History

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Year 7 Project Work
Year 8 & 9 Project Work

History is one of the humanities taught in the academy. It has increasingly become a popular subject in the last five years. Apart from students attending lessons within their classrooms, the department engages them in various activities such as tripsand exciting project based research once a year per year group from years 7 to 9.

TOPIC OUTLINE 2010-2011 ACADEMIC YEAR

YEAR 7

TERM1

1. Introduction to History

2. Sources of History

3. Government / emphasis on Kenya government

TERM 2

I . The origin of man / emphasis on evolution theory

2. Medieval England

TERM 3

I. The reign of kings

2. Life in medieval England

3. The Black Death

4. The peasant revolt

Year 8

TERM I

The Tudor Period

v     Political social and religious set up during the Tudor period

v     The War of Roses

v     The Battle of Bosworth

v     The Tudor Rose

v     The church in 1 500

v     Protestantism

TERM 2

v     Henry VIII (Religious changes during his reign)

v     His marriages

v     Closing down of the monasteries

v     Religious changes during Edward VI

v     Religious changes during Mary I

v     Religious changes during Elizabeth I

v     The catholic plot

v     The Spanish armada

v     The Tudor Parliaments

TERM 3

v     The Stuart period

v     Religions in the 17^th C

v     How Stuarts of Scotland came to rule England

v     James I

v     Charles I

v     The English Civil war

v     The ship money tax

v     The rump parliament

v     Oliver Cromwell

YEAR 9

TERM I

1. Britain gains an empire

2. Colonization / India and Australia

3. The Irish famine

4. The agrarian revolution

TERM 2

1. The industrial revolution

2. The French revolution

3. France under napoleon

TERM 3

1. The First World War

2. The treaty of Versailles

3. The rise of dictators

Year 10

Term I

I. Autocracy and revolt in Russia 1855 1917 – an introduction.

2. Problems of Russia by 1900

3. Alexander II’s policies.

4. Alexander III reactionary

5. The growth of terrorism in Russia

6. Russia under Nicholas II

Term II

1. The 1905 revolution

2. The impact of the first world war on Russia.

3. Germany – A 3 dictatorship 1919 1945

4. The treaty of Versailles

5. The Weimar Republic

Term III

1. The Weimar Republic (a continuation)

2. The rise of Hitler and the Nazis.

3. The Nazi consolidation of power

4. Life in Nazi Germany

5. Germany and the Second World War.

YEAR 11

TERM I

1. Russia in revolution

2. Communism revolution

3. War communism

4. The setting up of the United Nations

TERM 2

1. The structure of the United Nations

2. The UN agencies

3. The UN peacekeeping

4. Revision – past papers

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