Oliver Cromwell: Hero or Villain

A full lesson on whether Cromwell should be considered a Hero or Tyrant. Through the enquiry of ‘Does Cromwell deserve his statue’? The aim of the lesson is for students to understand who Cromell was and to evaluate his actions while Lord Protector. Students do this through a colour coding task and are then asked to build PEE paragraphs using a matching exercise. Following this students will write their own balanced arguement on whether Cromwell should have a statue in London. The plenary asks students to make a judgement on whether Cromwell is a hero or tyrant based on their learning.

This lesson is a KS3 lesson with clear objectives, a key enquiry question and differentiated resources, including challenge tasks and scaffolds throughout. All information sheets and resources are included on the slides for a download and go lesson. It downloads in a powerpoint format so can be adapted easily.

This lesson includes:

• An engaging starter
• Colour coding task to get students to understand Cromwell’s actions
• Differentiated worksheets
• A worksheet to help build PEE paragraphs
• A final written task for students to create their own balanced arguement with a scaffolded structure and challenge task
• A discussion based plenary asking students to make a judgement and defend their position.