KS3 Long Term Overview: Year 7 for 2007-8 Subject: History
Year 7 Autumn Term 2007 Half Term 2 – 18 lessons Them and Us – development study Unit Focus: How has Britain been ruled for the past 2000 years?
Spring Term 2008 Half Term 2 – 18 lessons Moors, Martyrs and Massacres – depth studies Unit Focus: How has religion caused conflict?
1. How did a foreign king invade and conquer England? – Hastings, castles, feudal system
1. Crusades - Christianity vs Islam
2. How has parliament risen in importance? – Magna Carta to Civil Wars
3. Puritans
2. Reformation – Protestants vs Catholics inc Guy Fawkes
Summer Term 2008 Half Term 2 – 18 lessons Plagues, pox and penicillin – development study of Medicine and Health through time Unit Focus: How has our understanding of health improved? 1. Ancient beliefs on health and medicine 2. Medieval health, inc Black Death 3. Modern health inc cholera and the NHS
ICCU: Puritan England
Homework Project - Y7 - Getting Around – Transport Through Time Inland – roads, rail, canals, bridges, International – sailing ships, steam tunnels, cars, trains, motorways, trams, ships, ocean liners, flight, planes, public transport hovercraft, helicopters, jet planes
Space travel – rockets, shuttles, space stations, space tourism
OR – Looking the Part – How clothing, fashion and beauty have changed through time Ancient/Medieval Early-modern and Late-modern Twentieth Century and onwards