Holly Hall Academy – Key Stage 3 Curriculum Document, September 2014 – 2015
YEAR 7
Unit 1
Unit Question:
How did medieval monarchs keep control?
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit Question:
How hard was medieval life in town and
country?
Unit Question:
How did the Tudors solve the religious
problems of their era?
Key Unit Focuses:
The Norman Conquest, King Henry II,
Thomas Beckett, King John
Key Unit Focuses:
The Black Death, The Peasants’ Revolt
Key Unit Focuses:
The Wars of the Roses, Henry VII and
attempts to restore stability, the
English reformation and counter
reformation- Henry VIII to Mary I,
Elizabethan religious settlements
Key Unit Focuses:
The Stuarts- causes and events of Civil War,
interregnum, restoration and glorious
revolution, Act of Union, Hanoverian
succession and the Jacobite rebellions of
1715 and 1745
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
Changing nature of political power,
development of British state/church,
feudalism, parliament, historical
investigation/enquiry, cause,
consequence, interpretation
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
Social history, feudalism, religion, disease,
anachronisms, evidence, historical
investigation/enquiry, source utility,
plague, revolt
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
Changing nature of political power,
development of British state/church,
reformation, parliament, historical
investigation/enquiry
Key Unit Concepts/Words:
Cause, consequence, change, continuity,
significance, Civil War
Key Assessments/Creative Outcomes:
 Causation Essay- Battle of Hastings
 Interpretation Essay- King John
Key Assessments/Creative Outcomes:
 Group Project- Mad Medieval Medicine
Role Play
 Black Death Source Assessment
Key Assessments/Creative Outcomes:
 Role Play- English Civil War
 Causation Essay- Causes of the Civil War
Key Unit Homework:
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Persuasive writing best King
candidate
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Redrafting following Hastings
assessment
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Domesday survey for own household
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Assessment prep and research
Key Unit Homework:
 Creative work on Black Death Cures
 Redrafting following source assessment
 Reflective writing on medieval life
 Creative writing on death of Wat Tyler
Key Assessments/Creative Outcomes:
 Investigation- What happened to the
Princes in the Tower?
 Group Project- How successfully did
Elizabeth deal with the conflicts of her
reign?
Key Unit Homework:
 Reflective writing on religious change
in Tudor England.
 Research as part of group projects on
Queen Elizabeth I.
Useful Website:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/hi
story/middle_ages/1066_norman_co
nquest/revision/1/
http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.ht
ml
http://tudorhistory.org/
Unit Question:
How did the monarchy turn England upside
down in the 17th Century?
Key Unit Homework:
 Persuasive writing on success of Charles
I.
 Reflective paragraph on the trial of
Charles I.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/ci
vil_war_revolution/
Holly Hall Academy – Key Stage 3 Curriculum Document, September 2014 – 2015
YEAR 7
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/
king_john.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/histori
c_figures/becket_thomas.shtml
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/
thomas_becket.htm