Power & The People: The Impact of The Peasants Revolt

AQA GCSE history lesson for The Power & The People thematic unit. In this lesson we look at the successes and failure of the revolt and the short & long term impacts.

The starter is a simple retrieval practice quiz based on Nando’s spice levels. We start by recalling the events of the revolt. The pupils are shown a map of medieval London with significant locations of the revolt, they have to match the events to the locations. We then look at the death of Wat Tyler and two different sources. I just discuss with my pupils what may or may not have happened. We then look at the successes and failures of the revolt. The pupils create a table in their books and draw a scale to visually show how they think the revolt may have succeeded or not. We then look at the significance of the revolt. The pupils complete a wheel of life and annotate to explain why they have scored it what they did. We them tackle a GCSE-style question on the significance of The Peasants Revolt with some guidance on how to answer,

I hope that this saves you some valuable planning time.

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