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They are activities to explore at your pace, not events with registration. The indicated time is that of reading support.

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279 proposals in this selection

Travel through time

Read the document carefully

One parish, many small settlements

Counting households was not the same as counting people.

Vila Nune · settlement described in 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. Search the text for places with eight neighbors, five neighbors and one resident.
  2. On a sheet, it connects Granja to the church and Vale to the referred proximity, without drawing an exact location.
  3. Compare the words used to count in Vila Nune and Painzela. Keeps the numbers accompanied by the respective category.

A proposal to distinguish documented information and interpretation.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Travel through time

Read the number and the unit

How was a parish counted?

In 1758, Painzela’s portrait counted households and people admitted to the sacraments.

Painzela · reading a document from 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. It makes two cards: 137 fireworks and 439 sacramental souls.
  2. Underlines the word that accompanies each number.
  3. Write a question that the register does not answer, like the total number of inhabitants of all ages.

Do not divide these values to calculate the average size of families: categories do not necessarily cover the same people.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Travel through time

Read the names carefully

A parish told through sixteen settlements

In 1758, Faia appears as a network of small settlements.

Faia · settlement described in 1758

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  1. Choose three names from the list of 1758 and copy them as they appear in the reading.
  2. Compare this description with the history of EN206. What elements help each source present the settlement?
  3. It marks the date of the ancient testimony and leaves no confirmation of any equivalence between historical names and current places.

A documentary comparison; it is not a proposal to locate houses or draw borders.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Travel through time

Read the numbers with their names

Two old portraits, two ways of counting

A short note can open a window onto history too.

Gondiães and Vilar de Cunhas · published notes on 1758

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  1. Make two lines, one for Gondiães and one for Vilar.
  2. In each line, he copies the number and the word that accompanies him: fires, neighbors or souls.
  3. Adds the name of the church and the historical date. Keeps blank what the notes do not clarify.

Documental reading exercise, without converting these categories into current statistics.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Travel through time

Read a bridge through the inventory

Three bridges, three stories of passage

A bridge’s name does not tell its whole construction story.

Gondiães · heritage recorded in an inventory; current access unverified

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  1. Split a sheet into three columns, one by bridge.
  2. Write down the material and date when the document indicates them.
  3. It marks the gaps with a question mark, not complete by guesswork.

Documental comparison, no movement to structures or collection of materials.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Read a painted table

A table painted more than three centuries ago

Plates, cutlery and napkins tell stories too.

Refojos · painting of 1703, studied in 2011

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  1. List the objects highlighted in the study: dishes, salt shakers, cutlery and napkins.
  2. Make a free scheme of these objects and identify it as drawing from the description, not as copy of the painting.
  3. Separate three references: date of work, date of study and missing information about the current exposure.

Proposal on paper or on screen, from reading and its sources. It does not require visit, collection of objects or confirmation of current conditions.

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Brings questions to visit

Before the bread, there was a field

At the Casa do Pão, the story begins with grain.

Abadim · bread heritage

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  1. Imagine a visit in three moments: field, pasta preparation and oven.
  2. Choose, among the objects presented, one whose function is unknown and look for explanation in the exhibition.
  3. Link the object to a step; do not assign a use for its appearance only.

Confirms the conditions of visit on the form and respects the indications of the space.

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Between rivers and mountains

Connect water to work

The river became part of farming life

A cultivated riverbank tells history too.

Santa Senhorinha · 1758 account

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  1. Draws a river and three cards: irrigation, mills and olive oil mills.
  2. Connects each card to the places mentioned in the text when the document identifies them.
  3. He adds a question about the present: what traces would it take to document to compare the two seasons?

Memory-based scheme 1758; does not indicate accesses or operating equipment.

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Travel through time

Connect places and invocations

Fifteen settlements, a network of chapels

Distance from the church also shaped village life.

Rio Douro · settlements and chapels described in 1758

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  1. Write the places cited and put aside the associated invocation.
  2. It distinguishes the matrix church of the hermits mentioned in the document.
  3. Compared with the chapels of the Faia: what relations appear between buildings, families and community?

A historical scheme of relationships, without coordinates or visiting routes.

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Life you do not always see

Connects food to the landscape

Small hunters with a role in the landscape

Eating insects connects bats with fields and forests too.

Bats · general ecological roles

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  1. It makes three cards: insects, fruits and pollen.
  2. Add to each one the ecological relationship described in the text.
  3. Check the examples worldwide and open the related reading to know the local document register.

An activity of reading and comparison; it is not necessary to seek shelters or approach animals.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Read the landscape through the plants

Alloy plant, soil and water

A carnivorous plant in the mountains

Sundew is one of Cabreira’s small surprises.

Serra da Cabreira · flora and habitat

See the 3 steps
  1. Draws three boxes: turtledove, water and soil nutrients.
  2. Connect sundew with the constant moisture described in the story.
  3. Opens the leaf trap story and adds an arrow to the insects.

A map of relationships made from sources, without going into bogs or looking for a population.

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Connects four parts of rural life

Not all grain was the same

Rye, milho-alvo and milhão appear side by side in the old account.

Saint Nicholas · agriculture described in 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. Write four words on a leaf: fields, mountains, water and animals.
  2. Draw arrows for the relationships described: water for the fields, mount for the pasture, animals that gathered at night.
  3. It follows the history of cattle and adds a question about the organization of work.

The scheme summarizes historical testimony, without rebuilding current paths or times.

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