Teaching Ideas
- Take the children back in time to the night before The Great Fire. 
- Ask the children what they notice about London at this time.  Is it what they expected? 
- What are the differences?  What are the similarities?
- Why is the washing hung across the streets and pigs hanging outside buildings?
- Assign the children roles of various tradespeople who may be living there: baker, butcher, priest, beggar. 
- Using drama techniques ask the children to move around the classroom as if it is the street and communicate with each other in role. 
- During the drama session, ask the children to go to sleep, they hear noises; screams and crackling awake them.  They smell smoke. How do they react?
- Children can write about their own experiences. 
- Write diary entries and news reports of the events.