Power & The People: The Causes of The Peasants Revolt

AQA GCSE history lesson for The Power & The People Thematic Unit. In this lesson we look at the long and short term causes of The Peasants Revolt.

The starter is a retrieval practice grid that is filled in for the lessons completed so far in the unit. We then begin by looking at the situation before Richard came to the throne and the legacy of The Black Death. The pupils do a character assessment of King Richard II as a key person. We then look at the causes of the Peasants Revolt. The pupils categorise the causes into social, economic and political causes. We then look at which were the long term causes and the short term or trigger events in an iceberg analysis. The longer term causes are written below the water level, the short term more apparent causes in the iceberg above water. We then finish with a post-it note plenary on whether rats were to blame for the revolt or not.

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