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SUBJECT: History
Year
10
2015-2016
TOPIC
LEVELS/GRADES
SMSC
This half term initiates the start of
the GCSE syllabus, looking at the
Core Content for Paper 1. The
Core Content will cover the Cold
War 1945 to 1975 and a depth
study that will cover the USA 1919
- 1941. The exam paper is 2 hours
long and makes up 40% of the
final grade. Students will focus on
Beginning of the Cold War and
then move on to start to look at
the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Grade A:
I can recall, select, organise
and use detailed historical
knowledge effectively and
with consistency. I can
demonstrate complete
understanding of the topics
studied. I can communicate
my ideas using historical
terms accurately and
appropriately. I can
demonstrate my
understanding of the past
through developed,
reasoned and well
supported (evidence)
explanations. I can analyse
the key concepts, features
and characteristics of the
topics studied. I can
evaluate a wide range of
sources of information to
investigate historical
questions independently,
and to reach reasoned and
supported (evidence)
conclusions. I can provide
reasoned comments on
how and why events,
people and issues have
been interpreted in
different ways, and provide
a well-developed
Student will focus
on why different
countries follow
different cultures
and ideologies and
how this can lead
to conflict and
resolution can be
difficult. Students
will also
contemplate the
role of government
and how it can
ensure our safety
but also put it at
risk.
LITERACY
ASSESSMENTS
Communism, Dictatorship, Big End of Topic Assessment:
3, Allies , Great Powers,
Beginning of the Cold War
Atomic Bomb, Iron Curtain,
Reparations , Cominform,
USA, Sphere of Influence,
Truman Doctrine, Marshall
Plan, Berlin Blockade, NATO,
Warsaw Pact, USSR,
Capitalism, Bay of Pigs,
Revolution, ICBM, MRBM,
Excomm, Blockade,
Quarantine, First strike
capabilities, Containment,
SEATO, CENTO, Arms race,
Nuclear weapon, Surgical air
attack, Diplomatic pressure,
Invasion, Cuba, Turkey,
Sputnik, Polaris, Duck and
cover
Writing Styles: Reading for
purpose, report writing,
explanation answers,
judgement answers, using
quotes,
judgement on which is most
likely to be correct.
This half term continues the GCSE
syllabus, looking at the Core
Content for Paper 1. The Core
Content will cover the Cold War
1945 to 1975 and a depth study
that will cover the USA 1919 1941. The exam paper is 2 hours
long and makes up 40% of the
final grade. Students will finish
looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis
and then look at the last unit for
the Core Unit of the Vietnam War.
AS ABOVE
Students will look
at different
responses to war
and how we can
protest. They will
also evaluate the
role of the media in
in forming our
social and cultural
believes.
Viet Minh, Indochina, Viet
Cong, Strategic Hamlet
Programme, Containment,
Domino Theory, Militaryindustrial Complex, NVA,
Guerrilla Warfare, Booby
Traps, Tunnel Complex,
Agent Orange, Napalm,
Search and Destroy, Draft,
Ho Chi Minh Trail, My Lai,
Charlie Company, MACV, Tet
Offensive, Civil Rights,
Nation of Islam, Great
Society, Vietnamisation,
SALT, Watergate Scandal,
Saigon,
End of Topic Assessment:
Cuban Missile Crisis
End of Topic Assessment:
Vietnam War
Writing Styles: Reading for
purpose, newspapers,
explanation answers,
judgement answers, using
quotes,
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This half term continues the
GCSE syllabus, looking at the
Depth Study for Paper 1. The
Depth Study will cover the USA
1919 - 1941, students will have
already studied the Core Content
element on the Cold War 1945 1975. The exam paper is 2 hours
long and makes up 40% of the
AS ABOVE
Students should
reflect upon how
much a
government should
interfere in our
everyday lives. Also
exploring why
minority cultures
can often find
Roaring twenties, flappers,
cinema, jazz music,
entertainment, morals,
prejudice, intolerance, KKK,
speculation, Sacco and
Vanzetti, vanishing American,
Monkey Trial, Prohibition,
alcohol gangsters, Al Capone,
Chicago , speakeasy,
End of Topic Assessment:
USA in the 1920s
final grade. Students will focus on
the USA in the 1920s and then
start to look at what caused the
Wall Street Crash.
themselves being
persecuted.
moonshine, corruption,
organised crime , Women’s,
Christian Temperance Union,
Wall Street Crash
Writing Styles: Reading for
purpose, diaries,
explanation answers,
judgement answers, using
quotes,
This half term continues the GCSE
syllabus, looking at the Depth
Study for Paper 1. The Depth
Study will cover the USA between
1919 - 1941, students will have
already studied the Core Content
element on the Cold War 1945 1975. The exam paper is 2 hours
long and makes up 40% of the
final grade. Students will finish
looking at the causes of the Wall
Street crash before moving onto
looking at the New Deal
AS ABOVE
Students will
continue to look at
the ideas of how
much interference
a government
should have in our
everyday lives. Also
looking at what
causes poverty and
how this can be
tackled.
Do Nothing President, Bonus
Year 10 Exam
Marchers, Hundred Days,
End of Topic Assessment:
Alphabet Agencies, CCC, AAA, New Deal
NIRA, PWA, NRA, TVA, fireside
chats, Emergency Banking
Act, Securities Exchange
Commission, Federal
Emergency Relief
Administration, New Deal,
Second New Deal, Wagner
Act, Social Security Act, Work
Progress Administration,
Resettlement Administration,
Farm Security Act, Supreme
Court, Hoovervilles, Hoover
Dam
Writing Styles: Reading for
purpose, report writing,
explanation answers,
judgement answers, using
quotes,
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This half term starts the GCSE
syllabus, looking at the Controlled
Assessment element. The
controlled assessment element
AS ABOVE
Students will be
exploring different
styles of
government
Weimar Republic, democratic,
reparations, constitution,
socialist, freikorps, Ebert,
Versailles, Sparticist,
Students are working to
complete their controlled
assessment.
E
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looks at Germany 1919 to 1945.
The controlled assessment is
research, planned and written
within 8 hours and is worth 25%
on the final mark.
comparing
democracy to
dictatorship.
Looking at why
people can
indoctrinated in
specific ideologies
to shape a society.
Lastly exploring
why the Holocaust
occurred.
hyperinflation, Stresemann,
rentenmark, Dawes, culture,
Nazis, Hitler, putsch, Mein
Kampf, Depression, negative
cohesion, communist,
chancellor, dictatorship,
Reichstag, Fuhrer, Gestapo,
Concentration Camps,
Nuremburg, Jews,
indoctrination, rearmament,
volksmeinschaft, persecution,
ghetto.
Writing Styles: Reading for
purpose, using quotes,
extended writing
This half term continues the GCSE AS ABOVE
syllabus, completing the
Controlled Assessment element.
The controlled assessment
element looks at Germany 1919 to
1945. The controlled assessment is
research, planned and written
within 8 hours and is worth 25%
on the final mark.
Students will be
exploring different
styles of
government
comparing
democracy to
dictatorship.
Looking at why
people can
indoctrinated in
specific ideologies
to shape a society.
Lastly exploring
why the Holocaust
occurred.
Weimar Republic, democratic,
reparations, constitution,
socialist, freikorps, Ebert,
Versailles, Sparticist,
hyperinflation, Stresemann,
rentenmark, Dawes, culture,
Nazis, Hitler, putsch, Mein
Kampf, Depression, negative
cohesion, communist,
chancellor, dictatorship,
Reichstag, Fuhrer, Gestapo,
Concentration Camps,
Nuremburg, Jews,
indoctrination, rearmament,
volksmeinschaft, persecution,
ghetto.
Writing Styles: Reading for
purpose, using quotes,
extended writing
Students will complete their
controlled assessment.