Yearly Overview-Year Five- History
Focus
Islam
Key aspects including: Muhammad: the last prophet, Allah, Qur’an, Sacred
city of Mecca, mosques, ‘Five pillars’ of Islam’
Autumn One
The Rise of Islam
Resources
Areas to cover
The Prophet Muhammad
Angel Gabriel visits Muhammad
Muhammad ascends to heaven and receives instructions from God
Muhammad forced to leave Mecca and travels to Medina, this journey is
called the Hidjra.
Muhammad leads an army to raid Mecca and rid the city of people who
worshipped many gods.
The Spread of Islam
The Holy Land, Jerusalem
The Crusades
Saladin and Richard the Lionheart
The Creation of Great Britain
William III and Mary I’s succession.
Queen Anne, and her failure to have an heir.
John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, and the Battle of Blenheim.
 The BBC has many videos on
Islam, particularly covering the five
pillars.
 Islam: Empire of Faith is a high
budget documentary on the history
of Islam, and The Crusades:
Crescent and the Cross is also
good.
 Articles of Faith sell school
resources on world religions.
 Islam by Phillip Wikinson and
Religion by Myrtle Langley, both
published by Dorling Kindersley.
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Autumn Two
The Creation of
Great Britain
George I
The Hanoverian Succession and the coronation of George I.
The reason for George I’s succession.
Robert Walpole: the first Prime Minister?
The development of Parliamentary government.
Bonnie Prince Charlie
The reasons for Jacobite resistance.
The 1745 uprising.
The Battle of Culloden.
The suppression of the highlands.
The Young Oxford History of Britain
& Ireland, pages 270-272.
Great Tales from English History by
Robert Lacey, pages 303-321.
The BBC ‘Scotland’s History’ page
has a number of clips from the
documentaries Scotland’s Empire
and A History of Scotland.
Global trade
How the British Empire emerged from global trade.
Trade routes and products traded by the British Empire.
Spring One
The birth of the
British Empire
The Seven Years War
The start of the British Empire’s rapid expansion.
Victory in Canada. General Wolfe and the Battle of Quebec.
The expansion of the East India Company.
India and the Battle of Plassey. #
Gains made elsewhere.
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Life as a British seaman
Conditions on board a Royal Navy ship.
Impressment gangs.
Culture and lifestyle of seamen.
The Thirteen Colonies
Britain’s settlement of North America, and development of the colonies.
Names of the colonies and towns showing British origin.
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Spring Two
Summer One
The American
War of
Independence
The French
Revolution
Taxation without representation
Reason for colonist’s anger.
Colonist protests against British rule.
The Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party.
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The Young Oxford History of Britain
& Ireland, pages 239-254.
Great Tales from English History by
Robert Lacey, pages 298-301; 324332.
The National Archives has an
excellent set of resources on the
British Empire.
Clips from films could be used, e.g.
The Bounty (1984), Last of the
Mohican's (1992), and Master and
Commander (2003) and the recent
BBC series Empire.
The American Revolution 17741783 by Daniel Marston is a good
overview of the conflict.
The documentary America, The
Story of Us (2010) is an engaging
introduction.
The excellent HBO series John
Adams (2009) dramatizes much of
the period.
War of Independence
Declaration of Independence, and the role of Thomas Jefferson.
American victory in the War of Independence.
The role of George Washington.
Victory at Yorktown.
The French Revolution
France before the Revolution.
The three estates.
Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Palace of Versailles.
Execution of Louis XVI.
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The Rise of Napoleon
Early military success and the conquest of Italy.
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A Little History of the World by
Ernst Gombrich (chapters 34 and
35).
Great Tales from English History by
Robert Lacey (pages 350-353, and
358-361).
The Young Oxford History of Britain
& Ireland, pages 277-285.
Rise to power in France.
Coronation as Emperor.
Military campaigns.
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Scenes from the films Waterloo
(1970), the TV mini-series
Napoleon (2002) and La Révolution
Française (1989).
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There are many excellent online
resources for slavery. The
Understanding Slavery initiative is
excellent, as are the National
Archives and the BBC pages on
slavery.
The television series Roots (1977)
is a fantastic resource, telling the
story of a slave named Kunta Kinte
who is taken from the Gambia to an
American plantation.
The Young Oxford History of Britain
& Ireland, pages 250-253.
English Involvement
The Battle of Trafalgar.
The Battle of Waterloo.
Exile of Napoleon on St Helena.
The Slave Trade
The triangular trade.
Capture of slaves in Western Africa.
Summer Two
The Abolition of
Slavery
Life as a slave
Conditions on the middle passage.
Brookes slave ship.
Olaudah Equiano.
Daily life as a slave. Conditions on plantations.
Abolitionism
Different abolitionists: William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Granville
Sharpe.
Different methods used by abolitionists: petitions, boycotts, publishing.
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