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I am a History Teacher with a love for producing high quality and easily accessible history lessons, which I have accumulated and adapted throughout my teaching career.

I am a History Teacher with a love for producing high quality and easily accessible history lessons, which I have accumulated and adapted throughout my teaching career.
Slave Rebellion and Resistance
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Slave Rebellion and Resistance

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Slave Rebellion and Resistance Lo: Explain how enslaved people resisted & revolted against slavery and evaluate their success in regaining freedom. Key words: Mutiny Rebellion Revolt Maroon Spirituals included: lesson ppt with all instructions. Work sheet hand out. The students learn about the various types of resistance and revolt against slavery. They are to then evalute which they think is the most effective way to gain freedom and end slavery.
Murder at Kirk O’ Field
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Murder at Kirk O’ Field

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Murder at Kirk O’ Field- L.O. – To investigate a historical mystery Included- All you need to run a historical murder mystery lesson about the suspicious murder of Lord Darnley. The powerpoint, the sources and the suspect profiles. This lesson is not only fantastic fun, but excellent practice of key historical skills such as critically analysing sources, constructing evidence and making substantiated conclusions. enjoy!
What is the legacy of slavery?
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What is the legacy of slavery?

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What is the Legacy of slavery? LO: To know the long term and short term impact of slavery. Evaluate the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. fully resourced (Powerpoint presentation) fully editable answers included differentiated key words This lesson outlines the short term and long term legacies of slavery. Students use historical skills such as inference, significance and practice writing PEE paragraphs. Long term legacies are shown such as the systemic racism in American history which remains today. Examples of segregation, lynching and Black Lives Matter. This lesson has plenty of opportunities for great discussion and really demonstrates why we study the transatlantic slave trade and why it is so important that we do not forget our histories.
What was Africa like before the transatlantic slave trade?
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What was Africa like before the transatlantic slave trade?

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LO: To know what life was like in West Africa before the transatlantic slave trade and evaluate its impact on the people. Key words: Inference Enslaved Legacy empire The lesson starts with learning about life in the West African kingdom of Benin through artifacts and sources. The students practice making inferences. the worksheet has two sides one with the artifacts images and one with an Equiano written source to take inferences from. Then the teacher explains the lasting impact of the trans Atlantic slave trade had on the Benin Kingdom and Nigeria today. The latter part of the lesson is about the loss of artifacts and culture caused by the slave trade and questions-should the artifacts in the European museums give them back to their home lands? There is a newspaper task where students research and write about an artifact that has or should be returned in the last 5 years.
Transatlantic Slave Trade Map
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Transatlantic Slave Trade Map

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Here are two different downloadable versions of the transatlantic slave trade triangle map to label. One has all the the countries labeled and requires students to add what was traded along the route. The second map has no labels and requires students to add continents and what is traded.
Who was the Nine Day Queen? (Lady Jane Grey)
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Who was the Nine Day Queen? (Lady Jane Grey)

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LO: To know who Lady Jane Grey was and explain why she was Queen for 9 days. Included: powerpoint with clear instructions, reading hand out. The presentation has key words, AFL, stretch and challenge elements, comprehension activity and moments for class discussion to extend the learning. The students will learn who LJG was, how she came to be on the English throne and why Mary had her beheaded. Discussion questions such as; Was LJG right to sit on the throne? Who was the legitimate heir? Was Mary right to have her beheaded? Was LJG a victim of her fathers decisions and forced into taking the crown?
What was Africa like before and after the slave trade?
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What was Africa like before and after the slave trade?

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fully resourced- includes slides and hand outs fully editable aimed at KS3 powerpoint presentations and word docs differentiated, support and challenge AFL opportunities think, pair, share discussion points 3 lessons What was Africa like before the transatlantic slave trade? (Benin Kingdom) What was the impact of slavery on Africa (Songhai empire) What is the legacy of slavery? (short term and long term legacies)
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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A full SOW with all powerpoints and hand outs included. Key words, support and challenge questions in each lesson. This SOW is aimed at developing essential historical skills such as source work, significance, interpretations and more while teaching the history of slavery in an accurate and well researched manner. Its intent is to develop an understanding of key second order concepts while gaining a knowledge of a significant part of world history. The lessons are: What part did Britain plan in the transatlantic slave trade? What was the impact of slavery on Africa? (Benin case study) What was the impact of slavery on Africa? (Songhai case study) Triangle trade and horrors of the middle passage Slaves lives in the Americas (Auction) Life on the plantations The Road to Abolition How slavery was abolished Rebellion and Resistance What is the legacy of slavery?
Aims of the Big Three: Did they get what they wanted?
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Aims of the Big Three: Did they get what they wanted?

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This lesson is fully resourced, completely editable. Answers included on slides. Challenge, support, differentiated activities. The lesson should take an estimated 1 hour. It was designed for IGCSE history course but would also work well with any GCSE history class studying the treaty of Versailles. LO: to be able to know, describe and explain what the ‘Big Three’ wanted at the Treaty of Versailles. The lesson activities follow the Learning objective by introducing the Big Three, who they were and what their aims were and the reasoning behind them.
How did the underground railroad work?
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How did the underground railroad work?

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How did the underground railroad work? LO: to know what the underground railroad was and describe how it functioned. fully resourced fully adaptable differentiated answers included stretch and challenge powerpoint presentation and hand out included about an hours lesson discussion and AFL points This lesson begins explaining what the underground railroad was including its purpose, its routes and why it was necessary. There is a task based on a graph showing the routes to freedom from the south to the north (answers included) . There is also a reading task with knowledge check questions (answers included). There are challenge questions to stretch the most able. Then follows think and discuss key questions. Then a few of the heros of the underground railroad are introduced like Tubman, Wilson and Meachum. Then the plenary is a true and false section with answers included.
What was England like before 1066?
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What was England like before 1066?

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What was England like before 1066? LO: To be able to describe life in Anglo Saxon England. This pack include: Homework activity sheet, digital reading print out, presentation with instructions for each activity. Support and challenge questions for each activity, assessment for learning points, discussion points and meaningful activities.
What part did Britain play in the transatlantic slave trade?
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What part did Britain play in the transatlantic slave trade?

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A lesson based around how Britain became involved in the slave trade and its impact on Britain. LO: To understand the importance of the transatlantic slave trade in Britain’s growing wealth and power between the 16th and 19th centuries. Begins with a starter showing the removal of Colstons statue in Bristol 2020 to demonstrate that the subject of slavery is relevant and important today. Then the slides go on to explain how Britain became involved with the transatlantic slave trade. Includes an adapted extract from Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams. Then discussions and activities based around the impact slavery had on Britain. Included: ALL FULLY EDITABLE powerpoint and hand out Answers included differentiated activities
Why was slavery abolished?
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Why was slavery abolished?

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Why was slavery abolished? LO: to analyse the different interpretations for why slavery was abolished. Key words: popular movement Nonconformist Petition boycott Interpretations lesson: This lesson comes with the powerpoint and hand out outlining the 3 different interpretations of why slavery ended. It lends itself to debate among students and is a great way to help them develop their explaining and reasoning skills.
Slave Rebellion and Resistance (2 lessons)
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Slave Rebellion and Resistance (2 lessons)

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fully resourced fully editable differentiated answers included two lesson powerpoints and word docs included. differentiated stretch and challenge AFL and discussion points One lesson on what the underground railroad was and how it functioned, heroes of the railroad. Activities include inference from an image, understanding a diagram of routes, reading comprehension, challenge questions and discussion points. Lesson 2: students will explain how enslaved people resisted & revolted against slavery and evaluate their success in regaining freedom. listen to slave spirituals, sort and categorise methods of resistance and evaluate which were the most effective and how do we measure their success.
Newspaper Template Pack (10+ different styles and layouts)
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Newspaper Template Pack (10+ different styles and layouts)

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-Really useful newspaper templates for all sorts of lessons KS2,3,4. -Included: 8 different styles of Newspaper template. Styles included: Generic: The Observer, The Medieval times, The Tudor Times, Elizabethan news, Norman Observer, Roman Record, The British Home Front, The Red Republican. All with the correct currency for each time period. Fully adaptable as they are all Word documents. -3 different layouts. -additional 3 PDF designs: Tudor times, Roman Times and Norman Digest. (these three and not editable).
The triangle trade and the horrors of the Middle Passage
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The triangle trade and the horrors of the Middle Passage

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The triangle trade and the horrors of the Middle Passage LO: know how the trade triangle operated and use sources to describe the conditions of the Middle Passage. This resource has a full powerpoint, reading acitvity print out, slave triangle print out, differentiated activities, engaging starter, AFL points, challenge questions and a plenary. All resources are fully editable.
Was Lawrence of Arabia a hero?
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Was Lawrence of Arabia a hero?

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A complete lesson about Lawrence of Arabia and his accomplishments. The students will learn who he is, what he accomplished and evaluate if he should be considered a hero. LO: To know who Laurence of Arabia was and use evidence to decide if he deserves the title ‘hero’. Included: Lesson powerpoint, reading task print out (high and low ability) and card sort activity. Fully editable as they are Word and PowerPoint Differentiated activities Answer slides Time: between 1hour and 1.30 depending on class
What was life like on the plantations?
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What was life like on the plantations?

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What was life like on the plantations? LO: to know what life was like on plantations and describe the different experiences of enslaved people. This lesson informs about the lives of the enslaved people on the plantations. The roles they had, living accomodation, punishments, differences between field and house slaves. There are reading tasks with handouts included and editable. Challenge activities, key words and writing task. Differentiated tasks and AFL.
Ask an Expert (classroom tool)
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Ask an Expert (classroom tool)

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I use ‘‘Ask an expert’’ badges in lessons as a great way to challenge the most able and encourage students to ask each other for help. How it works: once some students have completed a task, the teacher checks their answers and then the students become the experts. They take an expert badge and walk around the room helping other students with the task. I like to use lanyards to put the badge in, but it works the same if the students simply holds the expert badge. In this download I have included 6 different style badges.
Tudor Queens
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Tudor Queens

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Included: 3 powerpoints all with clear instructions, key words, hand outs/work sheets, clear Learning Objectives, AFL opportunities, stretch and challenge. Three lessons: Who was the nine day queen? (A lesson design to investigate who Lady Jane Grey was, how she ended up on the throne and why Mary had her beheaded.) Does Mary deserve the nickname ‘Bloody Mary’? A lesson where we learn who she was, what she did and if her actions mean she is deserving of the nickname . It includes use of historical sources and practice constructing PEE paragraphs. Why do we remember Queen Elizabeth? Here we learn who she was and her main accomplishments. The students evaluate which are her most significant accomplishments and question why she is remembered.