History at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 22: The role of the individual for good or ill?
Section 6: Was the individual's impact for good or ill?
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Objectives |
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- to consolidate and extend previous learning
- that events in the past were not inevitable
- to assess the degree of control over events that an individual may possess
- to reach a supported conclusion about the impact an individual has on society
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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Children: |
- Ask the class to build up two 'spidergrams' - one with 'good' at the centre and one with 'ill' based on their recent work on the individual and that person's impact.
- Develop pupils' thinking by posing the question:
How can we decide what is 'good' and what is 'ill'? Introduce the idea of value judgements and whether or not some values are absolute or will change over time.
- Ask the pupils to write a balanced account of whether the individual's impact was for good or ill.
- Conclude with whole-class questioning to cover issues, eg How much control over events does an individual have? Do changes in history always result in progress? Was it only certain individuals in society who could attempt to influence events?
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- identify and present orally and in writing, their analysis of the individual's impact for good or ill
- judge through debate the amount of influence individuals have over events
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Points to note |
- This final session aims to return to the key question and consolidate, reinforce and offer diagnostic evidence of pupils' understanding.
- It may be possible to make appropriate links to other topics, subjects and individuals encountered by the pupils and discuss key similarities.
- Language for learning: organise content into complete text with the relationship between points/paragraphs clearly signalled; structure paragraphs to develop points, by using evidence and additional facts.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
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