<p>Suitable for Edexcel</p>
<ol>
<li>The US constitution</li>
<li>Congress</li>
<li>The Presidency</li>
<li>The US Supreme Court</li>
<li>Civil Rights</li>
<li>US Elections</li>
<li>US Parties</li>
<li>US Interest Groups</li>
</ol>
<p>Each PPT has 10 or so slides explaining the key content.</p>
<p>Suitable for Edexcel</p>
<ol>
<li>Development of the UK Constitution</li>
<li>Devolution</li>
<li>Workings of Parliament</li>
<li>Parliament and Government</li>
<li>Structure of the executive</li>
<li>The prime minister</li>
<li>The cabinet</li>
<li>The supreme court</li>
<li>The EU</li>
</ol>
<p>Each PPT has 10 or so slides explaining the key content.</p>
<p>A set of 11 short story starters on popular KS3 topics - Battle of Hastings, Norman Life, King John, the Black Death, Living Conditions in 19C cities, Slavery, English Civil War, Trench Life, Wall Street Crash and Holocaust.</p>
<p>Rationale:</p>
<p>Pupils need to read, read and read some more if they are to have success in our subject. I have written below some starter texts to draw pupils in to new topics. I have tried to harness the power of stories here by giving us something of a ‘hook’ to start discussion of a new topic by way of stimulus material.<br />
Of course you can read texts that are factual, and historical sources too.<br />
A few suggestions as to their usage:</p>
<ul>
<li>End lessons on a cliff-hanger</li>
<li>Annotate texts before whole class reading to pick up comprehension issues</li>
<li>Read to the class with drama and verve (channel that inner Sir Ian McKellen)</li>
<li>Consider getting pupils to draw images as they listen to the narrative, or simply practise listening</li>
<li>Why not speculate orally or on paper about what happens next to assess pupils’ empathy / historical knowledge in extended writing tasks?</li>
</ul>
