| Autumn 1 (Sept – Oct) | Autumn 2 (Nov – Dec) | Spring 1 (Jan – Feb) | Spring 2 (Mar – Apr) | Summer (May – Jun) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Topic Title | ‘1. African Kingdoms’ | ‘2. The slave trade’ | ‘3. The French and Haitian Revolutions’ | ‘4. Empire’ | ‘5. Industrial Revolution’ | ||
| Key Skills and Content | • What makes a civilisation advanced? | • What was the slave trade? | • Inequality, enlightenment and the causes of revolution. | • Why build an Empire? | • How did empire lead to industry? | ||
| • What are the challenges of learning about African History? | • How did the slave trade profit slave owners and boost economies dependent on it? | • Challenges in maintaining a new order. | • Exploitation of Empire. | • How did slavery benefit industrialists? | |||
| • How advanced were the kingdoms of Mali, Benin, Great Zimbabwe and Kilwa | • The life of enslaved people. | • Napoleon. | • Case Studies: India, America, China | • How did industry change everything? | |||
| • The abolition of the slave trade. | • Haiti | • Who did empire benefit? | • Jack the Ripper | ||||
| Evidence | Consequence | Causation | Historical Interpretations | Continuity and Change | |||
| Summative | History Project 1 | History Project 2 | History Project 3 | History Project 4 | History Project 5 | ||
| Assessment | Create Museum exhibition / travel pamphlet / diary of explorer | Extended writing | Extended writing | Extended writing | Extended writing |
