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This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science).

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Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract.

The extracts are as follows:

Year 7:

  1. Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article)
  2. Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
  3. Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article)
  4. Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons
  5. Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article)
  6. Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel

Year 8:

  1. Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn
  2. Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article)
  3. Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday
  4. Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy
  5. Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions
  6. Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis,

Year 9:

  1. Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland
  2. Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators
  3. Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron
  4. Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan
  5. Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition
  6. Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought.

KS4:

  1. Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich
  2. Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War
  3. Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
  4. Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam
  5. Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin.
  6. Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs

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