English Civil war - Why a civil war? (Who fought for whom?)

Second lesson in the English Civil War SoW

This lesson defines what a civil war is, introduces the two sides of the war, the leaders, who makes up each side, why they chose that side, and what they looked like.

Challenges conceptions such as the idea that all of Parliament supported the parliamentarians, and that the aim of the war was to get rid of the King.

A task prompting students to make two recruitment posters leads them towards looking at exactly what each side disliked about the other, and where the specific conflict points were.

Ends with a class source analysis.