136·History · Key Stage 3
Year 9 History
Scheme of Work
Year 9 History Scheme of Work — KS3 PDF
Six half-termly units across one academic year. The twentieth century is given the time it needs rather than a fortnight, and the key stage closes with an enquiry the student frames, plans and answers for themselves.
- 1aThe Vote: How Democratic Had Britain Become by 1918?
- 1bEmpire and India: What Did Rule Mean, and to Whom?
- 2a1914: Why Did a Crisis in the Balkans Become a World War?
- 2bBetween the Wars: Why Did People Vote for Dictators?
- 3aThe Holocaust: How Did It Become Possible?
- 3bSince 1945: How Far Has Britain Changed — and How Would You Find Out?
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. One row per phase rather than per lesson. Six units: the franchise, empire in India, the origins of the First World War, the inter-war dictatorships, the Holocaust, and Britain since 1945.
The Holocaust is the one thing the programme of study requires by name, and it is taught differently from every other unit here, deliberately. It is built on sequence and assessed on sequence, because the misconception that does real harm is that it happened suddenly. There is no role-play, no simulation and no imaginative writing from any perspective; no images of the dead; and the unit begins with Jewish life in Europe before 1933, so that victims are studied as people with lives. Teachers are pointed at the national memorial and education institutions whose materials exist for this and are free.
Year 9 is not the start of GCSE. No specification content is taught, no board's wording is used and no essay is written to a mark scheme — what the year does is make the intellectual demands of GCSE ordinary on unfamiliar content. Every date is checked against a verified chronology at build time, estimates are printed as estimates, and the coverage matrix at the back distinguishes what the programme of study requires from what it offers as an example.
- Written to The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 history (DfE, 2013)
- Intended for heads of history, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent 59 pages · 23 sections
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