Year 9: Three-year Scheme of Work Half-term: Summer 1 Life during the Cold War (Alternative to The Middle East) Unit title: Weeks 27–28 Enquiry question: How did the Cold War change lives in the East and West? Content details Links to Edexcel Progression Target Additional Extra stretch End of half-term GCSE (9–1) scale focus understanding for all understanding for understanding assessment will History students some students cover Week 27 * Superpower Causation and Causation and Causation and Causation and * Background: the breakdown of relations and the consequence consequence Step 7: consequence Step 8: consequence Step 8: the Grand Alliance Target Step 7 Learners are becoming Learners are able to Learners can explain Cold War, * The division of Germany and Stretch to Step confident in forming a construct and explain why events had certain Berlin 8 causal picture using a causal argument consequences and * Life in a Cold War city: the information that they using historical begin to recognise that Berlin Blockade, airlift, riots and are given and can knowledge with one cause may have the Wall construct a sound which they are multiple or conflicting explanation of why becoming consequences. They Causation and Week 28 * Superpower something happened. increasingly familiar. will begin to see how * McCarthyism and the Red Scare relations and the consequence Causation and This argument will causes and * Hollywood Ten and the Cold War, Target Step 7 consequence Step 7: put forward a case consequences overlap Rosenbergs Stretch to Step Learners are starting to for defining the and interact. * Effects on popular culture: 8 The prioritise some causes importance of Crucible as more important than particular causes or others. groups of causes, but Causation and there will be a lack of organisation or consequence Step 7: Learners are beginning sustained argument. to be more selective when deploying historical knowledge, although this may be patchy.
Year 9: Three-year Scheme of Work Half-term: Summer 1 Unit title: Life during the Cold War (Alternative to The Middle East) Weeks 27–28 Enquiry question: How did the Cold War change lives in the East and West? 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 * Background: the breakdown of the Grand Alliance * The division of Germany and Berlin * Life in a Cold War city: the Berlin Blockade, airlift, riots and the Wall * Superpower relations and the Cold War, Causation and consequence Target Step 7 Stretch to Step 8 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. Causation and consequence Step 7: Learners are starting to prioritise some causes as more important than others. Causation and consequence Step 7: Learners are beginning to be more selective when deploying historical knowledge, although this may be patchy. 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 8: Learners can explain why events had certain consequences and begin to recognise that one cause may have multiple or conflicting consequences. They will begin to see how causes and consequences overlap and interact. Week 28 * McCarthyism and the Red Scare * Hollywood Ten and the Rosenbergs * Effects on popular culture: The Crucible * Superpower relations and the Cold War, Causation and consequence Target Step 7 Stretch to Step 8
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