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Half Term 1 Half Term 2 Half Term 3 Year 9 September - October October - December January – February Political Systems – Democracy and Topic: Germany 1890-1945 Topic: Germany 1890-1945 Dictatorship PART 1: Germany and growth of PART 1: Germany and growth of Capitalism and Communism-Right and Democracy Democracy Left Wing 1 - Kaiser Wilhelm II and the difficulties of 3 – Weimar Democracy Civil Rights in democracies and ruling Germany  Murders and uprisings dictatorships  What was Germany like before  Hitler and the Munich Putsch •The case of Emmett Till in 1950s USA WWI?  To what extent did the Weimar •The case of Lidici in Nazi Occupied 2 – Impact of the First World War Republic recover after 1923? Czechoslovakia  Germany and WWI  Germany’s Golden Age •Comparing the cases of Emmett Till and  What was the Weimar Republic? Lidici  Why did Germans hate the Treaty of •Living graph – What happened to the Versailles? Besser family in Germany from 1919 to  1923 – The Weimar Republic in 1943? Trouble

Vocabulary Links Democracy, Dictatorship, Capitalism, Kaiser, Militarism, Prussia, Bundesrat, Putsch, Red Rising, Free Corps, Nazi Party, Communism, Socialism, Nationalism, Chancellor, Reichstag, Industrialisation, NSDAP, Swastika, Stormtroopers, SA, Left-Wing, Right-Wing, Civil Rights, Trade Union, Social Democratic Party, Munich Putsch, German Workers Party, Mein Human Rights, Nazism, Fascism, Ku Klux Socialism, ‘A Place in the Sun’, Weltpolitik, Kampf (My Struggle), Gustav Stresemann, Klan, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Empire, Revolution, Mutiny, Abdicated, Rentenmark, Ruhr, Dawes Plan, Young Plan, ‘November Criminals’, Armistice, League of Nations, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Democratic Republic, Weimar Republic, Culture, Avant-Garde, Bauhaus Spartacus League, Communism, Free Corps (Freikorps), Left-Wing, Right Wing, Constitution, Proportional Representation, Chancellor, President, Reichstag, Electorate, Article 48, Reparations, Diktat, Hyperinflation, Passive Resistance, Ruhr, Invasion National All of the lessons in this half term are not AO Coverage: AO1 Knowledge and AO1 - Knowledge and understanding of key Curriculum/ part of the GCSE. This half term is an understanding of key features and features and characteristics of the period. Assessment extension of KS3 and pupils address characteristics of the period AO2 – Explain and analyse historical events Objectives important concepts and apply them in and periods using 2nd order concepts. various case studies.

Half Term 4 Half Term 5 Half Term 6 Year 9 February – March April - May June - July Topic: Germany 1890-1945 Topic: Germany 1890-1945 Topic: Germany 1890-1945 PART 2: Germany and the Depression PART 3 – The Experience of Germans PART 3 – The Experience of Germans 4 – The Depression and the Rise of the under the Nazis under the Nazis Nazis 7 – Economic Changes 9 – Control and Resistance  How did the Depression affect  ‘Work and Bread’  Fear and Terror – repression and the Germany?  Did Hitler make Germany ‘self- police state  The Growth of the Nazi Party sufficient’?  ‘Winning people over’  Who Voted for the Nazis?  Were ordinary Germans better off  How were the arts and culture 5 – The Failure of Weimar Democracy under the Nazis? affected by Nazi rule?  How did Hitler become  The Impact of War – WW2  Resistance and Opposition to Hitler Chancellor? 8 – Social Policy and Practice 6 – The Establishment of Hitler’s  How did the Nazis change the lives Dictatorship. of young people?  How did Hitler begin to eliminate  Women in Nazi Germany. opposition?  Christianity and the Nazis.  The Night of the Long Knives  Who was on Hitler’s hate list?  The Journey to the Final Solution Vocabulary Links Depression, Wall Street Crash, Rearmament, Conscription, National Police State, SS, Gestapo, Concentration Radical, SA, Propaganda, Extreme, Labour Service (RAD), Self – Camps, Propaganda, Censorship, 1936 Rallies, Coalition, Proportional Sufficiency, Autarky, Four Year Plan, Berlin Olympics, Passive Resistance, Representation, Chancellor, German Labour Front (DAF), Beauty of White Rose Group, Assassinate, Kreisau President, Article 48, Reichstag, Labour (SDA), Strength Through Joy Circle, July Bomb Plot, Claus von Marinus Van der Lubbe, Hindenburg, (KDF), Volkswagen, Rationing, Total Staffenberg Enabling Act, Gestapo, Concentration War, Refugees, Indoctrinate, Eugenics, Camp, Trade Unions, One Party Hitler Youth, League of German State, Dictatorship, Night of the Long Maidens, Swing Youth, Edelweiss Kniver, Der Fuhrer, Schutzstaffel (SS), Pirates, 3 Ks (Kinder, Kirche, Kuche), Police State Lebensborn, Euthanasia, Confessional Church, German Christians, Persecute, Aryan, Master Race, Death Camp, Ghetto, Nuremberg Laws, Kritallnacht, Final Solution, anti-Semitism, Einsatzgruppen National AO1 Knowledge and understanding of AO4 – How and why interpretations differ AO1 - Knowledge and understanding of key Curriculum/ key features and characteristics of the and what makes interpretations convincing features and characteristics of the period. Assessment period. AO2 – Explain and analyse historical events AO2 – Explain and analyse historical events Objectives AO4 – How and why interpretations differ and periods using 2nd order concepts. and periods using 2nd order concepts. and what makes interpretations AO4 – How and why interpretations differ and convincing what makes interpretations convincing

Half Term 1 Half Term 2 Half Term 3 Year 10 September - October October - December January - February Topic: Conflict and Tension 1918- Topic: Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 Topic: Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 1939 PART 2: League of Nations PART 3: Origins and Outbreak of WWII PART 1: Peacemaking after WWI 4 – The League of Nations 7 – The development of tension. 1 – The armistice: aims of the  Why was the League of Nations  What did Hitler want? peacemakers created?  How did other countries react to  The aims of Clemenceau, Wilson  The Structure of the League. Hitler’s foreign policies? and Lloyd George  Did the League of Nations help  German rearmament and the road to  Why were the Big Three willing to people? war. compromise when they  How successful was the League in the 8 – The escalation of tension. disagreed so much? 1920s?  The reoccupation of the Rhineland. 2 – The Versailles Settlement 5 – Diplomacy outside the League.  Which countries supported Hitler?  What were the terms of the  How did international agreements  Anschluss with Austria – 1938. Treaty of Versailles? help the League of Nations?  How did people react to Anschluss?  What was the reaction to the 6 – The Collapse of the League  What was the Sudeten Crisis? Treaty of Versailles?  The decline of international  Why was Chamberlain so hopeful of 3 – Impact of the treaty and the wider cooperation in the 1930s. ‘peace in our time’? settlement  The Manchuria Crisis.  How did Britain and France react to  How satisfied were the Allies with  How did the League react to the Hitler’s actions? the Treaty of Versailles? Manchuria Crisis?  Was appeasement a good idea?  The German reaction to the  Why did Italy invade Abyssinia? 9 – The outbreak of war. Treaty of Versailles.  How did the League respond to the  The Nazi-Soviet Pact  How fair was the Treaty of Abyssinian Crisis?  The invasion of Poland and the Versailles and the wider  Why was the League of Nations declaration of war. settlement? destined to fail?  Why did the Second World War break  How were Germany’s allies out? treated at the end of the war? Vocabulary Paris Peace Conference, the ‘Big Council, Locarno Treaty, Collective Foreign Policy, Lebensraum, Links Three’, Idealist, League of Nations, Security, Permanent Court of Volkdeutsche, Greater Germany, Self-Determination, Armistice, Treaty, International Justice, Covenant, Moral Rearmament, Luftwaffe, Mein Kampf, Reparations, Rhineland, Allies, Condemnation, Economic Sanctions, Appeasement, Pacifist, Capitalist, The Fourteen Points, Empire, Assembly, Unanimous, Veto, Secretariat, Dollfuss Affair, Saar Plebiscite, Anglo- Communists, Disarmament, Diktat, Civil Service, International Labour German Naval Agreement, Stresa Front, Clause, Demilitarise, Anschluss, Organisation, Slavery, Refugees, Rhineland, Remilitarisation, Pact, Pact of Conscription, Mandates, November Plebiscite, Dictator, Depression, Steel, Fuhrer, Anti-Semitic, Hitler Youth, Criminals, ‘Stabbed in the Back’, Humanitarian, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Anschluss, Sudetenland, Nazi-Soviet Propaganda, Isolationism, Ratify, Manchuria, Manchukuo, Kwantung Army, Pact, Soviet, Democrats, Republicans, Senate, Fascist, Stresa Front, Haile Selassie, Abdicate, Weimar Republic, Weimar Abyssinia, Suez Canal, Hoare-Laval Pact Constitution, Democratic, Hyperinflation, Nazi, USSR, Naval Supremacy AQA AO1 Knowledge and understanding AO1 Knowledge and understanding of AO1 Knowledge and understanding of Assessment of key features and characteristics of key features and characteristics of the key features and characteristics of the Objectives the period. period. period. AO3 – Analysis and evaluation of AO2 – Explain and analyse historical AO2 – Explain and analyse historical sources events and periods using 2nd order events and periods using 2nd order concepts. concepts. AO3 – Analysis and evaluation of sources Half Term 4 Half Term 5 Half Term 6 Year 10 February – March April - May June - July Topic: Norman England 1066-c1100 Topic: Norman England Topic: Norman England PART 1: The Normans; Conquest and PART 2: Life under the Normans PART 3: Norman Church and Monasticism Control 4 – Feudalism and Government 6 – The Church 1 – Causes of the Norman Conquest  How did William use land to help him  How religious were people in Norman  England before 1066 control the country? times?  Who were the Normans?  What does the Domesday Book tell us  How did the Normans influence  The rivals for the throne. about King William’s England? religion in England? 2 – Military Aspects  Who killed William II? 7 - Monasticism  William prepares to invade.  Keeping law and order.  The life of a monk  Harald Hardrada invades. 5 – Economic and Social Changes  Educating England  The Battle of Hastings – Harold v  What did a Norman village look like? William  A peasant’s year. 3 – Establishing and Maintaining Control  How much did towns grow under the  William, King of England Normans?  Rebellions against the Normans  Did the Norman Conquest change  The Harrying of the North everyday life?  Why did Hereward the Wake rebel?

Vocabulary Earl, Exiled, Inheritance, Housecarls, Aristocracy, Feudal System, Patronage, Pilgrim, Holy Land, Abbey, Monastery, Doom Links Allegiance, post obitum (after death), Villein, Administration, Baron, Social Painting, Reform, Clergy, Celibate, Corrupt, novissima verba (heir named on the Hierarchy, Fief, Tenants-in-chief, Scutage, Romanesque, Diocese, Benedictine, Abbot, death bed), Witan, Aethling, sub- Garrison, Geld, Hides, Ploughs, Sheriff, Archbishop, Bishop, Penance, Piety, Prior, regulus (deputy king), Bayeux Honorial Court, Jury, Primogeniture, Last Rites, Excommunicate, Monasticism, Ecclesiastical, Murdrum Fine, Mutilation, Novice, Abbess, Lay brother, Priory, Rhetoric, Tapestry, Mobilise, Coronation, Ordeal, Manor House, Fallow, Serf, Manor, Vernacular Papal Banner, Holy War, Fyrd, Freemen, Demesne, Cruck, Reeve, Bailiff, Mercenary, Thegn, Shield Wall, Scythe, Sickle, Tithe, Burgess, Guild, Infantry, Lance, Cavalry, Gonfanon, Feigned Retreat, Desertion, Fealty, Fortifications, Treasury, Negotiation, Siege, Regent, Harrying, Danelaw, Outlaw, Guerrilla, Fenlands AQA AO1 - Knowledge and understanding of AO1 - Knowledge and understanding of key AO1 - Knowledge and understanding of key Assessment key features and characteristics of the features and characteristics of the period. features and characteristics of the period. Objectives period. A04 – Interpretations – Focus on the extent AO1 - Knowledge and understanding of key AO2 – Explain and analyse historical with students agree with a particular features and characteristics of the period. events and periods using 2nd order statement. A04 – Interpretations – Focus on the extent concepts. with students agree with a particular statement. Half Term 1 Half Term 2 Half Term 3 Year 11 September - October October - December January - February Topic: Power and the People Topic: Power and the People Topic: Power and the People PART 1: Challenging authority and PART 3: Reform and Reformers PART 4: Equality and Rights Feudalism 7 – The extension of the franchise 10 – Women’s rights and the campaign for the 1 – Constraints on kingship  Give us the vote vote  What did people want from the  What was the impact of Chartism?  Where was a woman’s place? Medieval King John? 8 – Protest and change  What was the impact of the campaign  What was Magna Carta?  The Anti-Corn Law League for women’s suffrage?  The impact of the Magna Carta.  What was the impact of the anti- 11 – Workers’ Rights 2 – The origins of parliament slavery movement?  The General Strike, 1926.  Simon de Montfort and King  Factory and social reform  Trade Union Reform after WWII Henry III 9 – Workers’ movements 12 – Minority Rights  The Provisions of Oxford and the  The development of trade unionism  Was the ‘mother country’ a good Second Barons’ War  The Tolpuddle Martyrs mum?  The king and a new parliament  New Unionism: how successful were  Did the government make life worse 3 – Medieval revolt and royal authority working class unions? for immigrants?  Were rats to blame for the  Protest, riots and reform: how did the Peasants’ Revolt? people react?  The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381  The impact of the Peasants’ Revolt PART 2: Challenging royal authority 4 – Popular uprisings against the crown  How did Henry VIII change the Church?  The Pilgrimage of Grace  Impact of the rebellion 5 – Divine right and parliamentary authority  The causes of the English Revolution  The English Civil War and the role of the New Model Army  Were the English right to kill their king?  How should Oliver Cromwell be remembered? 6 – Royal authority and the right to representation  What were the main causes and events of the American Revolution?  What was the impact of the American Revolution?

Vocabulary Crusade, Baron, Feudal System, Knight, Ballot, Massacre, Tory, Whig, Petition, Great Liberal, National Union of Women’s Suffrage Links Mass, Scutage, Occupy, Civil War, Reform Act, Chartist Movement, General Societies, Suffragists, Women’s Social and Freeman, Inherit, Merchant, Peasant, Strike, Depression, Poor Law, Regulate, Political Union, Suffragettes, Women’s Villein, Siege, Regent, Parliament, Constituencies, Trade Union, Temperance, Freedom League, Martyr, Cat and Mouse Act, Trebuchet, Aristocratic, Steward, Orator, Free Trade, Repeal, Tenant Farmer, Militancy, Nationalise, Privatise, Foreign Democracy, Pious, Chancellor, Burgess, Bill, Abolitionist, Coal seam, Laissez-faire, competition, Re- nationalise, Solidarity, Tenant, Republic, Autocrat, Model Philanthropists, Pacifist, Progressive, Communism, Migration, Segregation, Indian Parliament, Justice of the Peace, Quakers, Guild, Picket, Strike action, subcontinent, Commonwealth, Voluntary Hundred Years War, Poll Tax, Groat, Luddites, Combination Act, Grand National repatriation, Chain migration, Second Pardon, Reformation, Catholic, Pope, Consolidated Trade Union, New Model generation, Recession, Racial profiling, Act of Supremacy, Dissolution of the Unions, Transportation, Militant Racially prejudiced monasteries, Pilgrims, Pilgrimage, Rebellion, Divine Right, Tyranny, Puritan, Laudian, Pamphlet, Star Chamber, Presbyterian, The Short Parliament, The Long Parliament, Cavalry, Infantry, Propaganda, Regicide, Purge, Legislation, Rump Parliament, Lord Protector, Empire, Colony, Colonist, Native American, Congress, Penal colony, Plantation, Indentured servant, Autocratic, AQA AO1 Knowledge and understanding of AO1 Knowledge and understanding of key AO1 Knowledge and understanding of key Assessment key features and characteristics of the features and characteristics of the period. features and characteristics of the period. Objectives period. AO2 – Explain and analyse historical events AO2 – Explain and analyse historical events AO2 – Explain and analyse historical and periods using 2nd order concepts. and periods using 2nd order concepts. events and periods using 2nd order (Explain the significance of… (Explain the significance of… concepts. In what ways were things similar / different? In what ways were things similar / different? (Explain the significance of… Focus on the factors – war, religion, role of Focus on the factors – war, religion, role of In what ways were things similar / individual etc.) individual etc.) different AO4 – Interpretations – To what extent do you agree with the statement? Half Term 4 Half Term 5 Half Term 6 Year 11 February – March April - May June - July Topic: Norman Site Study and Topic: Revision Revision Paper 1 and Paper 2 Site study – The battlefield at Hastings Vocabulary Gonfanon, Feigned Retreat, Links Demoralised, Desertion, Archers, Cavalry, Infantry, Shield Wall, Battle axe, Fealty, Bayeux Tapestry, Propaganda AQA AO1 - Knowledge and understanding of AO1 TO AO4 – Focus on specific questions Assessment key features and characteristics of the Objectives period. AO2 – Explain and analyse historical events and periods using 2nd order concepts. Essay question linked to the specific site