Power & The People: Simon de Montfort & Henry III

AQA GCSE history lesson for The Power & The People Thematic Unit. In this lesson we look at what the relationship between Simon de Montfort and Henry III, including Henry’s actions to upset the barons.

We start with a perfect paragraph quiz. In the paragraph are a number of errors in spelling, specific facts, syntax and context. It is a from of retrieval practice but meant to spark debate about how to improve writing as well.

We begin by looking at the Angevin family tree and Henry III’s accession to the throne. The first activity is a character profile of Simon de Montfort, the pupils use an information slide to make notes on potential strengths, weaknesses and background information and sum him up in 5 words. We then move onto Henry III’s actions to anger his barons. The pupils will have a table with the actions detailed, they will then rate the actions using a “How angry were the barons?” emoji scale. They will then use this information to write a letter to Henry detailing their concern as a baron about Henry’s conduct. they will establish which of Henry’s actions are the most troublesome to them. We finish with a summarising pyramid plenary.

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