Year 8 Curriculum Handbook
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<strong>Year</strong> 8 History Overview<br />
Cycle 1<br />
BIG QUESTION<br />
How does a country win a war against<br />
itself?<br />
1) Who should have succeeded Elizabeth I?<br />
2) What caused the English Civil War?<br />
3) Cavalier or Roundhead?<br />
4) How did the New Model Army help<br />
Cromwell win?<br />
5) Did Charles I deserve the death sentence?<br />
6) Was Cromwell a better leader than Charles?<br />
7) Why didn’t the Interregnum work?<br />
8) Why was Charles II restored to the throne?<br />
9) How did James II end the reign of the<br />
Stuarts?<br />
Cycle 3<br />
BIG QUESTION<br />
How did Britain become Great?<br />
1) How did Britain rule a quarter of the world<br />
and its people?<br />
2) What was the Industrial Revolution?<br />
3) Which was more important, the Industrial or<br />
Agricultural revolution?<br />
4) What was it like in Edwardian Britain?<br />
5) How did the Titanic sink?<br />
6) How would the different classes of<br />
Edwardian Britain experience the Titanic?<br />
7) Who were the Suffragettes?<br />
8) WSPU (Suffragettes) or NUWSS<br />
(Suffragists)?<br />
9) How did Women gain the vote in 1918?<br />
Cycle 2<br />
BIG QUESTION<br />
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: was it right?<br />
1) What was life like back in Africa?<br />
2) How did the Slave Trade Triangle work?<br />
3) What was the journey of the slave like?<br />
4) How would it have felt at a slave auction?<br />
5) Who had the better life, a regular slave or a<br />
house slave?<br />
6) Did slaves ever resist their masters?<br />
7) How did slavery end?<br />
8) Did things change for black people once<br />
slavery ended?<br />
9) Does slavery still exist today?<br />
Cycle 4<br />
BIG QUESTION<br />
World War One: is it sweet and right to die<br />
for your country?<br />
1) What were the long-term causes for the<br />
war?<br />
2) What were the short-term causes for the<br />
war?<br />
3) The Schlieffen Plan and the War of<br />
Movement<br />
4) How were the trenches established?<br />
5) What were the conditions like in the<br />
trenches?<br />
6) How did people’s views of war change?<br />
7) What were battles like in the First World<br />
War?<br />
8) How did warfare change over the course of<br />
the war?<br />
9) How did the war come to an end?
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