Transatlantic Slave Trade Lessons Comp.

A complete, fully-resourced scheme of work on the Transatlantic Slave Trade, built for Year 8 / KS3 History and ready to teach straight from one PowerPoint — no need to hunt down separate worksheets, source packs or assessment materials.

Covers the full narrative arc across 9 lessons:

Experiences of the Slave Trade — capture and the Middle Passage, through first-hand accounts including Olaudah Equiano
Life on Plantations — working and living conditions, using contemporary sources
Arguments For & Against the Slave Trade — a structured debate task
Abolition of Slavery Part 1 — the abolitionists: Clarkson, Wilberforce and Equiano
Abolition of Slavery Part 2 — Equiano and Wilberforce in depth
Consequences of Abolition — a card-sort and SWOT analysis of the position of Black Americans after the 13th Amendment
The Legacy of Slavery — civil rights, culture and the built environment, with a “knowledge quilt” creative task
Assessment Prep — a Point/Evidence/Explain/Provenance/Link writing frame
Assessment — a full source-based assessment with a levelled (1–4) mark scheme for self/peer assessment