History at key stage 3    (Year 8/9)

• to analyse the types of arguments and struggles for women's rights that took place in the nineteenth century
• to make links between women's legal status and their perceived gender roles

• about the principles that currently underpin western democracy
• to analyse the social and cultural factors that excluded different groups of persons from the franchise in 1815
• to understand and to articulate attitudes and principles different from their own

• to carry out an investigation into the ways in which different groups sought to challenge the existing political system between 1815 and 1832
• to refine skills in the selection of relevant items when researching the activities of a nineteenth-century protest group
• about the reasons for, and limitations of, the 1832 Reform Act
• to explain the main reasons for the immediate failure of the Chartist Movement
• about the ultimate achievement of five of the Chartists' six demands and whether or not this was directly, or indirectly, due to the Chartists
• that the Chartists' attitudes to women were typical of attitudes common in Victorian Britain

• why the 1867 and 1884 Acts were passed
• to develop their understanding of causation by constructing diagrams using (and refining) 'organising techniques' taught in earlier units

• to evaluate the extent of the changes to women's economic, legal, and political status by 1901
• that by the end of the nineteenth century many women were able to vote in local elections but not national ones
• that the 'Angel in the House' model still held good by the end of the century

• that arguments and campaigns for suffrage predated the suffragette campaigns of the early twentieth century
• about the factors that caused different types of people to argue or campaign for female suffrage
• to develop knowledge and understanding of campaigning methods used by suffragists and suffragettes
• to use their classifying skills (developed earlier) in a new historical setting

• about the role that women in Britain played during the First World War
• to analyse and evaluate the impact of women's war work on political, social and cultural attitudes
• to evaluate the changes in franchise in 1918 and 1928 as they affected men and women

• to construct a piece of formal, extended writing using techniques of selecting, sorting and arranging
• to revise and deploy knowledge gained in this unit
• to develop new skills in persuasive and promotional writing