Curriculum Year 7

  1. What happened in 1066? The causes, course and effects of the Battle of Hastings
  2. How did the Normans keep control? Castles, Domesday Book and the feudal system
  3. Did the events of 1066 bring significant change to England?
  4. What was the role of the medieval church? Beliefs, monasteries, convents and religious change
  5. How did the power of the king change? Magna Carta, parliament, Becket. Relations with Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
  6. What was everyday life like in medieval times? Life in towns and villages, the Peasant's Revolt, the Black Death, changes to villages and women's lives.
  7. How did warfare affect people? The Hundred Year's War and the Wars of the Roses.

Web sites

The Norman Conquest www.essentialnormanconquest.com

Domesday Book www.domesdaybook.co.uk/

Castles http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/castles/enter.html

What was it really like to live in the Middle Ages? http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/feudal.html

Black Peoples of the Americas

  1. What was life like in Africa before slavery? Benin
  2. What was it like to be taken as a slave? Nature of slavery, the triangular trade, the Middle Passage.
  3. What was slave life like? Types of plantations, slave work, living conditions, the importance of religion, music and culture.
  4. How did slaves resist? Revolt, passive resistance and the maintenance of African culture. The work of abolitionists.
  5. What was the importance of the Civil War in Black American history? Causes and events of the Civil War, the part played by Black Americans.
  6. How did slavery end? The Emancipation Protocol.
  7. How did life change for Black Americans after the Civil War? The reconstruction era, segregation and persecution. The Civil Rights movement from the 1950s. The status of black people today.

Websites
Black peoples of the Americas www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year9links/blackpeoples.html

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