The English Civil War
This lesson aims to question the character and personality of Oliver Cromwell.
Students will decide if he set out to kill the King from the start and make himself a despot or did circumstances dictate that this was his only option?
Moreover, with his puritanical ideas, did he make England and the Commonwealth a better place for it, or was it exclusive only to the minority?
This will ultimately be down to students’ own judgement as they plot his actions on a grid and justify their own conclusions.
Analysis of video evidence also helps to track his ideas and personality and gives the students ideas for writing his obituary and question why his burial place in Westminster Abbey bears the inscription 1658-1661.
The lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited throughout to show the progress of learning.
The resource includes suggested teaching strategies and differentiated materials, and comes in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.
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Great resource but the video links seem to have stopped working and I can't update from my end. Can you send me links to updated videos? for example, the Oliver Cromwell link.
I found this lesson very useful for my son, who needed to revise Y8 lessons about Cromwell. I enjoyed reading the ppt and watching the video myself! My son needs practice taking notes so the format of the lesson was very useful for him. (watch video, fill in chart, test yourself.) I am going to buy some other materials from this author.
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