Power & The People: Long Term Causes of The English Civil War

AQA GCSE history lesson for The Power & The People thematic unit. In this lesson we look at the longer term causes of the Civil War before the short and long parliaments.

We start with a retrieval practice grid filled in for the P&TP Unit so far. We briefly look at James I and his relationship with Parliament. We have a look at Charles portrait and the pupils try to deduce his personality and beliefs from that, they then fill in a character profile of Charles and note his greatest strengths and weakness. We then look at the role of Parliament in the 17th Century, before looking at Parliaments grievances against Charles. The pupils complete a thermometer analysis to work out which of Charles’ actions made parliament the most angry. We then look at William Laud and his changes before completing a source question with guidance. The pupils finally complete an extentometer exercise to debate how much of Parliaments dislike of Charles is about his personality or about his politics or both.

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