How significant was the Hundred Years War? AQA GCSE

How significant was the Hundred Years War?

This lesson is suitable for GCSE students studying the AQA Britain: Migration, empires and the people, c790 to the present day Unit.

Prior learning: students should have completed a lesson on the impact of the Hundred Years War on both Britain and France before moving onto this lesson.

It includes an attractive PowerPoint presentation that includes differentiated lesson objectives and resources.

The main activity uses Partington’s 5 significance criteria to evaluate to what extent the Hundred Years War was a significant historical event. The lesson then explores how to use these ideas to answer an 8 mark significance question ‘Explain the significance of the Hundred Years War’

The PowerPoint includes an example front sheet to support student peer marking, self marking and teachers marking.

The AQA mark scheme can be found here: https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/sample-papers-and-mark-schemes/2018/june/AQA-81452AC-W-MS-JUN18.PDF

Duration: 1 lesson (that can be extended if students are writing and peer marking answers in class)

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