Summary:
SHP History is a major new book-per-year course for Key Stage 3 History. It takes the best of the old and the best of the new to create a dynamic and coherent course for a new generation of history pupils.

This is the second book in the series and provides a course for Y8 continuing the big stories of Empire, Movement and Settlement, Conflict, Power and Everyday Life that run throughout the course, and providing in depth enquiries on the key aspects of early modern England, industrialisation, popular protest, as well as the Spanish Empires in the New World, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

This is the teacher's book to support the Y8 Pupil's Book providing:
a) advice on implementing the new curriculum including advice on assessment
b) lesson plans for all topics
c) worksheets to support all main tasks
Lesson plans and worksheets are also available on the CD included with the book

• A teacher's book to support a major new course for National Curriculum history from the leading body for history curriculum development
• Guidance on course planning around Big Stories and themes for the revised National Curriculum
• Worksheets to support all the major tasks in the associated Pupil's Book
• Includes a CD which provides all the planning documents and worksheets as PDF documents for on demand printing and to load on a school VLE or network
• Provides alternative strategies for further varying learning styles - in particular how to use active learning techniques to promote kinaesthetic learning.
• Links to Ian Dawson's highly praised and free Active Learning website ThinkingHistory.co.uk

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Overview of this course
Ten reasons to use this course
Key features of the revised National Curriculum
How SHP History covers the revised National Curriculum
Using this material in the classroom
Assessment
LESSON SEQUENCE PLANS
Introduction - overview
1 The book with no name
Section 1 - overview
2 Ordinary lives 1500-1750
3 What did the Industrial Revolution do for us? 1750-1850
4 A better time for all? Ordinary life 1850-1900
Section 2 - overview
5 The Spanish Empire
6 The British Empire and the slave trade
7 The British Empire
Section 3 - overview
8 Movement and settlement into the unknown: were all emigrants brave and adventurous?
Section 4 - overview
9 Invasion attempts
10 Which wars? A quick history of war and peace
Section 5 - overview
11 Would you have signed Charles I's death warrant?
12 The Royal Rollercoaster
13 Hero or villain? Why do reputations change over time?
Section 6 - overview
14 How can you change things for the better?
15 Winning the vote in nineteenth-century Britain
16 How did the Chartists try to win the vote?
Conclusion - overview
17 What have you learned this year?
Progression in key concepts from Year 7 to Year 8
ACTIVITY SHEETS

Readership:
Teachers of Y8 pupils