Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015

Autumn Week 1.9.14 Week 8.9.14 Week 15.9.14 Week 22.9.14 Week 29.9.14
Baseline Assessment Week
Mon- Training day 1

What Was The American
West?
1. Introduction to
Geography of the west and
the Problems getting there.
2. What were the great
Plains Like? What problems
for settlers and travellers?


Attitudes of Whites
Towards The Indians
1. Cultural differences and
conflict
2. Conflict over land and the
idea of Manifest Destiny




Plain Indian Culture

1. The buffalo
2. The Tipi
Year 7 Camp

Plain Indian Culture

1. Religion
2. Warfare


1. Exam past paper on
Native American Indians






Eid- Oct 4th
Week 6.10.14 Week 13.10.14 Week 20.10.14 Week 27.10.14 Week 3.11.14

Early Settlers and
Reasons for Going West
1. Who were the Mountain
Men and why were they
important?
2. Why did early settlers go
west?
3. What was the Journey
west like?

Data Entry 1

The Mormons
1. Who were the Mormons
and why were they so
unpopular in the east?
2. The role of Joseph Smith
in the history of the
Mormons.


Thurs- Yr 7 Settling in eve

The Mormons
1. Brigham Young and the
mass movement west

2. Making a success at Salt
Lake City.


Oct term


The Mormons

1. Role of the
individual .Young
Vs Smith
2. Exam past paper on
The Mormons.

Week 10.11.14 Week 17.11.14 Week 24.11.14 Week 1.12.14 Week 8.12.14
Mon- Training day 2

GCSE Review week

Thurs- Cohort 2017
Yr 9 parents eve & option
fair
The Homesteaders
1. Introduction



The Homesteaders
1. Who were the
Homesteaders and why did
they settle on the Plains?


The Homesteaders
1. What were the problems
they faced and their
solutions to these
problems? Including the
role of women on the
Homestead


Yr 11 Mock 1 Entry

Mock examination
Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015
Spring Week 5.1.15 Week 12.1.15 Week 19.1.15 Week 26.1.15 Week 2.2.15
Data Entry 2

The Cattlemen and
Cowboys
1. The Long Drive.
Goodnight and Loving.
2. Cattle Towns. McCoy.
The Cattle Drives
3. The Open Range. Iliff.
End of the Open Range.



The Cattlemen and
Cowboys
1. The role of the cowboy
2. Conflict between
Cattlemen and
Homesteaders. The Johnson
County War.
3. Exam Questions
Thurs- Cohort 2015
Yr 11 parents eve
Law and Order
1. The reasons for
lawlessness and violence in
the West.
2. Mining towns and cattle
towns and the problem of
vigilantes.
3. Case study Billy the
Kidd. Exam Practice.


The Struggle for the
Plains
1. The situation up to 1860
2. Serious conflict. Little
Crow. Red Cloud
3. The policy of reservation
and the situation leading up
to Battle of Little Big Horn.


The struggle for the Plains
1. Reasons for and events of
The Battle of Little Big
Horn
2. Short and Long term
results of BLBH. Ghost
Dance and destruction of the
buffalo
3. Exam question Practice


Week 9.2.15 Week 16.2.15 Week 23.2.15 Week 2.3.15 Week 9.3.15


Review and Conclusion.








Feb term









Mon- Training day 3

Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West







Data Entry 3
Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West

Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West
Week 15.12.14 Week 22.12.14 Week 29.12.14

Mock Exam review week
Christmas Break
Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015
Week 16.3.15 Week 23.3.15 Week 30.3.15 Week 6.4.15 Week 13.4.15
Yr 11 Mock 2 entry
Thurs- Cohort 2018
Yr 8 parents eve

Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West

Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West






Thurs- Yr 11 Exam Clinic
Fri- Training day 4
Easter Hols Easter Hols











Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West






Week 20.4.15 Week 27.4.15 Week 4.5.15 Week 11.5.15 Week 18.5.15



Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West






Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West








Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West
Data Entry 4

Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West


Exam preparation and
revision of Medicine and
American West














Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015

Week 25.5.5.15 Week 1.6.15 Week 8.6.15 Week 15.6.5.15 Week 22.6.15
May term


Examinations

Thurs- Cohort 2016
Yr 10 parents eve




Examinations
Mon- Training day 5
Tues- Roll up





Week 29.6.15 Week 6.7.15 Week 13.7.15 Week 22.7.15 Week 29.7.15
Data Entry 5











Thurs- Cohort 2019
Yr 7 parents eve




Thurs- Start of summer