Unit 1: Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, 1060–66. GCSE Edexcel History Paper 2: B1 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England 1060-1088

This bundle contains all the content for Unit 1: Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, 1060–66 from the GCSE Edexcel History Paper 2: B1 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England 1060-1088 course. The bundle also includes an end of unit assessment, model answer and DIRT lesson. Each lesson contains a range of different activities to engage and and develop students knowledge of the course. There are also lots of opportunities for exam question practice and planning.

This bundle is 1 of 3, which cover the whole of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman England 1060-1088 Edexcel course.

In this bundle:

1. Who were the Anglo-Saxons?
2. what was life like in Anglo-Saxon England?
3. How was law and order carried out in the Anglo-Saxon period?
4. What was the Danelaw and who was Alfred?
5. Who was Edward the Confessor and how did he cause the succession crisis?
6. How was power and authority held?
7. What was an earldom and who controlled them?
8. Who were the Godwins?
9. Who were the claimants to the English throne?
10. The battles of Gate Fulford and Stamford Bridge.
11. Why did William win the battle of Hastings?
12. Unit 1 assessment and DIRT lesson.

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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