History at key stage 3 (Year 8)
Unit 8: The civil wars was England 'turned upside down' in the seventeenth century?
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Section 1: Why was 1649 a year of reckoning?
Children:
- analyse the relationship between the events of 1649 and the conflicting ideas about how society should be organised
- listen for a specific purpose, note the main points and consider their relevance and validity
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Section 2: What do successful monarchs do? What did Charles I do?
Children:
- make links between the events of the reign of Charles I and the story of his predecessors as rulers of England
- assess the relative significance of the mistakes of Charles I
- evaluate his competence as a monarch
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Section 3: How do historians disagree about the causes of the civil wars?
Children:
- categorise causes of the civil wars and recognise that different interpretations use different categories
- know some causes of the civil wars and can explain that some are more important than others
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Section 4: How did the civil wars divide families?
Children:
- understand and explain the complex impact of the conflict on individual families
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Section 5: Why did Parliament win the civil wars?
Children:
- analyse reasons for the Parliamentary victory
- make links between an event, such as the Battle of Naseby, and the bigger story of Parliamentary victory
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Section 6: Why did the winners of the civil wars argue among themselves?
Children:
- understand some of the political arguments used by different factions within the victorious Parliamentary army
- explain whether the army or Parliament was more successful in the struggle that followed the conclusion of the civil wars
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Section 7: Why do people interpret Cromwell in very different ways?
Children:
- explain how and why different interpretations of Cromwell have been produced
- produce a structured interpretation of Cromwell's actions at Drogheda and Wexford
- use information cards to reach a conclusion about the nature of Cromwell's 'rule' as Lord Protector
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Section 8: What happened at the Restoration?
Children:
- analyse reasons for the Restoration
- understand the different consequences for people across the social spectrum
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Section 9: Was 'the world turned upside down'?
Children:
- 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
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