Half-term: Summer 1 Unit title: The Black Death Was 1348 the end of the world? Weeks 27–29 Enquiry question: Content details Links to Edexcel Progression Target Additional Extra stretch End of half term GCSE (9–1) scale focus understanding for understanding for understanding assessment will History all students some students cover Week 27 Medicine through Evidence Evidence Step 5: Evidence Step 6: Evidence Step 6: Change and * Origins of the Black Death time, (maps & data) Learners can Learners use sources Begin to frame their continuity * Spread of Black Death Target Step 5 distinguish between to make simple own historically valid Evidence * Medieval explanations Stretch to Step information about the inferences about the questions about 6 past and evidence past and are beginning sources or identify that historians extract to understand that appropriate sets of Evidence Week 28 Medicine through from sources through historians gather sources. * Symptoms of Black Death time, (Personal a process of evidence by * Prevention and treatment accounts) interrogation in order interrogating Target Step 5 to support their information with a Stretch to Step claims, i.e. I can particular purpose. 6 suggest that X was Evidence Step 6: Week 29 Medicine through Change and important because of Learners can use a * Effect on towns and villages continuity time, evidence Y and Z. small group of sources * Mortality rates (in different Target Step 5 Evidence Step 5: together to make areas) Stretch to Step Learners make simple inferences and * Short term impacts burial 6 – generalised present this as problems, abandoned villages, Evidence references to evidence. shortages of supplies Target Step 5 provenance (e.g. Change and Stretch to Step from continuity Step 5: 6 ‘sources witnesses are more They show a basic understanding that not reliable’). (Reinforced) all changes that take Change and place are as important continuity Step 5: as each other. Learners can Change and describe change continuity Step 6: using features of the Learners can begin to period or periods that use some of the
Half-term: Summer 1 Unit title: The Black Death Weeks 27–29 Enquiry question: Was 1348 the end of the world? Content details Links to Edexcel GCSE (9–1) History Progression scale focus Target understanding for all students Additional understanding for some students Extra stretch understanding End of half term assessment will cover Week 27 * Origins of the Black Death * Spread of Black Death * Medieval explanations Medicine through time, Evidence (maps & data) Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 6 Evidence Step 5: Learners can distinguish between information about the past and evidence that historians extract from sources through a process of interrogation in order to support their claims, i.e. I can suggest that X was important because of evidence Y and Z. Evidence Step 5: Learners make generalised references to provenance (e.g. ‘sources from witnesses are more reliable’). (Reinforced) Change and continuity Step 5: Learners can describe change using features of the period or periods that Evidence Step 6: Learners use sources to make simple inferences about the past and are beginning to understand that historians gather evidence by interrogating information with a particular purpose. Evidence Step 6: Learners can use a small group of sources together to make simple inferences and present this as evidence. Change and continuity Step 5: They show a basic understanding that not all changes that take place are as important as each other. Change and continuity Step 6: Learners can begin to use some of the Evidence Step 6: Begin to frame their own historically valid questions about sources or identify appropriate sets of sources. Change and continuity Evidence Week 28 * Symptoms of Black Death * Prevention and treatment Medicine through time, Evidence (Personal accounts) Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 6 Week 29 * Effect on towns and villages * Mortality rates (in different areas) * Short term impacts – burial problems, abandoned villages, shortages of supplies Medicine through time, Change and continuity Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 6 Evidence Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 6