Year 8 History

Year 8History

Term of Study

Topic Covered

Assessments

Autumn Term

• Who were the key people who lived in the American West?
• What can Kunte Kinte tell us about the Slave Trade?

• The American West

Spring Term

• Who was the real hero of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA?
• Should the British Empire be a source of national pride?

• Civil Rights

Summer Term

• How did the early industrialists embody the spirit of the age?
• Slums, smog and sewers? What was the big story of change, 1745-1901?

• Factory Workers