I am an experienced History teacher who has created SOW for different schools. I love making different and creative resources and hope you enjoy them too! I will try and update any old resources and you are welcome to recommend any SOW for me to create!
I am an experienced History teacher who has created SOW for different schools. I love making different and creative resources and hope you enjoy them too! I will try and update any old resources and you are welcome to recommend any SOW for me to create!
These outstanding lessons are focused on Key Topic 3 of EDEXCEL GCSE Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 – 1939. The lessons use both the Hodder and Pearsons book and is full of different activities and exam practice. The lessons can be used and adapted for any year group and exam board including AQA, OCR or IGCSE. It has a range of resources and is great for students!
The lessons cover:
Key topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933–39
1 The creation of a dictatorship, 1933–34
● The Reichstag Fire. The Enabling Act and the banning of other
parties and trade unions.
● The threat from Röhm and the SA, the Night of the Long Knives and
the death of von Hindenburg. Hitler becomes Führer, the army and
oath of allegiance.
2 The police state
● The role of the Gestapo, the SS, the SD and concentration camps.
● Nazi control of the legal system, judges and law courts.
● Nazi policies towards the Catholic and Protestant Churches,
including the Reich Church and the Concordat.
3 Controlling and influencing attitudes
● Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda: censorship, Nazi use of
media, rallies and sport, including the Berlin Olympics (1936).
● Nazi control of culture and the arts, including art, architecture,
literature and film.
4 Opposition, resistance and conformity
● The extent of support for the Nazi regime.
● Opposition from the Churches, including the role of Pastor
Niemöller.
● Opposition from the young, including the Swing Youth and the
Edelweiss Pirates.
A lesson on Francis Walsingham (from my wider Early Elizabethan SOW). This is an interactive lesson for students on Walsingham and has a mixture of activities including games, note-taking, videos, stories, exam practice etc.
A set of lessons (1h30 each) focused on the OCR Russia SPEC. The lessons cover Key Topic 1-4 and are embedded with a lot of content revision and exam questions! I taught these lessons whilst students were expected to complete my ‘Russia 1894–1941 Revision Booklet’. Students received high grades for this topic. (Also just a notice, I will be adding my complete and updated russia lessons hopefully in the next few months!)
This is an extremely fun template to use for departments/seasonal lessons/end of year lessons etc! Students absolutely loved this PPT and it can be adapted and changed according to your audience! The PPT plays like a netflix account and has some additional cool features!
This lesson is designed to support students with writing a persuasive non-fiction piece on including more people with disabilities. It looks at both a TED TALK video and a article to help students construct an argument and then present it at the end of the lesson.
A strong and detailed lesson on the Partition of Yugoslavia focusing on: causes, events, consequences (short and long term), and consequences today. The lesson has different activities, differentiated and great discussion points for students!
A fabulous CPD resource covering: the Equality Act, types of discrimination, practical advice, statistics in the UK, case studies and more! Great for both qualified and new teachers! This is a detailed resource with 14 slides and has a lot to cover for staff (and can be adjusted to use in a PSHCE/Citizenship/Sociology lesson)!
A student booklet for OCR Y219 Russia 1894–1941. The booklet includes: past exam questions, pages for students to complete their own revision notes on each topic, model answers/ structures, fact tests and a glossary.
These outstanding lessons are focused on Key Topic 1 of EDEXCEL GCSE Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 – 1939. The lessons use both the Hodder and Pearsons book and is full of different activities and exam practice. The lessons can be used and adapted for any year group and exam board including AQA, OCR or IGCSE. Hope these are helpful for your students!
The lessons cover: The setting up of the Weimar Republic; the signing and effects of the Treaty of Versailles and reasons for opposition, weaknesses in the Constitution,the attacks from the Left (the Spartacist uprising)
and the Right (the Kapp Putsch),the French occupation of the Ruhr and the impact of hyperinflation. The economic work of Stresemann (both internal and external policies), Germany’s relations with other countries, exam practice and feedback.
This SOW/ bundle addresses Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88. This is perfect for the EDEXCEL spec but can be used for any other exam board/ series of lessons. It has various activities and exam practice too. The lessons cover:
● Introduction to the course
● Elizabethan England in 1558: society and government.
● The Virgin Queen: the problem of her legitimacy, gender, marriage.
Her character and strengths.
● Challenges at home and from abroad: the French threat, financial
weaknesses.
● Religious divisions in England in 1558.
● Elizabeth’s religious settlement (1559): its features and impact.
● The nature and extent of the Puritan challenge and the nature and extent of the Catholic challenge, including the role
of the nobility, Papacy and foreign powers
● Mary, Queen of Scots: her claim to the English throne, her arrival in
England in 1568.
● Revision and Exam Practice
A series of lessons to support students with their spelling, punctuation, grammar and sentences. The lessons have a variety of tasks including: analytical writing, descriptive writing, fictional writing, independent and pair tasks. The 7 lessons were created for my 1h30 minutes lessons but can easily be split into more lessons. The lessons were designed for KS3 students but have been effective in supporting low-ability KS4 students.
A lesson on Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot. The lesson had a variety of activities with videos, reading comprehension, chronology and narrative tasks and creating a storyboard. This was a lesson given to students on Bonfire Night and students enjoyed it! The tasks in the lesson can be removed for an assembly (and the videos should remain).
A series of lessons to teach the new OCR specification for Russia 1894–1941. The lessons are from the rule of Tsar Nicholas II to the events of 1917.
18 fun and engaging lessons with a model essay template (20 mark question). Each lessons links exactly to the relevant chapter in Access to History: Russia 1894-1941 for OCR. Numerous worksheets, exam practice and powerpoints (with appropriate page numbers to the book).
A free example has been provided.
A complete SOW with detailed lessons to teach Macbeth! These lessons are extremely engaging and support a variety of students with differentiation throughout. The lessons have a variety of activities including: analytical writing, evaluating texts, annotating texts and model paragraphs, group work, storyboards, ordering activities, exam practice, creating profile maps, comprehension, videos and so much more!! The lessons can be used to first teach the topic or for revision lessons. The lessons were designed to be longer than a normal 1 hour lesson so can also be used for double English lessons.
The lessons cover the following:
Macbeth Act 1
Macbeth Act 2
Macbeth Act 3
Macbeth Act 4
Macbeth Act 5
Content Revision
Major Themes
Context
Structure/Language Analysis
Exam Practice
Exam
A full detailed SOW of Charles Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. This SOW compromises of 20 detailed lessons for KS3/4 students. The lessons are fully differentiated and resourced, with a variety of creative, analytical and evaluative activities. The lessons develop students understanding of the novel, support their ability to analyse the text/language, develop vocabulary, support students with SPAG and help them foster an interest in the story!
The lessons focus on:
An Introduction - Source analysis, context, creative writing
Setting
Character Analysis
Comparing Characters
Gothic Features - Ghosts
The First Spirit
The Second Spirit and Context
The Present
The Present p2
The Present p3
The Last Spirit
The Last Spirit p2
The Last Spirit p3
Moral Lesson
Ending
Ending Part 2
Revising Key Characters
Themes and Characters
Language Analysis
Exam Practice
Lesson and resource focused on the Rise of Empires with activities on: A01, vocabulary and language, source analysis, categorising and paragraph practice.
A free resource for students - can be used at the start of the year (for students to get to know each other and work in pairs to answer) or at the end of term.