Oliver Cromwell

A full lesson on Cromwell’s actions in Ireland. Through the enquiry of ‘Was Cromwell the ‘Curse of Ireland’? The aim of the lesson is for students to understand what Cromwell did in Ireland and make their own judgement based on two different interpretations of events. Students do this through guided reading and then creating their own vivid account of what happened through a choice of differentiated tasks, including a storyboard, report or diary. Following this students will explain two different interpretations of Cromwell’s actions in Ireland and create their own judgement on how Cromwell should be viewed. The plenary is a review of students’ progress using the lessons keywords to assess learning and literacy.

This lesson is a KS3 lesson with clear objectives, a key enquiry question and differentiated resources, including challenge tasks and scaffolds throughout. All information sheets and resources are included on the slides for a download and go lesson. It downloads in a powerpoint format so can be adapted easily.

This lesson includes:

• A retrieval starter
• Guided reading task to get students to understand the events
• Differentiated tasks to consolidate knowledge of the events as a storyboard, report or diary
• A worksheet to understand the two interpretations of how Cromwell’s actions are viewed in Ireland
• A final written task for students to create their own judgement with a scaffolded structure and challenge task
• A review based plenary using keywords and literacy prompts to measure progress.