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KS4 revision/consolidation lesson for Unit 1: Sparta at War in the 5th Century BCE, from the OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE. The lesson objective is to revise and consolidate knowledge of Sparta, from the structure and organisation of Spartan society, and the education, training, recruitment of Spartan boys, to the causes, events and significance of the battle of Thermopylae.

Accessible for all ability groups and the resources are easily differentiated for more and less academically able students.

This lesson includes…

• A knowledge organiser for Unit 1, featuring summarised sections for each of the core areas on the OCR specification. For the main part of this lesson, students should directed to use the Knowledge Organiser to target the area they are least confident on and create a revision resource of their own - flashcards, revision clock etc.
• A primary source match-up activity, connecting our three sources (Plutarch, Xenophon and Herodotus) to their respective backgrounds/context and thus how reliable they are.
• Focused look at the two assessment objectives through the frame of an [8] mark practise exam question - ‘It was only because they were outnumbered that no Spartans survived the battle at Thermopylae.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Justify your response.[8] There is also a modeled exemplar of the first paragraph for this [8] mark Q.
• A 40 mark end-of-unit assessment, featuring a range of question types, with a separate visual source handout to accompany.
• Assessment instructions.
• Assessment answers document.
• Assessment self/peer-marking instructions, including modeled feedback for self-reflection.