Year 8: Three-year Scheme of Work Half-term: Autumn 1 Unit title: Challenges to the Catholic Church Was the Weeks 1–4 Enquiry question: Reformation a ‘good thing’? Content details Links to Edexcel Progression Target Additional Extra stretch End of half term GCSE (9–1) History scale focus understanding for all understanding for understanding assessment will students some students cover Background to Evidence Week 1 Henry Change and Change and Change and Change and * Reasons why some VIII and his ministers, Target Step 5 continuity Step 5: continuity Step 5: continuity Step 6: continuity people questioned 1509–1540 Stretch to Step 6 Learners can describe They show a basic They can recognise Interpretations Catholicism: sinful priests, change using features understanding that that a change may be greed, indulgences, parts of the period or not all changes that important to one not in the bible periods that they are take place are as society or group of * Martin Luther & 95 studying. They important as each people but has little Theses understand that change other. historical significance * Short-term reaction to the often happens as a Change and in another context. reformation result of events or continuity Step 6: actions by individuals, Learners can begin Context for: Chronology Week 2 rather than being the to use some of the * Timeline from Peasants * Henry VIII and his Target Step 5 event or individual language of change Revolt to 1603 ministers, 1509–1540 Change and themselves. to talk simply about * Chart the major changes * Early Elizabethan continuity the pace or extent of in religion with some links England, 1558–1588 Target Step 5 Evidence Step 5: Learners can changes with which to developments in Europe Stretch to Step 6 * Review learning about distinguish between they are familiar. information about the Evidence Step 6: medieval church past and evidence that Learners use sources Week 3 Henry VIII and his Interpretation historians extract from to make simple * Henry's "Great Matter": Target Step 5 ministers, 1509–1540 sources through a inferences about the Catherine of Aragon Background to Stretch to Step 5 Early process of past and are * The Break from Rome Elizabethan England, interrogation in order beginning to * Was Henry motivated by 1558–1588 to support their claims, understand that religious or political issues?
Year 8: Three-year Scheme of Work Half-term: Autumn 1 Unit title: Challenges to the Catholic Church Weeks 1–4 Enquiry question: Was the Reformation a ‘good thing’? 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 1 * Reasons why some people questioned Catholicism: sinful priests, greed, indulgences, parts not in the bible * Martin Luther & 95 Theses * Short-term reaction to the reformation Background to Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509–1540 Evidence Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 6 Change and continuity Step 5: Learners can describe change using features of the period or periods that they are studying. They understand that change often happens as a result of events or actions by individuals, rather than being the event or individual themselves. 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, 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 language of change to talk simply about the pace or extent of changes with which they are familiar. Evidence Step 6: Learners use sources to make simple inferences about the past and are beginning to understand that Change and continuity Step 6: They can recognise that a change may be important to one society or group of people but has little historical significance in another context. Change and continuity Interpretations Week 2 * Timeline from Peasants Revolt to 1603 * Chart the major changes in religion with some links to developments in Europe * Review learning about medieval church Context for: * Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509–1540 * Early Elizabethan England, 1558–1588 Chronology Target Step 5 Change and continuity Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 6 Week 3 * Henry's "Great Matter": Catherine of Aragon * The Break from Rome * Was Henry motivated by religious or political issues? Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509–1540 Background to Early Elizabethan England, 1558–1588 Interpretation Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 5