Course Title: Gcse History

COURSE TITLE: GCSE HISTORY

ASSESSMENT DETAILS EXAM BOARD: AQA EXAM LEVEL: Full Course ASSESSMENT: Paper 1 Understanding the Modern World (1 hour 45 minutes) 50%. Paper 2 Shaping the Nation (1 hour 45 minutes) 50%.

Paper 1 - Understanding the modern world Section A: 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship in Germany This period study focuses on the development of Germany during a turbulent half century of change. It was a period of democracy and dictatorship – the development and collapse of democracy and the rise and fall of Nazism. Key topics: Germany under the Kaiser Weimar Germany Nazi Germany Section B: Conflict and tension, 1918–1939 This wider world depth study enables students to understand the diverse interests of different individuals and states including the Great Powers. Key topics: Treaty of Versailles League of Nations The origins of the Second World War Paper 2 - Shaping the nation Section A: Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day This thematic study will enable students to gain an understanding of how medicine and public health developed in Britain over a long period of time. Students will study the importance of the following factors: • War • Superstition and religion • Chance • Government • Communication • Science and technology • The role of the individual in encouraging or inhibiting change. Key topics: Medieval medicine and health, e.g. the Black Death Revolutions in medicine and surgery, e.g. impact of WW1 Section B: Norman England, 1066–1100 This option allows students to study in depth the arrival of the Normans and the establishment of their rule. The depth study will focus on major aspects of Norman rule, considered from economic, religious, political, social and cultural standpoints of this period and arising contemporary and historical controversies. Key topics: The Norman Conquest, e.g. the Battle of Hastings Life under the Normans, e.g. castles.

1 Suggested reading –

Year 7 & 8 - Goodnight Mr Tom / Michelle Magorian (WWII) Kiss the Dust / Elizabeth Laird (Kurdish refugees) The Ruby in the Smoke / Philip Pullman (first of the Sally Lockhart trilogy set in Victorian London) Sweet Clarinet etc. / James Riordan (WWII) The Silver Sword / Ian Serraillier Carrie’s War / Nina Bawden I Coriander / Sally Gardner Private Peaceful / Michael Morpurgo

Years’ 9-11 - Beevor, A, D-Day, Berlin and Stalingrad. Calder, A, The People’s War, Britain 1939-1945. Hastings, M, All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945. Reid, A, Leningrad – Tragedy of A City Under Siege, 1941-44. Roberts, A, The Storm of War. Taylor, AJP, The Origins of the Second World War. Wint, G, Clavocoressi, P., and Pritchard, J., The Penguin History of the Second World War.

Course Title - A Level History

History at Painsley VI Form follows the AQA syllabus, all components for which are assessed at the end of Year 13. Students sit 2 exams at the end of the course and submit one piece of coursework of approximately 3,500 words.

The specification requires student to study:

The history of more than one country or state or the history of more than one period

Aspects of the past in breadth, through period(s) or theme(s), and in-depth

Significant individuals, societies, events, developments and issues within a broad historical context

Developments affecting different groups within the societies studied

A range of appropriate historical perspectives, for example: aesthetic; cultural; economic; ethnic; political; religious; scientific; social or technological.

The units under study are – The Tudors: England 1485-1603

This option allows students to study in breadth issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence in this period through the following key questions:  How effectively did the Tudors restore and develop the powers of the monarchy?  In what ways and how effectively was England governed during this period?  How did relations with foreign powers change and how was the succession secured?  How did English society and economy change and with what effects?  How far did intellectual and religious ideas change and develop and with what effects?  How important was the role of key individuals and groups and how were they affected by developments?

2 Suggested reading –

 D Murphy (ed), England 1485-1603, Collins, 1999  N Fellows, Disorder and Rebellion in Tudor England, Hodder, 2009  R Lockyer & D O’Sullivan, Tudor Britain 1485-1603, Longman, 1993  K Randall, Henry VIII and the Government of England, Hodder, 2001  K Randall, Henry VIII and the Reformation in England, Hodder, 2001  J Warren, Elizabeth I: Meeting the Challenge, Hodder, 2008

Russia 1917-1953: Revolution and Dictatorship

This option provides for the study in depth of the coming and practice of communism in Russia. It explores concepts such as Marxism, communism, Leninism, and Stalinism, ideological control and dictatorship. It also enables students to consider issues of political authority, the power of individuals and the inter-relationship of governmental and economic and social change.

The following key areas are examined –

 The 1917 Russian Revolution and dissent  Bolshevik consolidation, 1918-24  The rise of Stalin, 1924-29  Stalin’s rule, 1929-53. Economy and society up to 1941  Stalinism, politics and control, 1929-1941  The Great Patriotic War and Stalin’s Dictatorship, 1941-1953.