History

Year 9 learners will follow the recently revised national curriculum for History.

Learners will study three main themes, which will run across year 8 and 9 with different topics.

Power & Democracy:

• Review monarchy → change to politicians

• Peaceful protest → violent campaign?

• Levellers/Peterloo/Chartists/ Suffragettes

• Modern Britain

• Civil Rights in USA

Conflict & Cooperation:

• Causes of WWII (role of League of Nations)

• Military front

• Home front

• Holocaust

• UN/Rwanda

• ‘War on terror’

Persecution:

• Review/British Empire

• The Slave Trade

• Apartheid in South Africa

Power & Democracy:

• How did power shift in Britain?

• Peaceful protest or violent campaign? Winning the vote in Britain?

• How does all this work in modern Britain?

• What was the civil rights movement in the USA?

• Why is democracy important?

• How did the power shift from the monarch to the politician in Britain?

• Why does this matter to us?

Conflict & Cooperation:

• Why could war not be prevented in 1939?

• Did life at the military front change?

• What impact did the war leave at home?

• How could the holocaust have happened?

• The UN: conflict or cooperation? The UN and Rwanda

• How has modern warfare changed?

Persecution:

• Why do we have to be careful when telling the story of the British Empire?

• How did the slave trade work?

• So what made Clarkson so angry?

• How should the story of abolition be told?

• Did the persecution of black Africans stop in 1833?

• How significant is apartheid in the story of persecution?

Homework is set once per fortnight.