Year 8 Curriculum Handbook

Year 8 History Overview
Year 8 History is aimed to improve on the historical skills you gained in Year 7, with an emphasis
much more on the use of historical information and your knowledge. You will be expected to use
evidence to always back up your opinions and to extend your historical knowledge beyond your
initial opinions. This will take the form of sources, which you will look at and make interpretations
from using these skills. This will help prepare you for GCSE example questions to challenge and
inspire you, and these have four areas for assessment.
AO1: Knowledge and understanding of
key figures and characteristics of a time
period.
AO2: Explain and analyse historical
events and periods.
AO3: Analyse, evaluate and use sources
in judgements.
AO4: Analyse, evaluate and make
substantiated judgements on
interpretations.
35% of your
overall mark
35% of your
overall mark
15% of your
overall mark
15% of your
overall mark
This means looking at the
most important people and
aspects of our topics.
This means looking at the
most important things that
happened in our topics.
This means using pictures and
documents to learn more and
make conclusions about our
topics.
This means using the views of
important historians and
historical people to learn
more and make conclusions
on our topics.
To be a good historian, you also need to be a good COP!
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