as you read this document?

Part Four

Interview with Jodi Ann Bickley

Additional document to investigate:

See what you can discover about this document – look closely at the two extracts before you read the answers!

Follow-up activity:

Now that you’ve studied archive documents and chatted with Jodi, you can take part in the main letter writing activity.

We would like you to write a handwritten letter – it can be to anyone you like, and about anything!  Check out this website for more letter-writing tips: https://www.readingrockets.org/article/introduction-letter-writing#act4

Once you’ve done that, please take a photo of your letter or of you posting your letter (observing social distancing guidelines), and email or tweet your photos to us!

We really want to see as many of you handwritten special letters as possible!