Year 8 - History

Unit 1 -The Tudors

• The War of the Roses
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• Elizabeth I

Unit 2: The Stuarts

• King James and the gunpowder plot
• Charles I and the Civil War
• Oliver Cromwell
• Charles II and the Great Fire of London
• The Glorious Revolution and the Making of the UK

Unit 2 Assessment: The Stuarts- multichoice and extended answer

Skills: Understanding evidence, Cause and consequence, chronology

Unit 3: Witchcraft

• What is a witch?
• Identifying witches and Matthew Hopkins
• Why was there a witch craze?

Unit 4- The British Empire

• What is an empire?
• The beginning of the British Empire
• British Explorers
• How did Britain benefit from the empire?
• Case Studies: Sikhs, Tasmania, America
• Current debates on the British Empire

Unit 4 Assessment: Was the British Empire all bad?

Skills: interpretation, understanding evidence, change and continuity

Unit 5- Native Americans

• Who were the Native Americans
• Christopher Columbus
• Tribes
• The Buffalo
• Native Americans v Settlers