HISTORY SUPER-CURRICULUM
A-Level – RUSSIA: Revolution & Dictatorship
(G) (G) (C) Russian Revolution, A People’s Lenin, Robert Service Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Tragedy, Orlando Figes (G) Montefiore (G) Stalin, Robert Service (G) The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Revolutionary Russia, 1891- (C) Sebag Montefiore 1991: A Pelican Introduction, Trotsky, Robert Service Orlando Figes
(C) (C) (C) The Last Days of the Tsar, Robert Stalin, Thames TV documentary The Siege, Helen Dunmore Service 1990 on youtube: (G) Revolutionary (C) Lenin The Dictator, Victor Dictator The Betrayal, Helen Dunmore Sebestyan Despot (S) Write a book review.
(S) (U) (G) Design your own Stalinist socialist Write your own play on Stalin’s Gulag, Anne Applebaum realist propaganda Rise to Power or the October (G) Revolution The Great Terror, A reassessment, Robert Conquest (U) Build a chronological display of the events of Stalin’s Rise to Power
(C) (S) BBC podcast on Lenin’s rise to Build a creative representation of (G) power on BBC iplayer Marxist theory. Ten Days that Shook the World, John Reed (an eye witness account) (G) A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, A. Solzhenitsyn
(C) (C) (G) Death of Stalin (a comedy), 2017 The Road of Bones, Anne Fine And Quiet Flows the Don, (C) Mikhail Sholokov Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak (G) Virgin Soil Upturned, Sholokov
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HISTORY SUPER-CURRICULUM A-Level – Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy (1603-1702)
(G) (C) (G) Read A Monarchy Transformed –Mark Read any of the following short books Kishlansky. from the Penguin Monarchs series: Read Rebellion, A History of England from James I James I to the Glorious Revolution Charles I Charles II – by Peter Ackroyd James II William III and Mary II (C) (C) (C) Watch The Last Days of Charles I Watch any episode of The Stuarts, A Watch any of the Stuart Britain documentary on YouTube. Bloody Reign on the UKTV App. episodes of David Starkey’s Monarchy
(Can be found on YouTube – episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wCCMd-6T1Y Start with James I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQFmWStPHPo 10-13)
(C) Listen to an episode of the podcast (C) (G) “The Rex Factor” about any of the Stuart Listen to the Dan Snow Podcast from Listen to the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time monarchs or Cromwell! Start with James I! the History Hit series – “Charles I podcast about the Divine Right of
You can find this podcast on all smartphone Reconsidered”. Kings: podcast apps! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0080xph
(S) Create a propaganda Pamphlet (front cover) including a cartoon and a Explore this playlist of videos about the (C) title, based on any of the following English Civil War period! Watch the following documentary about ideas: the Gunpowder Plot, during the reign of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BuWiwp • The coronation of James I of Scotland h1xk&list=PLSegY__gUYIddQBvXm3r4Squ6HcBg James I: 1FIf (pro or anti James!) • A Parliamentarian pamphlet critisizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StwIeUnz0FQ the actions of Charles I during Personal Rule. • A Royalist pamphlet supporting the idea of the Divine Right of Kings.
(S) (S) (U) Create a starter activity for the Write a speech to be read out in Write a Stuart newspaper report about rest of the class to use,e.g. Parliament either criticizing or any of the following: defending the actions of any Stuart • A true or false quiz monarch – make it persuasive! • Execution of Charles I • A multiple choice quiz • James I’s accession to the • A “Choose the best answer” throne/Death of Elizabeth. quiz • The outbreak of Civil War after • A revision crossword Personal Rule.
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