The Suffragettes/Suffrage Movement - Year 8 scheme of learning

A complete unit designed for Year 8 on the women’s Suffrage Movement/the Suffragettes.

This unit is fully resourced for each lesson, including clearly chunked activities and assessment points at the end of each unit based around a central question.

The following lessons are included (each roughly 1hr to deliver):

1. Rights of women throughout history
2. Rights of women in Edwardian England
3. How successful were the Suffragists?
4. The Pankhursts
5. How successful were the Suffragettes?
6. Did Emily Davison mean to die?
7. Suffragists or Suffragettes?
8. What was the impact of the First World War on women’s Suffrage?
9. Did 1918 give women equality?
10. Are women equal in modern society?

All units focus on the core skills of history (chronology, causation, change and continuity, historiography, source-analysis and judgement making), and are part of an overall theme for the year (For Year 7 this is ‘The Changing Nature of Power’, for Year 8 it is ‘Progress vs Regress’ and for Year 9 it is ‘Conflict’).

Each unit is also designed to focus on inclusive, social, history where possible. This aims to include the experiences of black people, disabled, LGBT and other minority groups throughout history. This innovative approach is in line with Ofsted’s framework regarding inclusivity in the curriculum and avoids the issue of tokenism within history.

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