Paper 2 (Option 24/25)

Option 24/25: The American West, c1835–c1895

Key topic 1: The early settlement of the West, c1835–c1862

• The Plains Indians: their beliefs and way of life
• Migration and early settlement
• Conflict and tension

Key topic 2: Development of the plains, c1862–c1876

• The development of settlement in the West
• Ranching and the cattle industry
• Changes in the way of life of the Plains Indians

Target: Analysis of second order concepts: consequence;

Knowledge and understanding of features and characteristics.

Target: Analytical narrative (i.e. analysis of causation/consequence/ change);

Target: Analysis of second order concepts: consequence/significance;

Paper 2 (Option 24/25)

Option 24/25: The American West, c1835–c1895

Key topic 3: Conflicts and conquest, c1876–c1895

• Changes in farming, the cattle industry and settlement
• Conflict and tension
• The Plains Indians: the destruction of their way of life

Target: Analysis of second order concepts: consequence/significance;

Knowledge and understanding of features and characteristics

Paper 2 (Option B3)

Option B3: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509–40

Key topic 1: Henry VIII and Wolsey, 1509–29

• Henry VIII, Renaissance Prince
• The rise of Wolsey and his policies
• Wolsey’s foreign policy
• Wolsey, Catherine, the succession and annulment

Key topic 2: Henry VIII and Cromwell, 1529–40

• Cromwell’s rise to power, 1529–34
• Cromwell, and the king’s marriages
• Cromwell and government, 1534–40
• The fall of Cromwell

Target: Knowledge of key features and characteristics of the period.

Target: Analysis and evaluation of second order concepts: causation

Paper 2 (Option B3)

Option B3: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509–40

Key topic 3: The Reformation and its impact, 1529–40

• The break with Rome
• Opposition to, and impact of, Reformation, 1534–40 The dissolution of the monasteries
• The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536

Target: Analysis and evaluation of second order concepts: change;

Knowledge and understanding of features and characteristics.

Paper 1 (Option 11)

Medicine in Britain, c1250–present

c1250–c1500: Medicine in medieval England/ c1500–c1700: The Medical Renaissance in England

• Medieval Medicine – ideas about causes of disease
• Medieval Prevention and Treatment
• Black Death Case Study
• Renaissance Medicine – ideas about causes of disease

Target: Analysis of second order concepts: similarity;

Knowledge and understanding of features and characteristics of the period.

Paper 1 (Option 11)

Medicine in Britain, c1250–present

c1500–c1700: The Medical Renaissance in England/ c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain

• Vesalius and Harvey
• Hospitals and the Plague
• Jenner and vaccination
• Germ Theory – Pasteur and Koch
• Florence Nightingales and Hospitals

Target: Analysis and evaluation of second order concepts: change and continuity;

Knowledge and understanding of features and characteristics.

Target: Analysis and evaluation of second order concepts:

significance/change;

Terms

Year 11

Autumn 1

Paper 1 (Option 11)

Medicine in Britain, c1250–present 

c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain/ c1900–present: Medicine in modern Britain

• Antiseptics and Anaesthetics
• Public Health – cholera epidemic
• Modern Ideas – DNA
• Magic Bullets
• The NHS
• High Tech medicine and Surgery

Target: Analysis and evaluation of second order concepts: change and continuity;

Knowledge and understanding of features and characteristics.

Target: Analysis and evaluation of second order concepts:

Significance/change.

Autumn 2

Paper 1 (Option 11)

Medicine in Britain, c1250–present

The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches

• The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches
• Knowledge, selection and use of sources for historical enquiries

Target: Analysis and evaluation of source utility.

Target: Source analysis and use (the ability to frame historical questions).

Spring 1

Paper 3 (Option 31)

Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

Key topic 1: The Weimar Republic 1918–29

• The origins of the Republic, 1918–19
• The early challenges to the Weimar Republic, 1919–23
• The recovery of the Republic, 1924–29
• Changes in society, 1924–29

Key topic 2: Hitler’s rise to power, 1919–33

• Early development of the Nazi Party, 1920–22
• The Munich Putsch and the lean years, 1923–29.
• The growth in support for the Nazis, 1929–32
• How Hitler became Chancellor, 1932–33

Target: Knowledge of key features and characteristics of the period.

Target: Analysis of second order concepts: causation.

Spring 2

Paper 3 (Option 31)

Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

Key topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933–39

• The creation of a dictatorship, 1933–34
• The police state
• Controlling and influencing attitudes
• Opposition, resistance and conformity

Key topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39

• Nazi policies towards women
• Nazi policies towards the young
• Employment and living standards
• The persecution of minorities

Target: Knowledge of key features and characteristics of the period.

Target: Analysis of second order concepts: causation.

Target: Analysis and evaluation of source utility.

Target: Analysis of interpretations (how they differ).

Target: Analysis and evaluation of interpretations.

Summer 1

Revision

Summer 2

Examination