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| Aims for the Year |
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develop knowledge and understanding
of the ideas, events and changes during the past 250
years
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foster an enjoyment of history
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develop the skills of causation, analysis
of change and investigate sources
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| What we will
do |
- Black People of the Americas
- origins of slavery
- life on plantations
- the American Civil War
- the end of slavery
- origins of the Civil Rights
Movement
- challenges to segregation
- 1960s to the new Millennium
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- The Twentieth Century World
- the origins of the First World War
- the Western Front
- including Haig and the Battle of the Somme
- life in Nazi Germany
- the origins of World War 2
- the Home Front World War 2
- the Holocaust
- the atomic bomb
- the Cold War
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| Assessment |
- continuous classroom assessment
- detailed marking of specific assessments
with targets set
- tasks based on National Curriculum
targets
- examination in May
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| Ways you can
help |
- visit museums such as the Slavery
Museum, Liverpool; Imperial War Museum; Museum of London
Life; Dover Castle
- encourage pupils to read history
books and use ICT especially related to the twentieth
century
- encourage pupils to watch TV documentaries
on historical topics such as those shown on the History
Channel
- watch films such as Pearl Harbour,
U-571, The Trench, Thirteen Days
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| Keywords |
segregation
prejudice
holocaust
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slavery
oppression
communism |
nuclear
capitalism
discrimination appeasement |
