Humanities
(History)
KS3 Curriculum Breakdown
2016/17
Year 7
HT1 History Skills
(7 weeks)
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Baseline assessment
Chronology
Primary and Secondary Sources
Anachronisms
Bias
Using evidence (Tollund Man)
Year 8
Victorian Britain
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Baseline assessment
Changing landscape of England
Life in Victoria Britain
 new technology and the economy
 social conditions
Empire
1066
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Life before 1066
Contenders to the throne
Battle of Stamford Bridge
Armies and Weapons
Events of the Battle of Hastings
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Why did Great Britain need an Empire?
Case study of India
Slavery
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What is slavery
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Outcome of the Battle of Hastings
Assessment
Bayeux Tapestry
HT2 Norman Control of English
(7 weeks)
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Political power in the Iron Age and the Roman times
Political power in Viking and Anglo-Saxon times
Problems facing William I
Harrying of the North
Castle types
Attacking and defending a castle
Feudal system
Doomsday Book
Medieval Life
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Life in a medieval village
Life in a medieval town
Guide to life in a medieval town
Revision
Assessment
Assessment feedback
HT3 Medieval Life (con...)
(6 weeks
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Medieval church
Doom paintings
Power of the Pope
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Trade triangle
Middle passage
Sale of slaves
Life as a slave
Slave resistance
Who benefitted from the slave trade?
Assessment
Slavery (con…)
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Abolition of the slave trade
American civil war
Emancipation and reconstruction
Civil Rights Movement
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Jim Crow Laws
KKK
Blacks in WW1 and WW2
NAACP
Little Rock
Murder of Emmitt Till
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Greensboro Sit-ins and Freedom rides
MLK – Birmingham and March on Washington
MLK Selma
Civil Rights Act
Black Power and Malcolm X
Assessment
Titanic
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Class differences
Causes of sinking
Survivors and data
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Crusades
Henry II and Thomas Becket
Assessment
Richard the Lionheart
Robin Hood
King John
Magna Carta
Plague causes
Plague cures
Plague Significance
Peasants revolt
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Liberal Reforms
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HT4 The Tudors
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Wars of the Roses
Princes in the Tower
Battle of Bosworth and Henry VII
Family tree and intro to Henry VIII
Henry’s problems
Henry VIII wives
Why did Henry break Rome?
Dissolution of the monasteries
Reformation
Assessment
Assessment feedback
Liberal reforms
 causes
 actions and impact
Political Power and Women’s Suffrage
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(4 weeks)
Survival stories
Assessment
Assessment feedback
1832 reform act and the Chartists
Reforms after 1832
Political Power and Women’s Suffrage (con…)
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Arguments for and against votes for women
NUWSS suffragists
WSPU suffragists
Death of Emily Davidson
Force feeding and Cat and Mouse Act
Women in WW1 and Representation of the People Act
Assessment preparation
Assessment (write up)
WW1
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Causes of WW1 (3 fuses and 1 spark)
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Joining up
Conscription
Conscientious
Objectors
Fighting in the trenches
HT5 The Tudors (con...)
(7 weeks)
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Tudor Torture
Edward VI
Mary I consider how and why sources are different
Assessment
Elizabeth’s problems and solutions
Elizabeth’s portraits
Mary Queen of Scots
Spanish Armada (causes and events)
WW1 (con…)
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WW2
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HT6 The Stuarts
(7 weeks)
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James I (consider how and why sources are different)
Gunpowder Plot
Causes of the Civil War
Civil War (armies and weapons)
Civil War (events)
Civil War (trial and execution)
Oliver Cromwell (hero or villain; consider how and why
sources are different)
Assessment
Plague
Fire
Witchcraft
Restoration of monarchy and power of Parliament Inc.
glorious revolution
Weapons
Battle of the Somme
Conditions in the trenches
Assessment preparation
Assessment
End of WW1 Inc. Treaty of Versailles
Evacuation
Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
Blitz
WW2 (con…)
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Rationing
Pearl Harbour
D-Day
Atomic
 bomb causes
 bomb consequences
Assessment
Holocaust
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Hatred towards the Jews
Nazi policies towards the Jews
Nazi treatment of the Jews
JFK
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The Assassin
Key events
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Evidence of guilt
News report and debate