Exam Board: AQA
Units of Study:
AQA History: Understanding the Modern World
AQA History: Migration, Empires and the People
AQA GCSE History: Norman England 1066-c1100
Exams: 2 exam papers of 2 hours each
Lessons: 48 x 1 hour 30 minute lessons.
This GCSE requires a love of history and an interest in how and why things are as they are today. History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
This unit focuses on the push west of the USA under the power of technology, the hunger for gold and manifest destiny. This unit encompasses the civil war, slavery and the lifestyle, culture (and ultimate genocide) of the Indigenous American populations.
This unit concentrates on the struggle between Communism and democracy in the Korean and Vietnam wars. How were these conflicts similar and how were they different?
This unit follows the history of the movement of people both to and from Britain from Anglo-Saxon times to Brexit. Medieval wars with France, waves of immigration to the UK and the rise and fall of an Empire upon which the sun never set. This topic is massive and immersive.
Norman England 1066 - c.1100 This unit starts with the Norman conquest and looks at how this dynasty formed the Britain we know today. War, murder, betrayal and accountancy. All the major themes will be studied. This unit also looks at an historic site in the form of the battlefield at Hastings where the Normans made their mark.
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These classes are interactive and allow students to communicate directly with the tutor and each other.
12 months
Curriculum:
When: Tuesdays 1.20pm to 2.50pm
First Lesson: Tuesday 4th June @ 1.20pm
Length: 12 months
Lessons: 48 x 1 hour 30 minute lessons.
Units of Study:
AQA History: Understanding the Modern World
AQA History: Migration, Empires and the People
AQA GCSE History: Norman England 1066-c1100