How did William control England? Lesson 13 - GCSE History Edexcel Paper 2 - Normans (B1)

This is the thirteenth lesson for GCSE History Edexcel Paper 2, option B1 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England 1060-1088. It is the first in a series of 7 lessons, which covers the second key topic: William I in power: securing the kingdom, 1066–87.

This lesson is intended to allow students to be able to explain strategies William used to establish control across England, including the submission of the earls, the treatment of Normans and Anglo-Saxons and the building of castles. This is carried out through knowledge recall, knowledge activation through a video, information categorisation and image annotation.

Every lesson follows a uniform structure, utilising Rosenshine’s Principles for sequencing and Bloom’s Taxonomy for learning objectives to build challenge. Each lesson is designed to be easy for any teacher to pick up and use. This is through the slides being colour coded and action icons to illustrate what should be done, this is so the students and teacher knows exactly what to do and avoids cognitive overload. There are stretch activities for more able, scaffolding for the less able and key terms and dual coding for EAL students. There is an instructions slide for teachers, outlining the learning objectives, timing, key stage aimed at and specific instructions of which resources should be printed and the quantities of them (assuming a teacher has an approximate class of 30).

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