KS3 Long Term Overview: Year 8 for 2007-8
Subject: History
Autumn Term 2007
Half Term 2 – 18 lessons
Working for the man –
development study
Unit Focus: How has the nature of
work changed over the past 2000
years?
1, Slavery – from Rome to Roots to
Romanians
2. From the English village to children
in the factories and mines
ICCU: Slavery multimedia presentation
project
ECCU: Children at work in industrial
revolution
Homework Projects – ‘Greater Londinium’ – How has London changed in the past 2000 years
British, Roman and Medieval London Plague, Fire and Empire
Year 8
Spring Term 2008 Summer Term 2008
Half Term 2 – 18 lessons Half Term 2 – 18 lessons
Pirates, Pipes and Potatoes – People at Play – DEVELOPMENT
depth study STUDY
Unit Focus: How did the discovery Unit focus: How has sport, leisure
of the New World change our and entertainment changed over
lives? 2000 years?
1. Arenas of Action – from the Roman
1. Columbus Games to Wembley Stadium
2. Pirates 2. Bums on seats – Theatre, Opera,
Music Halls, Cinema, TV, Eating Out…
3. Mass emigration to the New World
3. Holidays through time – from Roman
Villas/Baths to Cheap Flights to Rome
London expands, immigration,
Olympics