History Department
Year 13 Course Outline 2016-2017
AQA – American Dream
WEEKS
1
2
3
4
5
6
CONTENT
REPORTS
Coursework Skills Update – Assessing Historical Sources
State of US in 1963
LBJ – Outlook and War on Poverty
Success/ Failure of Great Society
Vietnam
Cont and events in Middle East/ relations with Europe
Parents’ Evening
Civil Rights Legislation
HALF TERM
7
8
9
10
11
12
Civil Rights movement Vs Black Power
Riots and Divides in Society
Cont – Milestone Assessment - LBJ
Nixon’s Election Victory
Nixon Domestic Policy
Nixon – Civil Rights.
Full Report
XMAS
13
14
15
16
17
18
Vietnam and Cambodia
Kissinger and Détente
Watergate and the Downfall of Nixon
Cont
Domestic Failure post Nixon – Ford and Carter Domestic
Policies
Cont
Snapshot
HALF TERM
19
20
21
22
23
24
Mid-Year Assessment
Foreign Policy – Détente and the end of it.
Black America in the 1970s
The US in 1980
Classroom Week for Coursework
INTERNAL DEADLINE FOR COURSEWORK – 24/3/17
Comparison between 1945 and 1980
EASTER
25
26
27
28
29
30
Revision – Domestic Policies
Resit of Mid-Year Assessment as required.
Foreign Policies
Black America
Elections
Timeline exercises
Study Leave???
HALF TERM
31
32
33
34
35
36
Full Report
History Department
Year 13 Course Outline 2016-2017
AQA – The Tudors
WEEKS
1
2
3
4
5
6
CONTENT
Coursework Skills Update – Assessing Historians
State of England in 1547
Regency of Somerset
Cont
Regency of Northumberland
Cont
Mary’s Religious Policy
HALF TERM
7
Marriage and Rebellion
8
9
Mary’s Foreign Policy Failure
Extent of Mid Tudor Crisis
Elizabeth’s Accession to the Throne
Elizabeth’s Religious Settlement
Cont
XMAS
13
14
Marriage and the Soc/Econ State of England mid 16th Century
Elizabeth’s Court and Dudley
15
16
17
18
Government and dealings with Parliament
Cont
Elizabeth and her Religious policies
Cont (and the state of the Church of England by 1603)
HALF TERM
19
20
21
22
23
Mid-Year Assessment
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
Parents’ Evening
Milestone Assessment – Reigns of Edward VI and Mary I
10
11
12
24
REPORTS
Mary Queen of Scots
Foreign Policy
Trade and Colonisation
Class time for Coursework completion
INTERNAL DEADLINE FOR COURSEWORK – 24/3/17
Elizabeth’s Final Years
EASTER
Revision – Thematically: Contribution of Advisors/ ministers
Opposition/ extent of Royal Power
Religious change
Foreign policy
Cont
Study Leave???
HALF TERM
Full Report
Snapshot
Full Report