HISTORY LEARNING PROGRAMME
TEACHING GROUP:
10D
STAFF: CG
HALF TERM: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Subject Topic/Unit: Medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
By the end of this unit of work you will demonstrate your
learning and the progress you have made towards achieving
your aspirational target by:
The literacy skills you will need to develop and include within
the final assessment of your learning are:
Explaining:
 The importance of the theory of the four humours
 How medical ideas influenced treatment in the Middle
ages
 The role played by ‘hospitals’ in the Middle ages.
 How religion influenced medicine in the Middle ages
 The contribution of the ‘Renaissance superstars to the
development of medical knowledge
To locate and use information; to follow a process or argument
and summarise; to synthesise and adapt what you learn from
your reading; to use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar;
to organise your writing in a logical and coherent form.
Key words: change; continuity; cause; consequence; progress;
regress; Four Humours; natural; supernatural; surgery; anatomy;
Public health; bubonic plague; pneumonic plague; hospital;
Week 1
Week 2
Learning objective: to understand what a development study is;
To investigate the importance of the theory of the Four Humours
in the history of medicine
Literacy focus – key words: change; continuity; cause;
consequence; progress; regress
Homework task: learn glossary for test
Learning objective: To investigate the main medical ideas in
England in the late Middle Ages.
To investigate the main medical treatments in England in the
late Middle Ages.
Literacy focus – key words: Four Humours; natural;
supernatural; surgery; anatomy;
Homework task: exam question
Week 3
Learning objective: To investigate living conditions in
medieval towns and cities. To investigate Why the Black
Death of 1348 and 1349 was so frightening
Literacy focus – key words: Public health; bubonic plague;
pneumonic plague
Homework task: exam question
Week 4
Learning objective: To investigate the various types of
‘hospitals in the Middle Ages.
To investigate the importance of religion in medieval medicine
Literacy focus – key words: hospital
Homework task: exam question
Week 5
Week 6
Learning objective: To investigate what the Renaissance was
Learning objective: To investigate the contribution made by
and the impact it had on medicine. To investigate the
contribution made by Andreas Vesalius to the History of
medicine
Ambroise Pare to the History of medicine; To investigate
the contribution made by William Harvey to the History of
medicine
Literacy focus – key words: anatomy
Homework task: exam question
Literacy focus – key words: surgery
Homework task: exam question
Week 7
Learning objective: To investigate the Great Plague of 1665
Literacy focus – key words: Public health; bubonic plague;
Homework task: Exam question
Week 8
Learning objective:
Literacy focus:
Homework task: