Year 7: Three-year Scheme of Work Half-term: Autumn 2 Unit title: Life in Medieval England (alternative to Medieval Religion) Weeks 8—11 Enquiry question: What was everyday life like in medieval England? Content details Links to Edexcel GCSE (9–1) History Progression scale focus Target understanding for all students Additional understanding for some students Extra stretch understanding End of half-term assessment will cover Week 8 * Village life * Life in towns * Differences between rich and poor (reinforcing feudal system), including villeins and cottars Context for: * Anglo-Saxon and Norman England * The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216 Evidence Target Step 4 Stretch to Step 5 Chronology Historical vocabulary Evidence Step 4: Learners appreciate that historians need to interrogate sources to work out what happened in the past. Evidence Step 4: Learners comment on the reliability of sources (‘biased’ may be used as a catch-all term) but have little understanding of how historians build an evidence picture. Causation and consequence Step 4: Learners can identify a number of causes and are beginning to categorise these into different types or groups of causes, e.g. short-term and Evidence Step 5: Learners can distinguish between information about the past and evidence that historians extract from sources through a process of interrogation in order to support their claims, i.e. I can suggest that X was important because of evidence Y and Z. Evidence Step 5: Learners make generalised references to provenance (e.g. ‘sources from witnesses are more reliable’). Evidence Step 6: Learners use sources to make simple inferences about the past and are beginning to understand that historians gather evidence by interrogating information with a particular purpose. Week 9 * Health and diet * Sources of food: farming, hunting and trade * Staple food and drink (rich and poor) * Theories of illness (humours, punishment from God) Context for: * Anglo-Saxon and Norman England * The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216 Evidence Target Step 4 Stretch to Step 5
or ‘things to do with money’. Analytical narrative: Learners understand what analytical narrative is in the context of changes in the legal system in the medieval period. Week 10 * Early medieval trials: ordeals by water, iron or battle * Punishments * Development of the English legal system: Henry II’s reforms Context for: * Anglo-Saxon and Norman England * The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216 Causation and consequence Target Step 4 Evidence Target Step 6 Analytical narrative (introduction) Week 11 * Sports for rich and poor, including football * Entertainment, including mystery plays Context for: * Anglo-Saxon and Norman England * The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216 Causation and consequence Target Step 4 Stretch to Step 5 Weeks 12–13 Enquiry question: Why could no one ignore the Church? Week 12 * Belief in afterlife * Role of priests * Effects on behaviour, including pilgrimage * Role of church in education and health Context for: * Anglo-Saxon and Norman England * The reigns of King Richard I Causation and consequence Target Step 4 Stretch to Step 5 Causation and consequence Step 4: Learners can identify a number of causes and are beginning to categorise these into different types or Causation and consequence Step 5: Learners can categorise causes with some confidence and are beginning to Structuring and organising knowledge Step 3: Learners can begin to construct simple stories about the past using what they have been taught.
and King John, 1189–1216 groups of causes, e.g. short-term and or ‘things to do with money’. (Reinforced) Causation and consequence Step 4: Learners understand consequence as the fixed result of all the possible causes and may regard the idea of consequences as inevitable or the only possible outcome. recognise that these groupings of causal factors are interrelated, e.g. a poor harvest can have effects on both the economy and society. Week 13 * Why did people choose to become monks and nuns? * Features of life for a medieval monk and nun * Role of monasteries: books, medicine and charity Context for: * Anglo-Saxon and Norman England * The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216 Evidence Target Step 4 Stretch to Step 5 Stretch to Step 6