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I am a senior leader, and examiner who has years of experience teaching different exam specifications. My classes regularly achieve high levels of progress, in 2022 it was +1.5. Please browse a selection of history, sociology and generic lessons and resources. Most of them have writing frames for students who need support with writing. Please review if you download anything as I will try to edit and improve using any feedback

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I am a senior leader, and examiner who has years of experience teaching different exam specifications. My classes regularly achieve high levels of progress, in 2022 it was +1.5. Please browse a selection of history, sociology and generic lessons and resources. Most of them have writing frames for students who need support with writing. Please review if you download anything as I will try to edit and improve using any feedback
Norman Conquest: How useful is Bayeux Tapestry as a source about the Norman Conquest? (Lesson 4.A)
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Norman Conquest: How useful is Bayeux Tapestry as a source about the Norman Conquest? (Lesson 4.A)

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A year 7 lesson that attempts to build on historical source skills. This lesson works well after a lesson that looks at the tapestry in a bit of detail. Students use information from the previous lesson with the quick recap of the Bayeux Tapestry. Then as a class or as a solo task students go through the nature, origin etc to work out if the source is useful. This culminates into a GCSE styled source question. There is a writing frame to aid with writing. Include an interactive plenary where students vote using the Poll slide as to whether the tapestry is useful or not.
English Civil War: How did the Civil War impact England?
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English Civil War: How did the Civil War impact England?

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This lesson forms a SOW on the English Civil War, there are two lessons on why the Civil war happened and then the other lessons look at the impact. This lesson includes starters with answers, a worksheet with tasks and time lines to build chronological understanding.
AQA America 1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality Part 1
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AQA America 1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality Part 1

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The first 20 lessons of the America topic for AQA for a three year GCSE. Include exam questions, with sentence starters to support the less able and challenge tasks to stretch the top end. A range of recap starters at the beginning of lessons to help students consolidate their understanding Includes lessons on: Introduction to America WW1 And its impact Economic Boom in America Ford and the car industry Failures of the boom Entertainment in 1920s (cinema, sport, jazz) Women and Flappers Causes of Prohibition Failures of Prohibition Al Capone Causes of Immigration Experiences of immigrants Experiences of African Americans Changes after the abolition of slavery Jim Crow Laws KKK Ku Klux Klan Russian Revolution 1920s Red Scare Sacco and Vanzetti
USA: What does the St Valentine's Day Massacre reveal about the impact of prohibition? (L11)
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USA: What does the St Valentine's Day Massacre reveal about the impact of prohibition? (L11)

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A lesson that looks that the impact and failures of prohibition, the St Valentine’s Day massacre is used as a focal point for the investigation. This forms part of a 3 year GCSE scheme of work for AQA America 1920 -1972 Opportunity and Inequality. The lesson includes an GCSE style exam question with sentence starters to help those who need it and challenge tasks throughout to stretch and challenge the top end.
Norman Conquest: How do we know the Bayeux Tapestry supports William? (Lesson 4)
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Norman Conquest: How do we know the Bayeux Tapestry supports William? (Lesson 4)

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This lesson aims to get Year sevens thinking about sources and their provenance. Students use the card sort to work out the story of the bayeux tapestry and to then work out from the source how we know it supports William. The aim of the lesson is to be able to answer a GCSE source question. There is a writing frame included for those who need help with writing.
USA: Abolition to 1920's America (4 lessons)
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USA: Abolition to 1920's America (4 lessons)

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A bundle looking at the experiences of African Americans from Abolition to the 1920’s. Students look at the changes that happened after the abolition of slavery, Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), evaluation of life in 1920’s America. These lessons are designed for AQA America 1920 - 1973 Opportunity and Inequality.
Civil Rights: What does the music of Bob Dylan tell us about the 1950's and Emmett Till?
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Civil Rights: What does the music of Bob Dylan tell us about the 1950's and Emmett Till?

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This lesson looks at what was happening to African Americans in the 1950’s focusing on the murder of Emmett Till. The lesson is based around the song by Bob Dylan. Students learn about the events of the murder and analyse the song lyrics. Students then complete a GCSE styled question. There is a model answer as well as sentence starters. Students are challenged to compare the lives of African American in the 50’s with what they have learn about the 1920’s.
Civil Rights: Recap and Revision of Civil Rights movement
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Civil Rights: Recap and Revision of Civil Rights movement

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A collection of resources to help students revise the Civil Rights movement. There is a timeline to complete which gets students to recap key events that have been looked. Can be used as a homework task as well. Include in timeline are some more obscure events which I set in previous lessons to research. There is a blockbusters themed activity/revision game. This can be played as a teacher vs class activity or printed and laminated to be reused. There is also 30 individualized key word bingo sheets. There is also a GCSE styled interpretation question with sentence starters as well as a describe question with sentence starters and a model paragraph
History of Medicine: Homework or Revision Booklet
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History of Medicine: Homework or Revision Booklet

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A booklet that goes through the key time periods in the study of history of medicine. This can be used as a homework task for students to recap what they have learnt or given out as a revision task. I used this as a starter coming up to exams to get students to focus on their weakest areas. It includes a section for them to recap the key factors needed to explain why medicine improved. There are also boxes to allow students to plan questions.
WW1: How did the First World War affect Women in Britain?
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WW1: How did the First World War affect Women in Britain?

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This lesson looks at the role of women during the war, it looks at how the suffrage movement, middle class and working class women played a role. This lesson includes a GCSE styled question, with sentence starters and a model answer. There is also a chance for group work or solo work and lots of discussion.
AQA America 1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality Part 2
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AQA America 1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality Part 2

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14 lessons and a revision activity booklet for the second part of the SOW for AQA America 1920 - 1973 Opportunity and Inequality for a three year GCSE. Lessons range from the Depression, New Deal and Popular Culture. Include exam questions, with sentence starters to support the less able and challenge tasks to stretch the top end. A range of recap starters at the beginning of lessons to help students consolidate their understanding Includes lessons on: The Wall Street Crash 1929 The impact of the Great Depression Hoover and his response to the Great Depression Bonus Army/ Bonus March 1932 Why did Roosevelt / FDR win the Election 1932? Popular Culture in the 1930s The impact of world war 2 on society (Women and African Americans) The impact of Second World War (WW2) on the economy The New Deal Opposition to the New Deal Supreme Court and the New Deal TVA evaluation Flint Sit Down Strike and Battle of the Overpass
AQA America 1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality  Part 3
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AQA America 1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality Part 3

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10 lessons and a revision info checkers for the third part of the SOW for AQA America 1920 - 1973 Opportunity and Inequality for a three year GCSE. Include exam questions, with sentence starters to support the less able and challenge tasks to stretch the top end. A range of recap starters at the beginning of lessons to help students consolidate their understanding Includes lessons on: 1950s America Prosperity McCarthyism, Second Red Scare and Joseph McCarthy Brown vs Board of Education Little Rock Nine Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott Non - Violent Protest Black Power Emmett Till Civil Rights Act New Frontier and Great Society Women’s Liberation and Feminism
USA: The Wall Street Crash, What happened to the stock market in 1920s America? (L21)
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USA: The Wall Street Crash, What happened to the stock market in 1920s America? (L21)

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A lesson that looks at the causes of the Wall Street Crash and its effects, this lesson forms part of a SOW for AQA America 1920 - 1973 Opportunity and Inequality. There is a role play activity to get students to understand the stock market, there is also a GCSE question with sentence starters to help those who need it as well as challenge tasks to stretch and challenge students.
AQA Health and the People SOW
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AQA Health and the People SOW

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The first 7 lessons and revisions materials for a scheme of work for AQA Health and the people. Lessons include challenge tasks and writing frames for students who need support. Lessons include: Medieval beliefs and treatments Christianity and Hospitals medieval medicine Islamic medicine in the Middle Ages Surgery in the Middle Ages What was public health like in the Middles Ages? Was public health better in the towns or Monastries? What was the Black death and its impact? Why/How did medicine progress in the Middle Ages?
WW1: How did World War One change and improve medicine? (Lesson 8)
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WW1: How did World War One change and improve medicine? (Lesson 8)

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This lesson looks at the changes occurring in medicine. It looks at the work of Harold Gillies in Reconstructive surgery, as well as Blood Transfusions, Hospital Treatment and injured limbs treatment. Lesson includes solo and group work There is a GCSE style describe question with sentence starters and challenge tasks to stretch the high ability students in a class.
Conflict and Tension in Asia: Vietnam War Bundle
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Conflict and Tension in Asia: Vietnam War Bundle

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The first 7 lessons of AQA Conflict and Tension Tension in Asia for the Vietnam section. Includes a range of activities and tasks in lessons with GCSE questions with sentence starters and challenge tasks. Plus a set of 3 knowledge organisers.
Titanic: What can the Titanic reveal about life in Edwardian England? (Lesson 1)
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Titanic: What can the Titanic reveal about life in Edwardian England? (Lesson 1)

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This lesson approaches the Titanic from a different angle looking at what the titanic reveals about the Edwardian period. Students look at a range of sources from pictures, menus, etc to back up points about the Edwardian. There is a worksheet, GCSE styled question, with sentence starters and a model answer. Students also have a literacy focus where they need to correct mistakes to the model answer. The homework tasks involve students getting given a passenger to investigate. Students loved this as each student got a unique passenger with their own boarding pass which they fed back their findings to in the next lesson.
Tudors: Religious Roller-coaster Homework/Recap Task
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Tudors: Religious Roller-coaster Homework/Recap Task

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A task for a homework or recap of the topic of religious change, students use the info to look at how much religion changed under different monarchs. Either use the graph or on a piece of blank paper use the info sheets to plot how much religious changed.
WW1: Revision Clock
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WW1: Revision Clock

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A good activity to get students to recap their topic. Give students 10 minutes per section first 5 they write down everything they can remember, 2 minutes to share with partner and 3 to check their books. They repeat this for all the sections.