L4: What Was the Middle Passage?

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

**KS3 History – The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Complete 10-Lesson Scheme + Assessment)** **Fully Resourced | Historical Literacy | Exam Skills | Vocabulary | Oracy | Custom Narratives** This complete KS3 unit offers a powerful, knowledge-rich and skills-based exploration of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Designed for mixed-ability classrooms, the module blends strong historical scholarship with accessible pedagogy, model answers, and custom-made learning materials. Across 10 fully resourced lessons plus a full end-of-unit assessment, students study the origins, experiences, resistance, abolition, and long-term legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, including a bonus lesson on Black Georgians to deepen representation in British history. **Lesson List – Full Scheme of Work (10 Lessons + Assessment)** **Part One – Before the Trade** * L1: What Was Slavery Before the Atlantic Trade? * L2: What Were the Great West African Kingdoms Like? * L3: How Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Begin? **Part Two – In Chains** * L4: What Was the Middle Passage? * L5: What Happened at a Slave Auction? * L6: What Was Life Like on the Plantation? **Part Three – Freedom and Legacy** * L7: How Did Enslaved People Resist Slavery? * L8: How and Why Was Slavery Abolished? * L9: What Is the Legacy of Slavery Today? **Bonus Lesson (Representation & Diversity)** L10: How Did Black People Shape Georgian Britain? **End-of-Unit Assessment** • Full 50-mark written assessment with mark scheme & peer marking **What This Bundle Includes** 10 complete lessons + full 50-mark assessment, each with: • Fully resourced PowerPoints • Printable worksheets • Model answers and instant feedback slides • Retrieval “Do Now” starters • Frayer models to strengthen vocabulary • Custom-written historical stories for accessibility • Source utility, inference, and interpretation practice • Extended writing scaffolds (PEE, DENTS, sentence starters) • Oracy routines (ABCD discussion) • Challenge and extension tasks • Peer- and self-marking templates • Clear learning objectives & keywords • Homework and differentiation opportunities