Year 9 - History

Term

Programme of study

Key assessment tasks

Autumn

Unit 1 – Jack the Ripper

• Victorian London
• Whitechapel
• The victims of Jack the Ripper
• The murders
• The suspects

Unit 2 War & Warfare:First World War

• Why did the Great War break out?
• The Tommie’s experience of WWI-
• Propaganda
• Recruitment

Unit 1 assessment – Who was Jack the Ripper?

Unit 2 Assessment 1: Causes of WW1

Skills: Knowledge recall

Spring

Unit 2 War & Warfare:First World War

• Life in the Trenches
• The Somme
• General Haig – Butcheror Hero of the Somme?
• Why not a war to end all wars

Unit 3 – 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 2 Assessment 2: Which source is most useful in understanding why General Haig was known as “The Butcher”?

Skills: Interpretation, Judgement skills, understanding evidence

Summer

Unit 3 – interwar years/ WWII and Holocaust

• Holocaust
• Atomic bomb

Unit 3 Assessment 2– Was the atomic bomb justified?