Year 7: Three-year Scheme of Work Half-term: Autumn 2 Life in Medieval England (alternative to Medieval Religion) Unit title: Weeks 8—11 Enquiry question: What was everyday life like in medieval England? 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 8 Context for: Evidence Evidence Step 4: Evidence Step 5: Evidence Step 6: * Village life * Anglo-Saxon Target Step 4 Learners appreciate Learners can Learners use sources * Life in towns and Norman Stretch to Step that historians need to distinguish between to make simple * Differences between rich and England 5 interrogate sources to information about the inferences about the poor (reinforcing feudal system), Chronology work out what past and evidence past and are beginning including villeins and cottars Historical happened in the past. that historians extract to understand that * The reigns of King Richard I vocabulary Evidence Step 4: from sources through historians gather and King John, Learners comment on a process of evidence by 1189–1216 the reliability of interrogation in order interrogating sources to support their information with a (‘biased’ may be used as a catch-all claims, i.e. I can particular purpose. Week 9 Context for: Evidence term) but have little suggest that X was * Health and diet Target Step 4 * Anglo-Saxon understanding of how important because of * Sources of food: farming, and Norman Stretch to Step historians build an evidence Y and Z. hunting and trade England 5 evidence picture. Evidence Step 5: * Staple food and drink (rich and Causation and Learners make poor) * The reigns of consequence Step 4: generalised * Theories of illness (humours, King Richard I Learners can identify a references to punishment from God) and King John, number of causes and provenance (e.g. 1189–1216 are beginning to from ‘sources categorise these into witnesses are more different types or reliable’). groups of causes, e.g. short-term and
Year 7: Three-year Scheme of Work Half-term: Autumn 2 Unit title: Life in Medieval England (alternative to Medieval Religion) Weeks 8—11 Enquiry question: What was everyday life like in medieval England? 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 8 * Village life * Life in towns * Differences between rich and poor (reinforcing feudal system), including villeins and cottars Context for: * Anglo-Saxon and Norman England * The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216 Evidence Target Step 4 Stretch to Step 5 Chronology Historical vocabulary Evidence Step 4: Learners appreciate that historians need to interrogate sources to work out what happened in the past. Evidence Step 4: Learners comment on the reliability of sources (‘biased’ may be used as a catch-all term) but have little understanding of how historians build an evidence picture. Causation and consequence Step 4: Learners can identify a number of causes and are beginning to categorise these into different types or groups of causes, e.g. short-term and 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’). 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. Week 9 * Health and diet * Sources of food: farming, hunting and trade * Staple food and drink (rich and poor) * Theories of illness (humours, punishment from God) Context for: * Anglo-Saxon and Norman England * The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216 Evidence Target Step 4 Stretch to Step 5
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