History Department
Y8 Summary of Indicative Content
For detailed discussion of the content of the Y8 scheme of work refer to the adapted QCA schemes of work for Units 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10. As a quick guide to content and a possible ordering of the units, however, the following may be useful:
Unit |
Title |
Lessons |
Indicative Content |
5 |
Elizabeth I |
c.15 |
Religious problems of Henry VIII Catholics and Puritans Lutheran reformation Edward VI and ‘Bloody’ Mary Mary Queen of Scots Phillip of Spain and the Armada Elizabeth and marriage The Elizabethan Poor Law Postscript: James I and the Gunpowder Plot |
7 |
Portraits of the past |
c.3 |
Portraits of Elizabeth and other key figures in 1500-1750 |
8 |
Civil War |
c.15 |
Causes of the Civil War (e.g. personal rule, Ship Money, prayer book controversy, Short Parliament, etc.) Marston Moor Naseby New Model Army Trial and execution of Charles I Commonwealth and Protectorate Restoration |
9 |
Glorious Revolution to the ‘45 |
c.7 |
Glorious revolution Act of Union Jacobite rebellions (1715, 1745) |
10 |
France 1789–94: and Napoleon |
c.20 |
Causes of revolution Enlightenment Three estates Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Financial crisis Tennis Court Oath Storming of the Bastille Flight to Varennes Execution of Louis Robespierre Terror Thermidor Napoleon |
