Year 8: Three-year Scheme of Work Half-term: Summer 1 The American Civil War (Alternative to The British Empire) Unit title: Weeks 27–28 Enquiry question: What caused the American Civil War? 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 * British America, Chronology Chronology Step 6: Chronology Step 7: Chronology Step 7: Background US expansion 1713–1783 Target Step 6 Learners are Learners are Learners are confident – across North America: Stretch to Step increasingly confident beginning to make when approaching new * The American * Farming Louisiana Purchase West, 7 in placing a new assumptions about historical periods or – * Conquest Mexican-American period or topic within periods because of contexts and – War Background to their own knowledge that they increasingly have their * Resources Gold Rush, 1849 chronological already have (e.g. own simple * The USA, – reference and are a chronological picture ‘was everyone beginning to make Catholic because this into which they can Evidence Week 28 * British America, links between periods was before the place new knowledge, * Differences between Northern 1713–1783 Target Step 6 that they have studied. although they may still and Southern economies * The American Stretch to Step Reformation?’). Chronology Step 6: Causation and need some support. * Argument over slavery 7 West, – timelines consequence Step 7: Missouri Compromise and Causation and Learners’ and other work show Learners are Kansas Nebraska Act Background to consequence an appreciation of the becoming confident * Events leading to war Dred * The USA, Target Step 6 – different scales of time in forming a causal Scott case and raid Stretch to Step John Brown’s and how they fit picture using * 7 Lincoln’s election together. information that they Causation and are given and can consequence Step 6: construct a sound Learners can link explanation of why categories of causes to something happened. form a simple causal Evidence Step 7: picture and begin to Learners can make
Year 8: Three-year Scheme of Work Half-term: Summer 1 Unit title: The American Civil War (Alternative to The British Empire) Weeks 27–28 Enquiry question: What caused the American Civil War? 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 – US expansion across North America: * Farming – Louisiana Purchase * Conquest – Mexican-American War * Resources – Gold Rush, 1849 * British America, 1713–1783 * The American West, Background to * The USA, Chronology Target Step 6 Stretch to Step 7 Chronology Step 6: Learners are increasingly confident in placing a new period or topic within their own chronological reference and are beginning to make links between periods that they have studied. Chronology Step 6: Learners’ timelines and other work show an appreciation of the different scales of time and how they fit together. Causation and consequence Step 6: Learners can link categories of causes to form a simple causal picture and begin to Chronology Step 7: Learners are beginning to make assumptions about periods because of knowledge that they already have (e.g. ‘was everyone a Catholic because this was before the Reformation?’). 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. Evidence Step 7: Learners can make Chronology Step 7: Learners are confident when approaching new historical periods or contexts and increasingly have their own simple chronological picture into which they can place new knowledge, although they may still need some support. Week 28 * Differences between Northern and Southern economies * Argument over slavery – Missouri Compromise and Kansas Nebraska Act * Events leading to war – Dred Scott case and John Brown’s raid * Lincoln’s election * British America, 1713–1783 * The American West, Background to * The USA, Evidence Target Step 6 Stretch to Step 7 Causation and consequence Target Step 6 Stretch to Step 7
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