Weeks 31–32 Enquiry question: Why is the Middle East in the news so much? Week 31 Conflict in Causation and Change and continuity Change and Causation and Change and What caused the First Gulf War? consequence Step 8: Learners are the Middle continuity Step 9: consequence continuity * Why have dictatorships flourished in Target Step 7 confident when using the Learners can begin to Step 9: Learners East, Causation and the Middle East? Stretch to Step 8 language of change and look at lines of use knowledge consequence * Case study: Saddam Hussein Stretch to Step 9 are beginning to explain development over a to construct a * Treatment of the Kurds and the Iraqi why some changes are long period of time causal people. Use of chemical weapons significant or seen as and can select some argument, * Financial pressures from the significant depending on examples to support although they war debts to Kuwait and Saudi perspective. a simple argument may struggle to – Arabia about change and make this Change and continuity * Local issues: Iraqi claims over Step 8: Learners can continuity or knowledge fully Kuwait. Iraq's land-locked status. explain lines of significance. relevant to the Disputes over oil production by development in which Causation and question asked. Kuwait changes work There is some consequence Step 8: * Reasons for intervention by the UN, cumulatively in the same Learners are able to attempt to US and allies. How important was oil? direction or pull in construct and explain organise their different directions. a causal argument answer using a Week 32 Change and However, they struggle to using historical causal focus and What caused the 'War on Terror'? continuity link lines of development knowledge with there will be * The dramatic events of 9-11 Target Step 8 * What is Islamic extremism and what Stretch to Step 9 to each other. which they are evidence of an Causation and becoming argument do Islamic extremists want? increasingly familiar. forming * Reasons for western intervention consequence Step 7: Learners are becoming This argument will against the Taliban in Afghanistan and confident in forming a put forward a case the Second Gulf War causal picture using for defining the * Review of the causes of conflict in information that they are importance of the Middle East in the 20th Century. Identify common causes and changing given and can construct a particular causes or sound explanation of why groups of causes, but causes of instability something happened. there will be a lack (Reinforced) of organisation or sustained argument.
Weeks 31–32 Enquiry question: Why is the Middle East in the news so much? Week 31 What caused the First Gulf War? * Why have dictatorships flourished in the Middle East? * Case study: Saddam Hussein * Treatment of the Kurds and the Iraqi people. Use of chemical weapons * Financial pressures from the war – debts to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia * Local issues: Iraqi claims over Kuwait. Iraq's land-locked status. Disputes over oil production by Kuwait * Reasons for intervention by the UN, US and allies. How important was oil? Conflict in the Middle East, Causation and consequence Target Step 7 Stretch to Step 8 Stretch to Step 9 Change and continuity Step 8: Learners are confident when using the language of change and are beginning to explain why some changes are significant or seen as significant depending on perspective. Change and continuity Step 8: Learners can explain lines of development in which changes work cumulatively in the same direction or pull in different directions. However, they struggle to link lines of development to each other. Causation and consequence Step 7: Learners are becoming confident in forming a causal picture using information that they are given and can construct a sound explanation of why something happened. (Reinforced) Change and continuity Step 9: Learners can begin to look at lines of development over a long period of time and can select some examples to support a simple argument about change and continuity or significance. Causation and consequence Step 8: Learners are able to construct and explain a causal argument using historical knowledge with which they are becoming increasingly familiar. This argument will put forward a case for defining the importance of particular causes or groups of causes, but there will be a lack of organisation or sustained argument. Causation and consequence Step 9: Learners use knowledge to construct a causal argument, although they may struggle to make this knowledge fully relevant to the question asked. There is some attempt to organise their answer using a causal focus and there will be evidence of an argument forming Change and continuity Causation and consequence Week 32 What caused the 'War on Terror'? * The dramatic events of 9-11 * What is Islamic extremism and what do Islamic extremists want? * Reasons for western intervention against the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Second Gulf War * Review of the causes of conflict in the Middle East in the 20th Century. Identify common causes and changing causes of instability Change and continuity Target Step 8 Stretch to Step 9