English Civil War (unit of work)

This is a source-based SoW that focuses on the causes and course of the English Civil War. The SoW is broken into ten lessons:

1. Gunpowder Plot
2. Primary source 1
3. Charles I and Parliament
4. Primary source 2
5. Start of the English Civil War
6. Causes of the English Civil War
7. Events of the English Civil War
8. Execution of Charles I
9. Primary source 3
10. Assessment (source based assessment.

Where there is reading to complete (lessons 1, 3, 5, 7, 8) there is a choice of reading age of 12 or 10. The reading age has been determined using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test* and all reading comes with five comprehension questions that can be self-assessed.

There are opportunities for pupils to peer assess their own PEE paragraphs using the success criteria provided.

This unit of work includes:
• Ten lessons. Five of these lessons have a comprehension-based reading activity targeted at reading age 12 or ten, depending upon the ability of the group.
• All lessons have blooms related to learning objectives.
• A SoW that links learning activities to the learning objectives. There is also an intention statement.
• A knowledge organiser that is editable.
• While the assessment lesson is a source based it can easily be edited into causation.

• The Flesch-Kincaid reading method is a readability test designed to assess the complexity of written text. It was developed by Rudolf Flesch and J. Peter Kincaid in 1975 and has since become one of the most widely used methods to determine the readability of texts in English.The Flesch-Kincaid reading method calculates the reading ease and grade level of a piece of writing based on two primary factors: average sentence length and average number of syllables per word