History 2016-17

History at Montgomery High School The history syllabus: Year Half Term 1 7 Medieval Life: The Norman Conquest

Half Term 2 Medieval Life: Towns, Health, Medicine

8

The Industrial Revolution

Native Americans

9

Germany 1890 – 1945: The growth of democracy

Germany 1890 – 1945: Germany and the Depression

10

Elizabethan England Vietnam 1960 – 1975: Controlled Assessment

Elizabethan England The Era of the Cold War 1943 – 1991: Deverlopment

11

Half Term 3 Medieval Life: Church and State

Half Term 4 Tudor England: The Reformation Power to the 20th Century People – Britain conflict and the USA Germany 1890 Conflict and – 1945: Tension 1918 Experiences – 1939: under the Nazis Peacemaking

Half Term 5 Stuart England: Civil War and Revolution Terrorism in the modern world Conflict and Tension 1918 – 1939: The League of Nations

Elizabethan England The Era of the Cold War 1943 – 1991: Crises and the end of the Cold War

Development of medicine Revision

Development of medicine Revision

Half Term 6 Early Modern Society: Rich, Poor, Witches and Fire Slave trade

Conflict and Tension 1918 – 1939: The origins and outbreak of World War II Development of medicine GCSE exams

What qualification will I get?

GCSE history

Course outline There are currently two GCSE courses being followed at present: 1. Current Year 9 and 10 students have begun their study of the AQA GCSE history course. This course offers students the opportunity of studying history within various contexts, namely a period study, a thematic study, a wider world depth study and a British depth study. The course is completed at the end of Year 11. There are two examination papers which incorporate all four topics studied over the three year course.

2. Current year 11 students are following the Edexcel Making of the Modern World GCSE history course. This involves a British depth study, a study in depth of one country, a wider world depth study and a Controlled Assessment. There are three examination papers that focus on the three separate topics studied. There is also Controlled Assessment which is worth 25% of the final grade.

How it’s assessed AQA GCSE history (Current Year 9 and 10) Paper 1 – Understanding the Modern World 1 hour 45 minutes Topics: Germany 1890 – 1945 Conflict and Tension 1918 - 1939 84 marks 50% of GCSE

Paper 2 – Shaping the Nation 1 hour 45 minutes Topics: Britain: Health and the People Elizabethan England 1558 - 1603 84 marks 50% of GCSE

Edexcel ‘The Making of the Modern World’ (Current Year 11) Paper 1 – International Relations 1 hour 15 minutes Topic: The Era of the Cold War 1943 - 1991

Paper 2 – Study in Depth

Paper 3 – British History

Controlled Assessment

1 hour 15 minutes Topic – Germany 1918 - 1939

2 hours 30 minutes Topic – Vietnam 1960 - 1975

53 marks 25% of GCSE

54 marks 25% of GCSE

1 hour 15 minutes Topic – War and Transformation of British Society 1903 - 1928 53 marks 25% of GCSE

50 marks 25% of GCSE

What can this course lead to?

GCSE history is an essential foundation for further study at A – level, degree level and beyond. The subject equips students with key skills of inference, analysis, judgement and evaluation. Its emphasis on acquiring and deploying knowledge enable young people to understand key issues more deeply and successfully. Qualifications in history open up many career opportunities including those in journalism, the law, teaching, the armed forces, advertising, tourism, the emergency services, politics and local government. There are many lessons to learn from history. These provide people with crucial moral perspectives. History makes you a better person!

Year 7

Cycle 1

Cycle 2

Cycle 3

Cycle 4

1066 and the Norman Conquest • 1066 • Castles • Feudal System • Thomas Becket • King John

Medieval life

• Medieval towns and villages • Black Death • Peasants Revolt • Robin Hood/folklore

Tudors and Stuarts

• Henry VIII • Reformation • Bloody Mary • Elizabeth and religious settlement • Gunpowder plot • Causes of English Civil War • English Civil War • Oliver Cromwell • Glorious Revolution

Social life

• Rich and Poor • Witchcraft • Great fire of London • Crime and Punishment

Year 8

Cycle 1

Cycle 2

Cycle 3

Cycle 4

Industrial Revolution • Urbanisation • Factories • Child Labour • Living conditions • Transport

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Native Americans 20 Century conflict • Early settlers • Causes of WW1 • Tribes • Weapons • Hunting/environment • Trench Warfare • Conflict with white settlers • Conscription • Native Americans today • Propaganda USA Civil rights • WW2 • Intolerance • Dunkirk • Segregation • Battle of Britain • MLK/Malcolm X and the fight • D-Day for Civil Rights • Holocaust • Bus Boycott • Home front • Little Rock

Irish history • Irish independence • Potato famine • IRB/IRA • Michael Collins

Slavery • Slave Trade • Triangular trade • Life on plantations • Abolition of slavery

Year 9 2016-17 Term 1

Unit Germany 1890 – 1945: The Growth of Democracy

Germany and the Depression

Term 2

Germany 1890 – 1945: Experiences under the Nazis

Topics The Kaiser reich • Growth of Socialism; • Industrialisation; • Military expansion; • Impact of World War I

The Weimar Republic • Early violence; • Treaty of Versailles; • Hyperinflation; • Recovery under Stresemann

The Great Depression • The Wall Street Crash; • Impact on Germany; • Growth of extremism; • Growth of Nazi Party; • Hitler establishes the Nazi dictatorship Economic changes • Benefits and drawbacks; • Unemployment; • Public Works programmes; • Re-armament • Impact of World War II on economy

Social policies and practice • Women; • Young people; • Churches; • Racial policy and persecution; • The Final Solution

Control • Propaganda and Censorship; • Nazi culture; • The Nazi police state

Assessment Practice using examination paper questions

Practice using examination paper questions

Term 3

• Opposition and

resistance

Conflict and Tension 1919 - Peacemaking 1939 • The Armistice; • Aims of the peacemakers; • Treaty of Versailles; • Impact of the Treaty

The League of Nations • Formation and Covenant; • Organisation; • Membership of the League; • Its powers • Early successes; • Failure in the 1930s

Conflict and Tension 1919 - Origins and outbreak of Practice using examination 1939 World War II paper questions One examination paper • Development of tension – Saar, Anglo-German Naval Agreement Escalation of tension • Occupation of the Rhineland; • The Axis and AntiComintern Pact; • Anschluss; • The Sudetenland Crisis; • Appeasement and Munich;

The outbreak of war • Czechoslovakia; • Nazi-Soviet Pact; • Invasion of Poland

Year 10 2015 - 2016 Term 1

Unit Elizabethan England

Topics Part one: Elizabeth's court and Parliament • Elizabeth I and her court: background and character of Elizabeth I; court life, including patronage; key ministers.

Assessment Practice using examination paper questions

Term 2

Elizabethan England

• The difficulties of a female ruler: relations with Parliament; the problem of marriage and the succession; the strength of Elizabeth’s authority at the end of her reign, including Essex’s rebellion in 1601.

Part two: Life in Elizabethan times • A ‘Golden Age’: living standards and fashions; growing prosperity and the rise of the gentry; the Elizabethan theatre and its achievements; attitudes to the theatre.

• The poor: reasons for the increase in poverty; attitudes and responses to poverty; the reasons for government action and the seriousness of the problem.

• English sailors: Hawkins and Drake; circumnavigation 1577– 1580, voyages and trade; the role of Raleigh.

Part three: Troubles at Practice using examination home and abroad paper questions

One examination paper • Religious matters: the question of religion, English Catholicism and Protestantism; the Northern Rebellion; Elizabeth's excommunication; the missionaries; Catholic plots and the threat to the Elizabethan settlement; the nature and ideas of the Puritans and Puritanism; Elizabeth and her government's responses and policies towards religious matters.

• Mary Queen of Scots: background; Elizabeth and Parliament’s treatment of Mary; the challenge posed

by Mary; plots; execution and its impact.

Health and the people

• Conflict with Spain: reasons; events; naval warfare, including tactics and technology; the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Part four: The historic environment of Elizabethan England The study of the historic environment will focus on a particular site in its historical context and should examine the relationship between a specific place and associated historical events and developments.

Students should be able to identify key features of the specified site and understand their connection to the wider historical context of the specific historical period.

Sites will also illuminate how people lived at the time, how they were governed and their beliefs and values.

Part one: Medicine stands still • Medieval medicine: approaches including natural, supernatural, ideas of Hippocratic and Galenic methods and treatments; the medieval doctor; training, beliefs about cause of illness.

• Medical progress: the contribution of Christianity to medical progress and treatment; hospitals; the nature and importance of Islamic medicine and surgery; surgery in medieval times, ideas and techniques.

• Public health in the Middle Ages: towns and monasteries; the Black Death in Britain, beliefs about its causes, treatment and prevention.

Term 4

Health and the people

Part two: The beginnings of change •The impact of the Renaissance on Britain: challenge to medical authority in anatomy, physiology and surgery; the work of Vesalius, Paré, William Harvey; opposition to change.

• Dealing with disease: traditional and new methods of treatments; quackery; methods of treating disease; plague; the growth of hospitals; changes to the training and status of surgeons and physicians; the work of John Hunter.

• Prevention of disease: inoculation; Edward Jenner, vaccination and opposition to change.

Part three: A revolution in Practice using examination medicine paper questions •The development of Germ One examination paper Theory and its impact on the treatment of disease in Britain: the importance of Pasteur, Robert Koch and microbe hunting; Pasteur and vaccination; Paul Ehrlich and magic bullets; everyday medical treatments and remedies.

• A revolution in surgery: anaesthetics, including Simpson and chloroform; antiseptics, including Lister and carbolic acid; surgical procedures; aseptic surgery.

• Improvements in public health: public health problems in industrial Britain; cholera epidemics; the role of public health reformers; local and national government involvement in public health improvement, including the 1848 and 1875 Public Health Acts.

Part four: Modern medicine

• Modern treatment of disease: the development of the pharmaceutical industry; penicillin, its discovery by Fleming, its development; new diseases and treatments, antibiotic resistance; alternative treatments.

• The impact of war and technology on surgery: plastic surgery; blood transfusions; X-rays; transplant surgery; modern surgical methods, including lasers, radiation therapy and keyhole surgery.

• Modern public health: the importance of Booth, Rowntree, and the Boer War; the Liberal social reforms; the impact of two world wars on public health, poverty and housing; the Beveridge Report and the Welfare State; creation and development of the National Health Service; costs, choices and the issues of healthcare in the 21st century.

Year 11 2016-17 Term 1

Unit Controlled Assessment: Vietnam 1960 – 1975

Preparation for practice examination

International Relations: The Era of the Cold War 1943 - 1991

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Topics All three questions attempted

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Practice examination

Development of the Cold War • Conferences 1943 – 45; • The Iron Curtain; • The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan; • The Berlin Blockade and Airlift

Assessment Controlled assessment 1 practice examination Practice using examination paper questions

NATO; Divided Germany; The Hungarian Uprising Three Cold War Crises • Berlin; • Cuba; • Czechoslovakia • The End of the Cold War – • Détente; • Afghanistan; • Star Wars; • Gorbachev’s reforms; • Helsinki; • Collapse of Communism in 1989; • The end of the Soviet Union

• Preparation for Paper 1 – The Era of the Cold War • Preparation for Paper 2 – Germany 1918 – 1939 • Preparation for Paper 3 – War and Transformation of British Society 1903 - 1928

• Preparation for Paper 1, 2 and 3 as above • • •

Term 2

International Relations: The Era of the Cold War 1943 – 1991

Revision

Term 3

Revision

2 practice examinations Practice using examination paper questions

Practice using examination paper questions GCSE papers 1, 2 and 3