Year 9 - History

Unit 1 – CSI LONDON – Who killed these women?

• What problems did 19th Century London face?

Unit 2 – Did the Empire make Britain Great?

• Race for the Empire. How tobacco, sugar & tea gripped the world.
• How great was the British Empire? What put the Great into Great Britain? Who benefited from the British Empire? (Australia, America & India)
• Was the Empire good for everyone?

Unit 3 – Children in the mills

• What was life like for children working in the mills?
• Child Punishments
• Robert Owen – was life all bad for children in the mills?
• Reform.

Unit 4 – The Shocking slave trade

• What was the Slave trade?
• The Middle Passage
• Slave auctions
• Life on a plantation
• Slave Punishments
• How large a role did the Isle of Man play as part of the Slave Trade?
• Slavery abolition and reform.

Unit 3 – Children in the Mills Assessment – “Children in the mills did more harm than good”

Skills; Enquiry based, Knowledge, developing explanation and judgement skills.

Unit 4 – Slavery assessment

Skills: Knowledge recall, Source analysis

Unit 5 War & Warfare: First World War

• Why did the Great War break out?
• The Tommie’s experience of WWI-
• Propaganda
• Recruitment
• Life in the Trenches
• The Somme
• General Haig – Butcher or Hero of the Somme?
• Why not a war to end all wars? Peace

Unit 6 – interwar years/ WWII and Holocaust

• Treaty of Versailles
• League of nations
• Road to war
• Communism Vs Capitalism
• Dunkirk
• Isle of Man role in WWII
• Holocaust
• Atomic bomb

Unit 6 – Dunkirk - Was Dunkirk a triumph or defeat?

Skills: Cause and consequence. Interpretation, understanding evidence.