What were Marcher Earldoms? Lesson 14 - GCSE History Edexcel Paper 2 - Normans (B1)

This is the fourteenth lesson for GCSE History Edexcel Paper 2, option B1 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England 1060-1088. It is the second 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 what a marcher earldom was. This is carried out through exam question practice, knowledge activation and a carousel style task to comprehend information about the special powers march earldoms had.

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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