Knowledge & Understanding

Subject Specific Literacy Development

Composites (Bigger Picture)

Components (Key Concepts)

Wider reading

Key Vocabulary
Half Term 1

1920’s USA

 

Were the 1920’s in the USA really ‘roaring’?

Prohibition and Gangs
Half Term 2

The Dictators

 

How similar were Stalin and Hitler?

  • Communism

  • Life in USSR

  • Life under Stalin’s rule

  • Censorship & Propaganda

  • Life in Germany

  • Life under Hitler’s rule

Was Stalin a paranoid megalomaniac?

  • Censorship 

  • Communism 

  • Dictator Fascism 

  • Gestapo Gulag 

  • NKVD

  • Purge
Half Term 3

The Second World War

 

How was World War Two different to World War One?

  • Causes of WW2

  • The Home Front

  • The role of women

  • Battles

  • Technological Developments

Who was Winston Churchill?

  • Blitzkrieg 

  • Censorship 

  • Evacuation Home 

  • Front Home 

  • Guard Morale 

  • Propaganda 

  • Rationing
Half Term 4

The Holocaust

 

Why should we remember the Holocaust?

  • Anti-Semitism

  • Nazi Anti-Semitism

  • Ghettos

  • Final Solution

  • Jews Resistance

  • Remembering the Holocaust

Franks Story – Life in a Ghetto

  • Anti-Semitism 

  • Auschwitz Final Solution

  • Genocide

  • Ghettos 

  • Liberation Mein 

  • Kampf 

  • Persecution
Half Term 5

Great Britain

 

What was Great Britain like in the Twentieth Century?

  • Suffrage for all

  • General Strike

  • Welfare Policies

  • Immigration

  • Reform

  • Culture through the decades

Transforming the State

  • General Strike 

  • Immigrant 

  • Migration 

  • Nationalise 

  • Suffrage Trade 

  • Union Welfare 

  • State Windrush
Half Term 6

Terrorism

 

Does terrorism work?

  • Terrorism Organisations

  • Reasons for Terrorism

  • Acts of Terrorism

  • Changes in Terrorism

September 11th?

  • Extremism 

  • Propaganda 

  • Radicalisation 

  • Terrorist 

  • Terrorism