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History at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 8: The civil wars was England 'turned upside down' in the seventeenth century?
Section 9: Was 'the world turned upside down'?

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Objectives

Children should learn:
  • to begin to evaluate the extent of the changes that occurred during the civil wars and Commonwealth period
  • to make links between the changes and different political and religious ideas

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Give pupils a range of sources that describe aspects of life in England during the reign of Charles I and up to the Restoration. Using these sources and their own knowledge of the period, they construct a timeline which highlights the key political and religious changes, the episodes of peace and war, and the conflict of radical and conservative ideas.
  • Pupils use the timeline to make substantiated judgements about the episodes of greatest change during the period, and about the extent to which England had changed by the time of the Restoration.
  • produce a structured explanation of some of the key changes of the period
  • make links between various factors to determine the extent of these changes

Points to note

  • Citizenship: activity has strong connections with legal and human rights and the key characteristics of parliamentary and other forms of government.

Sections in this unit

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1. Why was 1649 a year of reckoning?
2. What do successful monarchs do? What did Charles I do?
3. How do historians disagree about the causes of the civil wars?
4. How did the civil wars divide families?
5. Why did Parliament win the civil wars?
6. Why did the winners of the civil wars argue among themselves?
7. Why do people interpret Cromwell in very different ways?
8. What happened at the Restoration?
9. Was 'the world turned upside down'?