GCSE Elizabeth homework booklet
Designed for the Edexcel GCSE course
This booklet covers the whole Elizabeth unit and includes a range of activities meant to consolidate learning that can be set weekly. This can also be used as a revision booklet.
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Essay guidance for answering the question ‘How far do you agree with the view that Reagan’s economic policies in the years 1981-96 were just a way to make the rich richer?’
Includes varying levels of example essays, which I usually get my students to mark and give feedback on so they can see the difference between a low, mid and high level essay. Also includes planning sheets, articles and structure sheets.
Lesson 12 - Why did Labour lose the 1970 election?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 2 Lesson 12
Prep work included
This lesson can be used at the end of Unit 2 as a summary lesson or the start of Unit 3
Lesson 1: The 1951 election and the post-war consensus
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1 Lesson 1
This lesson includes a course intro and a discussion on the post-war Labour government based on the prep work students are expected to complete over the summer holiday. The focus of the lesson is on the 1951 election and what is meant by the post-war consensus
Prep work included
Lesson 8 - The Winds of Change and Decolonisation
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1 Lesson 8
Foreign affairs
Prep work included
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Lesson 11 & 12 - How far did society and culture change, 1951-64?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1 Lesson 11 & 12
Prep work included
This lesson culminates in a group presentation project, hence why it is combined as 2 lessons. Resources include info booklets and guidance questions that students groups can use in their research when putting their presentations together
Includes essay practice
Lesson 9 - What was the impact of Britain’s failures in Suez and the EEC?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1 Lesson 9
Foreign affairs
Prep work included
This lesson uses a video clip from Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain series - episode 2 06.30 min to 12:16min on the Suez Crisis
Lesson 5 - Was the Affluent Society Really Affluent?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1 Lesson 5
Economic developments
Prep work included
Lesson includes source practice with exemplar responses
Lesson 6 - How did affluence impact society in the 1950s?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1 Lesson 6
Economic developments
Prep work included
Lesson 7 - How did the Cold War affect foreign relations?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1 Lesson 7
Foreign affairs
Prep work included
Lesson 10 - Source skills
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1 Lesson 10
This lesson is dedicated to source practice and follows on directly from lessons 7-9 on foreign affairs but could also be used as a standalone lesson.
Unit 1 review
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1
I use this at the end of all the Unit 1 lessons but can be used as a standalone revision lesson
Lesson 2 - Labour economic policies and problems, 1964-70
AQA A Level 2S Unit 2 Lesson 2
Prep work included
Economic developments - this will most likely take 2 lessons, the first one on the DEA and devaluation and the second one on industrial relations
This lesson uses 3 clips from Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain Episode 3 - times can be found in the PPT notes
Lesson 9 - How far did changes in 1960s society affect women and youth?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 2 Lesson 9
Prep work included
Includes a class debate at the end on the extent of ‘permissiveness’ in society
Lesson 10 - Scientific and social developments in the 1960s
AQA A Level 2S Unit 2 Lesson 10
Prep work included
In this lesson, students create presentations on the expansion of the mass media, growth in leisure activities, the impact of scientific developments and the reduction in censorship
Lesson 11 - How did attitudes towards immigration and race change in the 1960s?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 2 Lesson 11
Prep work included
Lesson 7: What was Britain’s relationship with Europe during the 1970s?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 3 Lesson 7
Prep work included
Lesson 5: The beginning of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland
AQA A Level 2S Unit 3 Lesson 5
Prep work included
This lesson can be used in Unit 2 instead - we put it in Unit 3 before focusing on the Troubles in the 1970s since this is when the tensions fully escalated
Lesson 3 & 4 - Did the Labour party fail regarding the economy?
AQA A Level 2S Unit 2 Lesson 3
Skills based lesson building on Lesson 2 - essay and source practice included
Prep work included
Lesson 4 is a timed essay done in class but could be set as HW instead
Lesson 4 - Conservative party domination and decline
AQA A Level 2S Unit 1 Lesson 4
Prep work included
The video clip is from Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain series - episode 2 50:10-57:26 - this clip is scandals the Conservative Party faced




















