GCSE Normans Historic Environment 2022 Castle Acre Exam Answer Lesson

New lesson and resource the Castle Acre site for the AQA Normans GCSE 2022.

Lesson recaps on a reason the priories were built - to support the lives of the monks. This was fully covered in previous lessons so this is more of a recap exercise focussed more around the possible question. The lesson then focusses on possible questions (there are three here and I can’t think of what else they could ask, other than variations on a theme!). There is a model answer in the ppt and attached as a word file. This is deliberately longer than students would be expected to write but I’ve tried to show several examples how to answer the question but also to focus on Castle Acre.

There is then an example of how to change the info to fit another question as I have been trying to emphasise the importance of being able to adapt in exams and apply knowledge in different ways.

I taught this yesterday to my fairly low ability Year 11 and it went really well - they engaged with the model answer and seemed to feel reassured as they have been finding the Historic Environment a bit daunting!