This is a whole lesson which starts with a quick true and false quiz about the beliefs of Charles I. The lesson then develops into understanding the liberties of freeborn Englishman which links beautifully to the key concepts of this course. There are plenty of a number of tasks that encourage the students to categorise the beliefs of Englishmen, such as protecting the Protestant Church of England, Defending the rule of law, local power and accountability and not being taxed without Parliament’s agreement. The lesson then continues to examine one of Charles’s advisors during his personal rule - that of Sir Richard Weston. Students are then asked to examine evidence to show how he upset the liberties of free born Englishmen - by examining all the ways in which he tried to raise money for Charles. This worked extremely well with my year 11 class. All the resources for this lesson are within the powerpoint.

This lesson continues on from the the lesson about Charles I and Sir Richard Weston upsetting the political nation with the various taxes they implemented. This looks at the role of William Laud and Sir Thomas Wentworth later the Earl of Strafford. Students are asked to examine which Englishmen rights were they trampling all over. The lesson culminates with a section which explains how Charles went too far in trying to get the Scots to accept his English Prayer book. Whilst most of the activities are on the ppt, there are a couple of occasion where the War and Society text book will need to be used.

A quick and simple revision game! This can be played as a whole class, in pairs or small groups, or even individually! Students will need a dice, they roll twice to gain the coordinates for the subject they must then explain. If they can talk relevantly about the topic for over 30 seconds they can double their dice score. This game covers the OCR specification Explaining the modern world from Treaty of Versailles up to the War on Terror.

To help my year 11 gain an overview of the War and Society unit and in particular the attitudes and responses to variety of warfare - I created this revision sheet. This proved invaluable for their mock revision as they were able to draw on similar and different attitudes across the various periods.

Revision activity for students to complete covering presidents Lydon B Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan in terms of their Domestic and Foreign Policy. In line with the A2 AQA American Dream unit.

Included are 9 revision tasks covering the Yr 12 unit for the AQA American Dream, Reality Vs illusion unit. The tasks encourage independence with own revision as they have choices, but also offers them guidance for support. These task will also be excellent useful revision for Yr 13. There are resources supplied for 6 our of the 9 different suggested revision tasks. The tasks range from planning essays, source work questions, quizzes, and card sort tasks. There are some red herrings - which should allow from some good discussion opportunities. The content covers, domestic including economic, political and social issues as well and foreign policy issues. I have used these in conjunction with my President chart overview - a separate document you can buy. Students complete the various activities such as - which policy which president? and Which Foreign policy, which president? which serves as helpful reminder, confidence boost, or a - "I really need to get stuck into some revision!" for students! A win win! This is tried and tested and worked brilliantly with my year 12 this year!

Included in this bundle are 6 essay planning sheets. There are a number of questions - each sheet has one standard A Level question. There are then the key issues that need to be addressed in order to be able to successfully answer the essay question. - This is for the student to then complete. It should be noted that these form only a basis for student's knowledge to aid in student's revision and serve to help weaker students plan and identify necessary content. However, it can still be useful as a checklist for moreable students. Included is a completed answer example of Elizabeth's last years. I hope your students find them useful.

This is a useful resource that shows the timeline of events and the basic history historians were using to write their histories. It covers the basic historiography to enable GCSE students to be able to examine the events that surrounded the historians and their view points. This is brilliant for the GCSE course OCR A Explaining the modern world, but it certainly useful as a basic or starter guide to historiography for A level students and is something that has worked great this year. See also the Appeasement Historical interpretations Timeline .

Lesson 1 - covers the feelings at the end of WW1, then onto identifying the aims of the Big 3 and the terms of the treaty of Versailles. There are a number of activities for students to complete - including a facebook dialog between the Big 3 plus a homework. Lesson 2 introduces students to the skills required for an OCR style Q1 worth 5 marks and gives an example for students to mark. The lesson then moves on to the impact of the treaty on Germany Also included in the pack is an overview chart for the course where students can plot the driving forces of conflict and cooperation throughtout the 20th Century,

This is a timeline with the historical interpretations for appeasement and the view points of the historians linked the events that they use to argue their viewpoint. It was created with my OCRA GCSE students in mind to help them with the process of understanding what events were surrounding the historians who were writing and what evidence they used to support their claims. My Year 11 this year have found it incredibly useful for learning the interpretations but also to help them revise effectively. I also believe that this would be very useful for A level students who are studying this period and need a brief historical interpretations overview. See also my Cold War historical interpretations.

A lesson which incorporates some knowledge on the government’s response to the Red Scare - as the lesson starts off with a simple bingo game! Students have to pick 3 out of the list of 7 and then have to guess by the clues if they have bingo or not! The answers are on the subsequent slides. There is then a link to a clip about the rise of McCarthy and some questions on a slide that can be printed out for students to use to make notes from. There is then a task which requires students to identify the different groups of people who did try to challenge McCarthy. The final activities involve answering some Questions using the text book and then drawing a leg and making a note of the legacy of McCarthy. A fun and easy lesson to help students understand the period where American citizens had their rights and freedoms trampled for the sake of their rights and freedoms.

This is two lessons work which charts the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to total power over Germany by 1934 and the death of President Hindenburg. There is a worksheet with questions which follows a short video linked in the ppt and then there is a consolidation exercise where students are encouraged to write paragraphs explaining their knowledge and understanding of the events. There are a number of opportunities where students are asked to evaluate their progress and understanding of these events throughout the lesson. These will work as stand alone lessons, but they do follow nicely on from my first lesson Hitler and the Nazis rise to power - this covers the concepts of democracy and dictatorship and how Germany went from one to the other. These lessons are suitable for KS3 year 9.

A whole lesson, that starts with some recap questions with answers on the Red scare in 1950s America. There is a link to the clip - He may be a communist. Students then need to complete a display page with images and words to complete about the reaction of the American government to the red scare using the text books - students The following slides are then advice on how to answer certain exam style questions on the American paper. There is advice and guidance for a 2 mark question and a 5 mark source work question.

This is an excellent revision on skills for the OCR modern world A syllabus with the depth study on USA 1945-1975. The lesson has some class led tasks on marking and answering certain styles of questions, with accompanying guidance on how they should go about answering the questions. At the end of the ppt there are extra questions which students can work through either in their own time or in another lesson. The lesson covers the short answer (2 mark), source work and the different types of styles that could be asked as well as the large 18 mark question requiring a balanced answer with a substantiated conclusion at the end.

A lesson on Edward I. It covers the age of chivalry and the age of professional warfare. It examines 2 case studies as Edward I embarked upon his war in Wales and Scotland and then the hundred years war with France. Students are asked to complete worksheets and answer questions examining the impact of these conflicts on local, national, governement and psychological levels. The lesson draws together the key themes with a section on whether infact this period was an age of chivalry or an age of professional warfare. There are also some practise GCSE questions at the end. Attached is a ppt which has the resources at the end which can be printed off and completed by the students.

Included in this pack are a variety of 4,6 and 10 mark OCR GCSE style questions, covering content such as the Origins of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam and the depth study Russia. On some questions there is a model answer, others have guidance with support , others are blank for them to discover the answers themselves. There are plenty of opportunities for students to have a go at planning their short and essay style answers. These frames can them be used as a basis to write up their extended answers.

This is a couple of lessons work. It starts with a recap and an overall research task to obtain information to assess how successful was Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Great Society plans. Students are asked to produce a chart showing its successes and failures - there is a completed version included on the ppt which has a few examples. Following on from this, there is then a slide with some information about Sargent Shriver and his reasons for becoming frustrated with the Great Society. Some good Q&A could come from the statistic about the expense of the reforms against the cost of the Vietnam war. The second lesson uses the sourcework from the 2017 A2 AQA exam. Students are broken down into groups and asked to analyse their source in relation to the question and the markscheme - they are then to swap groups and share their knowledge about their source with other memembers. A homework task to write up their answers as an A2 answer is also included. This should NOT be used and set as cover work as teacher guidance is needed to facilitate group work and to ensure a higher level of analysis with the sources

A GCSE revision lesson based on the OCR modern world A specification. This could also be used as a consolidation lesson. The worksheet works along side the ppt, giving students opportunities to work independently or in pairs, on tasks such as matching up events with the countries, mini mindmap on Bin Laden, a True and False quiz, a note taking exercise on the more extreme actions of as-Qaeda, culminating in 9-11, the lesson finishes with a youtube clip covering the USA’s response and their war on terror. There are also some sample questions on the ppt for students to complete.

Attached is a couple of lessons work on the Boer war. Within the ppt, there is a link to a super documentary available on you tube called Scorched Earth. There is a worksheet to guide students through the programme - with various activities for students to complete. There is also a supplied answer sheet for teaching staff. The lesson will requires students to have access to the War in Society text book by Hodder education. There is a worksheet which can be printed off for students to complete regarding the impacts of the war on British society on the ppt - once they have an understanding of the background. There is also an SEN version of this on the ppt. At the end there are some exam style questions linking to the various imperial wars as recommended by OCR.

A lesson examining the requirements for the AQA A2 syllabus the American Dream Primary source work. The lesson briefly covers what the students need to do for each primary source. This should NOT be set as a cover lesson, it needs teacher guidance through the analysis. Students can work in pairs or threes, they are to analyse their source (on the ppt - I would print and blow these up to A3). they are to spend 5/6 mins completing what they can examining content and argument, tone and emphasis, provenance and contextual knowledge. Students are then to swap their source with another pair and continue analysing another source. Ideally all pairs should have seen all six sources. Once everyone has seen and had ago at annotating the sources, these can then be collated and a set photocopied for all students to have a mini booklet of sample answers.