1VISIONARY ACADEMIC SCHOOL

HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT
HISTORY SCHEME OF WORK (IGCSE)
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WEEK
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CONTENT COVERED

TOPIC: MAKING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Objectives : Students should be able to:
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REFERENCE
Living through
History Bk2
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Understanding who the rulers of England were (Tudors and Stuarts)

Explain the relationship between religion and the people.

- Discuss Henry VIII and the break with the Pope.

- Describe the fall for the great Monastry-Foutains Abbey
- Explain how Protestantism was strengthened Edward VI
- Discuss the bloody Mary or Misunderstood Mary
- Describe how the church settled. Elizabeth I.
- Explain the Elizabeth family crisis the Kytsons
TOPIC: PARLIAMENT
Objectives; Students should be able to:
Explain how more power was given to people
- Describe the various images of Elizabeth (Unit Trial Exams on
contents taught)
TOPICS: TOWN AND COUNTRYSIDE
Objectives: students should be able to:
- Describe the life in the towns and country side.
- Discuss medicine during the Elizabeth time
- Explain how the poor and sturdy beggars were treated.
- Discuss how trade and piracy took place
- Describe the theater for all.
- Discuss the murder mystery of Christopher Marlowe
TOPIC: RELIGION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTUARY
Objectives: Students should be able to
- Understand various religious of the seventh century.

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REMARKS

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Discuss the church matters during Charles I and James I

Describe the Catholics protest; Gun powder plot of 1605
Explain the puxitans protest. The pilgrim fathers 1620

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REVISION OF EXAMS

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END OF TERM 1 EXAMS

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TOPICS: CHRISTENDOM
Objectives: students should be able to:
- Discuss the wisest fool in Christendom James I
- Explain way the civil war occurred
- Understand why Parliamentarians won
- Explain why the king had to die
- Describe Oliver Crown well: protector or Dictator
- Explain why the World turned upside down
- Discuss the death that took place in the church yard The levelers
- Describe the life of Elizabeth Dysart: Double Agent or loyal royalist
- Explain the Act of settlement
TOPIC: THE CONQUERED LAND
Objectives; students should be able to:
- Explain how IRELAND was conquered
Discuss the union of Kingdom: Scotland and England
TOPICS: WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT
Objectives; students should be able to:
- Explain the witches in England and how to hunt
them down
- Describe the plague that affected all the houses.
- Discuss the five that burned London in 1666
- Explain how Britain became an Empire
- Describe Daniel Defoe: A man of many parts
TOPIC: THE BLACK PEOPLE IN BRITAIN
Objectives; Students should be able to
- Discuss the life of the Black people in Britain
(Unit trial Exam on the contents taught)
TOPIC: BLACK PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAS

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- Discuss what freedom is
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Describe the invisible people of America

TOPIC; AFRICA
Objectives; students should be able to:
- Describe the people of Africa
- Explain the first contact between the Africans and the outside World
- Discuss the story of Olaudah Equiano
- Explain what happened to the slaves on arrival to the West Indies and

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TOPIC; THE WAR OF IDEPENDENCE

Objectives ; students should be able to
- Discuss how people of America wanted Independence from the British
- Describe the states: slaves states and dive states.
- Explain the various views of slavery; should slavery be abolished.
- Explain the RESISTANCE OF THE BLACK Americans: Passive and

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violent resistance
- Describe how slaves escaped from the southern states.
- Discuss what it was like to be a slave
TOPICS: THE CIVIL WAR
Objectives; students should be able to:
- Discuss the civil war tat took place in America.
- Explain life through the Civil war
- Understand the steps formed and steps back after the Emancipation

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proclamation
- Life after the civil war
TOPIC; MISSED CHANCES
Objectives; students should be able to
- Explain the missed chances; competition between white and black.

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Describe the black people of progress.

Discuss the life of the black people during bad times during the

depression
Discuss the separation that took place in America.
Describe the reasons why black people moved from Clarksdale to

Chicago
Explain the black protest in the 1950s and 1960s

Discuss the children under five (Little Rack nine school)

Describe how the blacks to made a difference in America

TOPICS: BLACK PROTEST

Objectives; students should be able to
- Describe the black protest of 1960. They are not your friends.
- Black Riots in America and America now.

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