year 9 Homeworks:
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Homeworks for 2019-20:
Homework for Monday, March 2nd:
1. Use the presentation on the Moodle under the Inventions and New Technology section to fill in the worksheet you were given
Homework for Monday, Jan 27th:
1. Finish the activities on Farming Before and After Enclosure.
2. Finish the activities on the Agricultural Revolution, ie fill in the chart using p28 of Peace and War and the sheet Changes in the Countryside information sheet on the Moodle. Do the mix and match exercise too.
3. Do question 1 on the section about Thomas Coke.
Homework for Wednesday, Jan 22nd:
1. Finish the mindmap on population growth.
Homework for Monday, Jan 19th.
1. You must have the mindmaps finished to be handed in on Monday.
Homework for Friday, Jan 17th:
1. Finish your research on Britain in 1750 using the resources on the Moodle and in the textbook.
Homework for Wednesday, December 11th:
1. Finish the notes on the reasons for the abolition of slavery.
2. Remember you need to have done the rooms on Life on the Plantations and on Resistance and Rebellion too.
Homework for Wednesday, December 4th:
1. Do the next two rooms of the slavery museum. Remember to choose three artefacts to exhibit and explain why they have been included and what they show.
Rooms to do: Life on the Plantations and Resistance and Rebellion.
Homework for Monday, November 25th:
1. The Assessment will be on the Transatlantic Slave Trade (not on African civilisations) up to and including the work we did on the Life on the Plantations.
2. Use your own notes and the text books on the Moodle: Black Peoples of the Americas (pages 12-22) and Britain and the Slave Trade (pages 4-17).
3. The abc questions will take place on Monday, Nov 25 and the source quesions on Wednesday, Nov 27th.
Homework for Monday, November 18th:
1. You should have finished the work on the effect of the slave trade on Britain.
2. Do the next two rooms of your museum: one on Trade and Commerce and another one on the Middle Passage. Choose three artefacts for each room, explain what they are and what they show us about the slave trade.
Here is the website: Understanding Slavery
Homework for Monday, Nov 11th:
1. Make sure you have finished the mindmap on the effects of the slave trade on Africa.
2. Choose a method for doing your slavery museum (it could be Keynote, Prezi or Padlet), then use the Understanding Slavery website to make the first room: Africa Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Choose three artefacts and explain what they are and what they show about Africa.
Homework for Friday, Nov 8th:
1. Finish questions a) to e) on the worksheet Life on the Plantations - section "What was life like amongst the slaves"
2. Watch the video "The Passage".
Homework for Monday, Nov 4th:
1. Make sure you have finished your sources on Life on the Plantations
2. Do questions 2 & 3 on the worksheet Life on the Plantations which is on the Moodle
Homework for Friday, Oct 18th:
Use the information in the text books (digital textbooks on the Moodle and Peace and War page 70-71) to write a report by an anti-slave trade campaigner about the conditions on the Middle Passage.
Homework for Friday, Sept 27th:
1. Finish your African Civilisations project.
Homework for Friday, Sept 20th:
1. Finish the Empire of the Songhai sheet
1. Make sure you have finished the questions on Africa in 1600, including the source question and question 3.
Homeworks for 2018-19:
Homework for Friday, May 24th.
Title: The Start of the First World War
1. Explain in detail why the Schlieffen Plan failed.
2. What happened at the Battle of the Marne?
3. Why was this important?
4. Why was there a race for the sea?
Homework for Monday, May 6th:
1. Make sure you have finished explaining the rivalries on the Causes of the War worksheet
2. Then answer the question on Colonial Rivalry.
3. Fil in the sheet on the Arms Race using the Cuases of the War sheet and the 02 War Plans at Sea information sheet.
4. Make sure you glue in all your sheets
Homework for Friday, April 25th:
Finish the speech bubbles on the European powers
Homework for Friday, March 29th
Finish the worksheet on Living Conditions
Homework for Friday, March 22nd:
Finish the worksheet on the Children in the Mills.
Homework for Friday, March 15th:
1. Finish Part One of the Children in the Mills worksheet.
Homework for Monday, March 11th:
Finish the Factory Location exercise and your explanation
Homework for Friday, March 8th:
Fill in the planning sheet to help you plan out your essay. Use Peace and War p46-47 and your own notes and the Moddle to help you plan each point.
Homework for Monday, Feb 25th:
1. Make sure all your work is up to date.
2. Finish the notes on Arkwright and do the detailed answer on him.
Homework for Friday, Feb 15th:
1. FInish questions i), iii) and iv) on the Darbys
Homework for Friday, Feb 8th:
1. Finish the questions on the Domestic System
2. Make sure all work is up to date.
Homework for Monday, Feb 4th:
Finish all the activities on the Agricultural Revolution, including the conclusion.
Homework for Friday, Jan 25th:
1. Make sure you have finished off your mindmap and given it to me before Friday.
2. Do the worksheet: Change and Continuity Part 2.
3. Books will be collected in on Friday.
Homework for Friday, Jan 18th:
1. Make sure you have finished all the questions on Change and Continuity.
2. Do a title page for the topic and start your mindmap on Britain in 1750.
Spend 45 minutes on the homework.
Homework for Monday, Dec 10th:
Finish your research on the different factors that contributed to the abolition of slavery and the slave trade. The information is on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Nov 26th:
1. Finish the questions on Resistance and Rebellion. Questions are on the Moodle.
2. Revise for next Friday's assessment.
You will need to revise the work we have done on the slave trade and Life on the Plantations.
Use the textbooks and the Moodle as well as your own notes. Also look at the advice you were given in class.
Britain and the Slave Trade pages 4-17
Black People's of the Americas p12-16
Homework for Friday, Nov 23rd:
1. Finish the questions on the the effects of the slave trade (using pages 32-22 from Black Peoples of the Americas and p18-21 from Britain and the Slave trade). List the effects under the following headings:
Homework for Friday, Nov 17th:
1. Revise for the assessment on slavery for next Friday.
You will need to revise the work we have done on the slave trade and Life on the Plantations.
Use the textbooks and the Moodle as well as your own notes. Also look at the advice you were given in class.
Britain and the Slave Trade pages 4-17
Black People's of the Americas p12-16
Homework for Monday, Nov 12th:
1. Finish going over the sources.
2 Now produce an official report for Parliament about Conditions on the slave plantations under two headings:
▪ Work on the Plantations
▪ Types of Punishments
▪ Use quotes from the slaves you interviewed to back up your points.
Homework for Friday, Oct 26th:
1.Do the aerial plan of the plantation using the information on page 13 .
2. Do activities 3 and a) and b) on the worksheet.
Homework for Friday, Oct 19th:
1. Finish the Zong case speech
2. Do the source exercise and explain what the sources tell us about the Middle Passage. Remember to use the sources to support your points.
Homework for Monday, October 15th:
1. Make sure you have finished all the activities on the triangular trade and the reality of the slave trade.
2. Do the historical report on the Middle Passage: how slaves were captured, how they were treated and what conditions were like on the journey across the Atlantic.
Homework for Friday, Oct 5th:
1. Finish the Triangular Trade worksheet.
Homework for Friday, Sept 26th:
Finish the research on the three African kingdoms:
Link: African kingdoms
http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=377&Itemid=232.html
Also look at Great Zimbabwe:
Homework for Monday, Sept 24th:
Finish the worksheet on the Empire of the Songhai and Askia Muhammad.
Homework for Friday, Sept 14th:
Finish the factfile on Africa in about 1600.
Homework for Monday, Sept 10th:
1. Please do a title page for the first topic on the Slave Trade.
2. Cover your book with images from the three topics were are going to do this year: slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, First World War.
Homeworks for 2017-18:
Homework for Tuesday, May 22nd:
1. Finish the questions on Deadlock.
2. Read the sheet: "Life in the trenches" and draw out a mind map to explain what life was like for the soldiers.
3. Revise
Homework for Thursday, May 17th:
1. Finish the questions on the Failure of the Schlieffen Plan and the start of Trench Warfare.
2. Read the Deadlock information sheet on the Moodle and then do questions 1 & 2 on the worksheet.
3. Revision
Homework for Tuesday, May 8th
1. Finish the fill-in sheet on the assassination.
2. Look the telegram sheet on the Moodle (05 Russia v Germany Personal misunderstandings) and do the activities - but do them in your book.
3. Complete the storyboard showing the sequence of events leading to the assassination.
Homework for Thursday, May 3rd:
1. Make sure you have finished the War Plans worksheet.
2. Complete the Nationalism questions.
3. Read 03 The Assassination Exercise on the Moodle and write your 10 telegrams explaining what happened during the course of the day.
Homework for Thursday, April 26th:
1. Make sure you have finished the speech bubbles and the factfile on the Great Powers.
2. Use the material from the sheets on the Alliances on the Moodle and your own research to fill in the worksheet on the Alliances (Remember to add a key)
3. Do your playmobil character with instruments and objects from the list on the Industrial Revolution Moodle (use the sheet on the Who Responsible Balloon Debate for the list of characters).
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 27th:
1. Finish the charts on the inventions and the raw materials.
2. Do the factory location exercise and write a paragraph explaining the choice of location in each period.
3. Revise the Industrial Revolution for a quick, short answer 5-question quiz.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 20th:
1. Finish the activities on the Darbys
2. Then do the first two activities on Arkwright on the Entrepreneurs worksheet on the Moodle (also use the sheet about Arkwright on the Moodle and pages 12-15 of Peace and War).
Homework for MONDAY, Feb 5th:
1. Finish the Domestic System activities
2. Write a detailed answer using the sheet on the Moodle and p9 "Peace and War" to explain what made Josiah Wedgwood a successful businessman.
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 30th:
Finish all the activities on the Agricultural Revolution, Thomas Coke and the Conclusion which are on the Moodle. Please ensure all work is completed.
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 23rd:
1. Finish the questions on change and continuity:
Read the sheet on the Moodle and use the information to write a detailed explanation of why the population grew at this time.
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 16th:
1. Finish the work on the three pictures
2. Use pages 2-3 of the textbook and the material on the Moodle to produce a mind map of what Britain was like in 1750.
Homework for Thursday, Dec 14th:
1. Finish your notes and preparation for the essay on the abolition of slavery.
The essay will be done in class on Thursday.
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 12th:
Use the Peace and War text book pages 82-85, the orange book p 22-27, the text book p40-41, the sheet on the Abolitionists on the Moodle and the notes you made on the video to make notes on the causes of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade.You can use the chart on the materials page as a guide on how to set out your notes.
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 5th:
Finish the activities on resistance and rebellion which are on the Moodle.
Bring the green "Peace and War" book to class on Tuesday.
Homework for Nov 28th:
Please finish the activity on the Moodle on "How did the slave trade affect Britain?"
Homework for Nov 21st:
1. Make sure you have finished activities a)-e) on What was life like among the slaves?
2. Do the mind map on the effects of the slave trade on Africa.
3. Watch the Slavery in Jamaica video (link on the Moodle)
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 14th:
Do the worksheet "Life on the plantations"
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 7th:
1. Make sure you have finished the worksheet on the sources.
2. Begin the worksheet entitled "Life on the plantations" and do questions 2 & 3
3. Revise the work we have done so far this term for a short-answer test on Tuesday, Nov 7th (Thursday is a holiday).
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 23rd:
1. For those of you who have not finished the Zong speech, please do it for Tuesday.
2. You should also have finished the question on the methods of sale
2. Then begin designing your slavery museum (use Prezi or the Classtools app and the Understanding Slavery site - links are on the Moodle). Design the first two rooms on Africa before the Slave Trade and on the Atlantic Crossing.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 10th:
Finish the Middle Passage historical report by Tuesday.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 26th:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Americas
2. Fill in the slave trade sheet.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 19th:
1. Make sure you have finished all the the activities on Askia Muhammad.
2. Read the webpage on the Moodle entitled "An introduction to African kingdoms" and make notes on each of the three kingdoms: Ghana, Mali and Ethiopia.
3. Go to the artefacts page on the Moodle and pick four artefacts that tell us about African civilisation before the transatlantic slave trade. For each one:
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 12th:
1. Finish the factfile on Africa
2. Do the questions on the sources.
3. Do question 3 on the worksheet (at least half a page)
Homeworks for 2016-17:
Homework for Wednesday, June 21st:
1. Finish the Trench warfare sheet and the trench warfare mindmap.
Homework for Wednesday, May 24th:
1. Follow the guidelines on essay technique and write the following essay on the paper you have been given.
Did two bullets lead to 20 million deaths in the First World War?
Homework for Wednesday, May 17th:
1. Make sure you have finished the Schlieffen Plan factfile
2. Complete the Countdown to War sheet using the information from the sheet on the Moodle.
3. Begin your revision for the internal exams.
Homework for Wednesday, May 10th:
1. Finish reading and making notes on the articles about the assassination.
2. Use the information and the notes you have made on the film to fill in the sheet on the factors that allowed the assassination to occur.
3. Do the storyboard on the events leading up to the assassination and the effects. Make a really good job of this.
Homework for Thursday, May 4th:
1. Make sure you have finished the questions on rivalries and the worksheet on the Arms Race.
2. Use the Causes of the War sheet to explain what Nationalism was
3. Read the sheet on the Moodle 03 Nationalism and do the questions in your book.
Homework for Wednesday, April 26th:
1. Make sure you have finished the speech bubbles and the factfile on the European powers.
Homework for Wednesday, March 29th:
1. Finish the questions on Living conditions
2. Look at the presentation on the effects of industrialisation and draw out a mindmap with a short explanation of each point under it.
Homework for Wednesday, March 15th:
Finish the worksheet on Children in the Mills. Books will be taken in next Wednesday.
Homework for Wednesday, March 8th:
Copy out the diagram showing the links between the causes of the Industrial Revolution (it is on the Moodle in the section entitled "Causes of the Industrial Revolution".
Then explain any links on the diagram.
Homework for Wednesday, March 1st:
1. Make sure you have finished the raw materials sheet and the factory location exercise.
2. Fill in the sheet on "Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Britain?" Use the book, your exercise book and your own knowledge.
Homework for Wednesday, Feb 15th:
1. Make sure you have finished the activities on the Darbys.
2. Then read pages 13-15 in Peace and War and do the activities on Arkwright the Moodle.
Remember to write a title for the whole topic on the first page.
Homework for Wednesday, Feb 8th:
1. Make sure you have finished the domestic system questions.
2. Finish the Josiah Wedgwood case study on the entrepreneurs worksheet.
3. Read page 8 of Peace & War and turn the three reasons why businesses grow into a diagram (mind map or flow chart).
Homework for Wednesday, Feb 1st:
1. Make sure you have finished the activities on Thomas Coke.
2. Then use your notes, the material on the Moodle and pages 28-29 of Peace and War to answer the question:
Why was the Industrial Revolution so important? Your answer should be clear, well organised and well supported with evidence.
Homework for Wednesday, Jan 25th:
1. Finish the mind map.
2. Read the information on Enclosure in the section entitled "Agricultural Revolution" on the Moodle.
3. Then do questions 1, 2 and 3 on Enclosure in the activities section on the Moodle.
Homework for Wednesday, Jan 18th:
1. Make sure you have finished the activities on the three pictures.
2. Do the first activity on the Change and Continuity Part 2 worksheet.
Homework for Wednesday, Dec 21st:
1. Finish your notes on the causes of the abolition of the slave trade.
2. Write an essay in answer to the following question:
How far was the slave trade abolished because of the actions of white middle class people?
Homework for Thursday, Dec 15th:
Please complete this exam review.
Homework for Wednesday, Nov 23rd:
1. Finish the notes on the effects of the slave trade on Britain.
2. You can begin revising for the exam; use the guide sheet on the Moodle to organise your revision, the text books and your exercise books.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 10th:
1. Finish the questions on the Life on the Plantations worksheet under the section: What was life like amongst slaves.
2. Watch the video on Slavery in Jamaica (link on the Moodle)
Homework for Wednesday, Oct 26th:
Finish the first three activities on the Life on the Plantations worksheet.
Homework for Tuesday, 18th Oct:
1. Finish the chart and the following question on Why did People support slavery?
Homework for Thursday, 13th Oct:
1. Make sure you have done all the work on the worksheet on "The Realities of the Slave Trade" up to and including the work on the Historical Report on the Middle Passage.
2. If you haven't already done them can you do the questions about the sources on the sheet you were given about the Triangular Trade.
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 21st:
Complete your factfiles on the African Civilisation and make sure you saved it or printed it out.
British Museum website
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 14th:
1. Finish off the worksheet on Africa in 1600.
2. Watch the video on the Songhai: watch from minute 31 to minute 50.
3. Do the first half of the Songhai worksheet which is on the Moodle.
Homeworks for Wednesday, Sept 7th:
1. Do a title page own images for your for the first topic: Slavery and the Slave Trade.
2. Cover your book with images from the topics we will study this year: Slavery, The Industrial Revolution and the First World War.
Homework for Thursday, May 19th:
Please do the storyboard explaining the sequence of events surrounding the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
For the week after your revision homework will be to write the following essay:
Did 2 bullets cause the death of 20 million people in the First World War? (in other words did the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand cause the First World War).
Homework for Thursday, April 28th:
1. Make sure you have finished the speech bubbles.
2. Compile the factfile on the Great Powers.
Homework for Thursday, April 21st:
Write the final version of your essay on the Industrial Revolution. Follow the guidelines and advice on the Moodle.
Homework for Thursday, April 14th:
1. You should have sent me access to your essays already.
2. Finish the worksheet on Children in the Mills.
Homework for Monday, April 4th:
Finish your draft essay and make the comments on your partner's essay. Then send me the version with the comments.
Homework for Thursday, March 10th:
Make sure you have finished the Factory Location activity and then prepare your slide and speech for the balloon debate on the Industrial Revolution.
Homework for Thursday, March 3rd:
1. Finish the questions on Richard Arkwright.
Homework for Thursday, 25th:
Finish the questions on Wedgwood and Darby.
Homework for Thursday, Feb 11th:
1. Finish the Agricultural Revolution activities and the work on the Domestic system.
2. Produce a well explained answer explaining why the Agricultural Revolution was so important.
Homework for Thursday, Feb 4th:
1. Finish the chart on why agriculture changed during this period.
Homework for Thursday, Jan 28th:
1. Make sure you have finished the mind map.
2. Do the first three questions on the Agricultural activities section.
3. Log on to spiral.ac and try to make comments on the powerpoint.
Homework for Thursday, Jan 21st:
1. Do the title page for the Industrial Revolution topic.
2. Finish the questions on Change and Continuity.
3. Do questions 2 & 3 on the Change and Continuity Part 2 worksheet.
Exam review:
Can you please fill in the following exam review?
Homework for Thursday, Dec 17th:
1. Make sure you have finished the Slavery Museum and send me the link.
2. Begin preparing the presentation for the Civil Rights Songs (see links on the Moodle)
You will have to do your presentation on Friday, Dec 18th.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 26th:
Make sure you have finished the notes on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Orange book p22-27; Blue book p40-45, Green book p82-85)
2. Revise
Homework for Thursday, Nov 19th:
1. Begin revision for the exams using the textbooks.
For Thursday, Nov 26th:
2. Write the essay on the abolition of the slave trade using the guide sheet on the Moodle.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 12th:
1. Make sure you have finished the work on who benefited from the slave trade.
2. Do you research and notes on the different factors that led to the abolition of the slave trade - see the Moodle for precise instructions.
Homework for Thursday, Oct 22nd:
Complete rooms 3 and 4 in the Slavery museum: The Middle Passage and Life on the Plantations. Use the Understanding Slavery website to help you select the artefacts.
Homework for Thursday, Oct 8th:
1. Finish the historical report into the Middle Passage. Use all the resources on the Moodle and pages 70-71 of the Peace and War textbook.
Homework for Thursday, Oct 1st
1. Make sure you have finished the questions from the Orange book.
2. Then using the Artefacts section of the Understanding Slavery website and Prezi make a start on your Slavery Museum. You should complete your first two rooms: 1. Africa Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade 2. Trade and Commerce.
Include up to four objects in each room. For each object explain what it is and what it shows us about the slave trade.
Homework for Thursday, Sept 24th:
Finish the questions on the slave trade sheet on the Moodle.
Homework for Thursday, 17th Sept:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Songhai Empire and Askia Muhammad.
2. On the next worksheet on the Moodle, read pages 8-9 of the textbook and draw out a spider diagram/mindmap to show the contacts between Africa and the rest of the world.
3. Make sure you have finished your title page.
Homework for Thursday, 10th Sept:
1. Do a title page for the Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade topic. Try and draw your own images rather than take them from the Internet.
2. Make sure you have finished the worksheet on Africa in About 1600.
Here is the link to the online version of the textbook.
Homework for Tuesday, June 2nd:
1. You should all have finished the Countdown to War sheet, the cartoon sheet, the short-term and long-term causes and the Schlieffen Plan Factfile and then write a paragraph explaining why the plan failed (see the sheet on iTunesU).
2. Revision.
Homework for Tuesday, May 19th:
1. Make sure you have finished the two worksheets on the Causes of the War and the MAIN Causes of the War but do not do the section on the Spark (see iTunesU).
2. Do the chart about the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
3. Do the storyboard on the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Homework for Tuesday, May 12th:
1. Make sure you have finished the factfiles on the European powers.
2. Do Section A of the worksheet on the Cause of WW1 which is about long-term instability.
Homework for Tuesday, May 5th:
1. You should hand in your film poster on Tuesday.
2. You must finish the video by Tuesday, May 12th.
Homework for Tuesday, April 28th:
1. Plan out your storyboard for your trailer of the film on Magna Carta.
2. Design a poster to advertise the film. All the advice is on the Easyclass site.
Homework for Tuesday, April 21st:
1. Make sure you have finished the section on Easyclass about why King John was so unpopular. Print out your story with the sub-titles and glue into your exercise book.
2. Then do the post about Chapter 2 and further research about why he was unpopular.
Homework for Easter:
1. Make sure you have finished the chart on popular movements.
2. Do the image activity which is on iTunesU.
Homework for Tuesday, March 24th:
Finish the activities on Chartism which are on the iTunesU (Under Political Effects of the Industrial Revolution).
Homework for Tuesday, March 17th:
Get as far as you can on the worksheet on Living Conditions as you can in 45 minutes.
Homework for Tuesday, March 3rd:
1. Finish the chart on the different methods of transport.
2. Complete the chart on the effects of the railways.
3. Now write an extended answer to explain the effects of railways - organise it into social, economic and political and make sure you include a conclusion.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 24th:
Do the mind map on the causes of the Industrial Revolution on your iPad following the guidelines on the iTunesU course,
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 10th:
1. Finish the activities on Arkwright from the Entrepreneurs sheet.
2. Glue in and add captions to the cartoons from the sheet "Why do businesses grow?"
Homework for Tuesday, 3rd Feb:;
Complete the first two sections of work on Wedgewood and the Darby Family on the Entrepreneurs sheet (copy on the iTunesU course).
Homework for Tuesday, 27th Jan:
Produce a maximum of two slides to use with a speech explaining why your figure was the most important of the Industrial Revolution for the balloon debate on Wednesday, 28th Jan.
Homework for Tuesday, 20th Jan:
1. Make sure you have printed out the mix and match chart on the changes in farming.
2. Finish question 4 on the negative effects of enclosure.
3. Copy and complete the chart on Why did Farming Change? (there is a copy in the materials section on iTunesU).
4. Read and glue in the information sheet on the changes in farming.
Homework for holidays:
Make sure you have finished the mind map on Britain in 1750.
Try to read a book related to history (any period).
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 16th:
1. Make sure you have finished the exercise comparing the three pictures of 1750, 1830 and 1890.
2. Explain what you think are four of the most important changes that have taken place over the period 1750 to 1890. Why have you chosen them?
3. Has anything stayed the same over this period (what and why)?
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 18th:
Finish the slavery museum activity adding the final rooms up to and including the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 11th:
1. Finish the activities on Life on the Plantations and on Resistance and Rebellion which are on iTunesU.
2. Watch the video which is on the Life on the Plantations section about Jamaica.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 4th:
1. Complete the first three or four rooms of your slavery museum (see below).
2. It will help if you so some revision of the topic over half term.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 21st:
1. Begin your slavery museum with an introduction and the artefacts in the first two rooms:
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 14th:
1. Make sure you have finished the speech.
2. Read pages 8 & 9 of the orange text book and explain how the slave traders tried to ensure they got the best price for the slaves, then explain the three main ways in which slaves were sold.
3. Do the worksheet entitled "Why did people support slavery?"
Work for the week beginning Sept 29th and homework due in on Tuesday, October 7th:
Do the activities on the iTunesU course:
You are now going to study the Triangular Trade which involved taking slaves from West Africa across the Atlantic to America in a journey known as the Middle Passage.
1. Write a few sentences to explain what the triangular trade was.
2. Now do a sketch map to show how the triangular trade worked - make sure you include labels and a key.
3. Write a detailed description of what happened on each leg of the journey.
4. How did the slave trade benefit Britain? Complete activities 2, 3 & 4 on the sheet you have been given about this too.
5. Read pages 12-13 of your text book and examine the map carefully.
Which other countries apart from Britain were involved in the slave trade and where did they trade slaves?
6. Why were the death rates so high even before the slaves were exported (see p13 of your text book).
7. Use the book Britain and the Slave Trade pages 6-7 to explain how and why the slave traders got the slaves.
The Middle Passage:
Produce a historical report on the Middle Passage. You should write about how the slaves were captured, how they were treated and what conditions were like. Remember to use sources of evidence to back up and illustrate your points and explain where you came from. You should use your text book pages 12, 13 16 & 17, the sheets you have been given, Britain and the Slave trade pages 6-7 & 10-11.
Extension work: (if you have time during class or homework):
Read pages 70-71 of Peace and War about the case of the slave ship Zong and write a speech for the ship's insurance company saying why you think the slave owners should not be paid any money.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 30th:
1. Finish off the work on the contacts between Africa and the rest of the world and the questions on America.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 16th:
1. Cover your exercise book with images from the topics we will study this year.
2. Finish the worksheet "Africa in about 1600".
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 10th:
1. Do the title page for Slavery and the Slave Trade
Homework for Monday, March 2nd:
1. Use the presentation on the Moodle under the Inventions and New Technology section to fill in the worksheet you were given
Homework for Monday, Jan 27th:
1. Finish the activities on Farming Before and After Enclosure.
2. Finish the activities on the Agricultural Revolution, ie fill in the chart using p28 of Peace and War and the sheet Changes in the Countryside information sheet on the Moodle. Do the mix and match exercise too.
3. Do question 1 on the section about Thomas Coke.
Homework for Wednesday, Jan 22nd:
1. Finish the mindmap on population growth.
Homework for Monday, Jan 19th.
1. You must have the mindmaps finished to be handed in on Monday.
Homework for Friday, Jan 17th:
1. Finish your research on Britain in 1750 using the resources on the Moodle and in the textbook.
Homework for Wednesday, December 11th:
1. Finish the notes on the reasons for the abolition of slavery.
2. Remember you need to have done the rooms on Life on the Plantations and on Resistance and Rebellion too.
Homework for Wednesday, December 4th:
1. Do the next two rooms of the slavery museum. Remember to choose three artefacts to exhibit and explain why they have been included and what they show.
Rooms to do: Life on the Plantations and Resistance and Rebellion.
Homework for Monday, November 25th:
1. The Assessment will be on the Transatlantic Slave Trade (not on African civilisations) up to and including the work we did on the Life on the Plantations.
2. Use your own notes and the text books on the Moodle: Black Peoples of the Americas (pages 12-22) and Britain and the Slave Trade (pages 4-17).
3. The abc questions will take place on Monday, Nov 25 and the source quesions on Wednesday, Nov 27th.
Homework for Monday, November 18th:
1. You should have finished the work on the effect of the slave trade on Britain.
2. Do the next two rooms of your museum: one on Trade and Commerce and another one on the Middle Passage. Choose three artefacts for each room, explain what they are and what they show us about the slave trade.
Here is the website: Understanding Slavery
Homework for Monday, Nov 11th:
1. Make sure you have finished the mindmap on the effects of the slave trade on Africa.
2. Choose a method for doing your slavery museum (it could be Keynote, Prezi or Padlet), then use the Understanding Slavery website to make the first room: Africa Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Choose three artefacts and explain what they are and what they show about Africa.
Homework for Friday, Nov 8th:
1. Finish questions a) to e) on the worksheet Life on the Plantations - section "What was life like amongst the slaves"
2. Watch the video "The Passage".
Homework for Monday, Nov 4th:
1. Make sure you have finished your sources on Life on the Plantations
2. Do questions 2 & 3 on the worksheet Life on the Plantations which is on the Moodle
Homework for Friday, Oct 18th:
Use the information in the text books (digital textbooks on the Moodle and Peace and War page 70-71) to write a report by an anti-slave trade campaigner about the conditions on the Middle Passage.
Homework for Friday, Sept 27th:
1. Finish your African Civilisations project.
Homework for Friday, Sept 20th:
1. Finish the Empire of the Songhai sheet
1. Make sure you have finished the questions on Africa in 1600, including the source question and question 3.
Homeworks for 2018-19:
Homework for Friday, May 24th.
Title: The Start of the First World War
1. Explain in detail why the Schlieffen Plan failed.
2. What happened at the Battle of the Marne?
3. Why was this important?
4. Why was there a race for the sea?
Homework for Monday, May 6th:
1. Make sure you have finished explaining the rivalries on the Causes of the War worksheet
2. Then answer the question on Colonial Rivalry.
3. Fil in the sheet on the Arms Race using the Cuases of the War sheet and the 02 War Plans at Sea information sheet.
4. Make sure you glue in all your sheets
Homework for Friday, April 25th:
Finish the speech bubbles on the European powers
Homework for Friday, March 29th
Finish the worksheet on Living Conditions
Homework for Friday, March 22nd:
Finish the worksheet on the Children in the Mills.
Homework for Friday, March 15th:
1. Finish Part One of the Children in the Mills worksheet.
Homework for Monday, March 11th:
Finish the Factory Location exercise and your explanation
Homework for Friday, March 8th:
Fill in the planning sheet to help you plan out your essay. Use Peace and War p46-47 and your own notes and the Moddle to help you plan each point.
Homework for Monday, Feb 25th:
1. Make sure all your work is up to date.
2. Finish the notes on Arkwright and do the detailed answer on him.
Homework for Friday, Feb 15th:
1. FInish questions i), iii) and iv) on the Darbys
Homework for Friday, Feb 8th:
1. Finish the questions on the Domestic System
2. Make sure all work is up to date.
Homework for Monday, Feb 4th:
Finish all the activities on the Agricultural Revolution, including the conclusion.
Homework for Friday, Jan 25th:
1. Make sure you have finished off your mindmap and given it to me before Friday.
2. Do the worksheet: Change and Continuity Part 2.
3. Books will be collected in on Friday.
Homework for Friday, Jan 18th:
1. Make sure you have finished all the questions on Change and Continuity.
2. Do a title page for the topic and start your mindmap on Britain in 1750.
Spend 45 minutes on the homework.
Homework for Monday, Dec 10th:
Finish your research on the different factors that contributed to the abolition of slavery and the slave trade. The information is on the Moodle.
Homework for Monday, Nov 26th:
1. Finish the questions on Resistance and Rebellion. Questions are on the Moodle.
2. Revise for next Friday's assessment.
You will need to revise the work we have done on the slave trade and Life on the Plantations.
Use the textbooks and the Moodle as well as your own notes. Also look at the advice you were given in class.
Britain and the Slave Trade pages 4-17
Black People's of the Americas p12-16
Homework for Friday, Nov 23rd:
1. Finish the questions on the the effects of the slave trade (using pages 32-22 from Black Peoples of the Americas and p18-21 from Britain and the Slave trade). List the effects under the following headings:
- Government
- Cities
- Private Individuals
- Jobs
- Investment
Homework for Friday, Nov 17th:
1. Revise for the assessment on slavery for next Friday.
You will need to revise the work we have done on the slave trade and Life on the Plantations.
Use the textbooks and the Moodle as well as your own notes. Also look at the advice you were given in class.
Britain and the Slave Trade pages 4-17
Black People's of the Americas p12-16
Homework for Monday, Nov 12th:
1. Finish going over the sources.
2 Now produce an official report for Parliament about Conditions on the slave plantations under two headings:
▪ Work on the Plantations
▪ Types of Punishments
▪ Use quotes from the slaves you interviewed to back up your points.
Homework for Friday, Oct 26th:
1.Do the aerial plan of the plantation using the information on page 13 .
2. Do activities 3 and a) and b) on the worksheet.
Homework for Friday, Oct 19th:
1. Finish the Zong case speech
2. Do the source exercise and explain what the sources tell us about the Middle Passage. Remember to use the sources to support your points.
Homework for Monday, October 15th:
1. Make sure you have finished all the activities on the triangular trade and the reality of the slave trade.
2. Do the historical report on the Middle Passage: how slaves were captured, how they were treated and what conditions were like on the journey across the Atlantic.
Homework for Friday, Oct 5th:
1. Finish the Triangular Trade worksheet.
Homework for Friday, Sept 26th:
Finish the research on the three African kingdoms:
Link: African kingdoms
http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=377&Itemid=232.html
Also look at Great Zimbabwe:
Homework for Monday, Sept 24th:
Finish the worksheet on the Empire of the Songhai and Askia Muhammad.
Homework for Friday, Sept 14th:
Finish the factfile on Africa in about 1600.
Homework for Monday, Sept 10th:
1. Please do a title page for the first topic on the Slave Trade.
2. Cover your book with images from the three topics were are going to do this year: slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, First World War.
Homeworks for 2017-18:
Homework for Tuesday, May 22nd:
1. Finish the questions on Deadlock.
2. Read the sheet: "Life in the trenches" and draw out a mind map to explain what life was like for the soldiers.
3. Revise
Homework for Thursday, May 17th:
1. Finish the questions on the Failure of the Schlieffen Plan and the start of Trench Warfare.
2. Read the Deadlock information sheet on the Moodle and then do questions 1 & 2 on the worksheet.
3. Revision
Homework for Tuesday, May 8th
1. Finish the fill-in sheet on the assassination.
2. Look the telegram sheet on the Moodle (05 Russia v Germany Personal misunderstandings) and do the activities - but do them in your book.
3. Complete the storyboard showing the sequence of events leading to the assassination.
Homework for Thursday, May 3rd:
1. Make sure you have finished the War Plans worksheet.
2. Complete the Nationalism questions.
3. Read 03 The Assassination Exercise on the Moodle and write your 10 telegrams explaining what happened during the course of the day.
Homework for Thursday, April 26th:
1. Make sure you have finished the speech bubbles and the factfile on the Great Powers.
2. Use the material from the sheets on the Alliances on the Moodle and your own research to fill in the worksheet on the Alliances (Remember to add a key)
3. Do your playmobil character with instruments and objects from the list on the Industrial Revolution Moodle (use the sheet on the Who Responsible Balloon Debate for the list of characters).
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 27th:
1. Finish the charts on the inventions and the raw materials.
2. Do the factory location exercise and write a paragraph explaining the choice of location in each period.
3. Revise the Industrial Revolution for a quick, short answer 5-question quiz.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 20th:
1. Finish the activities on the Darbys
2. Then do the first two activities on Arkwright on the Entrepreneurs worksheet on the Moodle (also use the sheet about Arkwright on the Moodle and pages 12-15 of Peace and War).
Homework for MONDAY, Feb 5th:
1. Finish the Domestic System activities
2. Write a detailed answer using the sheet on the Moodle and p9 "Peace and War" to explain what made Josiah Wedgwood a successful businessman.
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 30th:
Finish all the activities on the Agricultural Revolution, Thomas Coke and the Conclusion which are on the Moodle. Please ensure all work is completed.
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 23rd:
1. Finish the questions on change and continuity:
- What do you think were the most important changes between 1750 and 1900?
- Did people's lives get better in all respects?
Read the sheet on the Moodle and use the information to write a detailed explanation of why the population grew at this time.
Homework for Tuesday, Jan 16th:
1. Finish the work on the three pictures
2. Use pages 2-3 of the textbook and the material on the Moodle to produce a mind map of what Britain was like in 1750.
Homework for Thursday, Dec 14th:
1. Finish your notes and preparation for the essay on the abolition of slavery.
The essay will be done in class on Thursday.
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 12th:
Use the Peace and War text book pages 82-85, the orange book p 22-27, the text book p40-41, the sheet on the Abolitionists on the Moodle and the notes you made on the video to make notes on the causes of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade.You can use the chart on the materials page as a guide on how to set out your notes.
- The Actions of White Middle Class people (including in parliament)
- The Actions of White Working Class people.
- The Actions of Black people (slaves and former slaves)
- Economic factors
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 5th:
Finish the activities on resistance and rebellion which are on the Moodle.
Bring the green "Peace and War" book to class on Tuesday.
Homework for Nov 28th:
Please finish the activity on the Moodle on "How did the slave trade affect Britain?"
Homework for Nov 21st:
1. Make sure you have finished activities a)-e) on What was life like among the slaves?
2. Do the mind map on the effects of the slave trade on Africa.
3. Watch the Slavery in Jamaica video (link on the Moodle)
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 14th:
Do the worksheet "Life on the plantations"
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 7th:
1. Make sure you have finished the worksheet on the sources.
2. Begin the worksheet entitled "Life on the plantations" and do questions 2 & 3
3. Revise the work we have done so far this term for a short-answer test on Tuesday, Nov 7th (Thursday is a holiday).
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 23rd:
1. For those of you who have not finished the Zong speech, please do it for Tuesday.
2. You should also have finished the question on the methods of sale
2. Then begin designing your slavery museum (use Prezi or the Classtools app and the Understanding Slavery site - links are on the Moodle). Design the first two rooms on Africa before the Slave Trade and on the Atlantic Crossing.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 10th:
Finish the Middle Passage historical report by Tuesday.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 26th:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Americas
2. Fill in the slave trade sheet.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 19th:
1. Make sure you have finished all the the activities on Askia Muhammad.
2. Read the webpage on the Moodle entitled "An introduction to African kingdoms" and make notes on each of the three kingdoms: Ghana, Mali and Ethiopia.
3. Go to the artefacts page on the Moodle and pick four artefacts that tell us about African civilisation before the transatlantic slave trade. For each one:
- Draw it
- Describe it
- Explain what it tells us about African civilisation
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 12th:
1. Finish the factfile on Africa
2. Do the questions on the sources.
3. Do question 3 on the worksheet (at least half a page)
Homeworks for 2016-17:
Homework for Wednesday, June 21st:
1. Finish the Trench warfare sheet and the trench warfare mindmap.
Homework for Wednesday, May 24th:
1. Follow the guidelines on essay technique and write the following essay on the paper you have been given.
Did two bullets lead to 20 million deaths in the First World War?
Homework for Wednesday, May 17th:
1. Make sure you have finished the Schlieffen Plan factfile
2. Complete the Countdown to War sheet using the information from the sheet on the Moodle.
3. Begin your revision for the internal exams.
Homework for Wednesday, May 10th:
1. Finish reading and making notes on the articles about the assassination.
2. Use the information and the notes you have made on the film to fill in the sheet on the factors that allowed the assassination to occur.
3. Do the storyboard on the events leading up to the assassination and the effects. Make a really good job of this.
Homework for Thursday, May 4th:
1. Make sure you have finished the questions on rivalries and the worksheet on the Arms Race.
2. Use the Causes of the War sheet to explain what Nationalism was
3. Read the sheet on the Moodle 03 Nationalism and do the questions in your book.
Homework for Wednesday, April 26th:
1. Make sure you have finished the speech bubbles and the factfile on the European powers.
Homework for Wednesday, March 29th:
1. Finish the questions on Living conditions
2. Look at the presentation on the effects of industrialisation and draw out a mindmap with a short explanation of each point under it.
Homework for Wednesday, March 15th:
Finish the worksheet on Children in the Mills. Books will be taken in next Wednesday.
Homework for Wednesday, March 8th:
Copy out the diagram showing the links between the causes of the Industrial Revolution (it is on the Moodle in the section entitled "Causes of the Industrial Revolution".
Then explain any links on the diagram.
Homework for Wednesday, March 1st:
1. Make sure you have finished the raw materials sheet and the factory location exercise.
2. Fill in the sheet on "Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Britain?" Use the book, your exercise book and your own knowledge.
Homework for Wednesday, Feb 15th:
1. Make sure you have finished the activities on the Darbys.
2. Then read pages 13-15 in Peace and War and do the activities on Arkwright the Moodle.
Remember to write a title for the whole topic on the first page.
Homework for Wednesday, Feb 8th:
1. Make sure you have finished the domestic system questions.
2. Finish the Josiah Wedgwood case study on the entrepreneurs worksheet.
3. Read page 8 of Peace & War and turn the three reasons why businesses grow into a diagram (mind map or flow chart).
Homework for Wednesday, Feb 1st:
1. Make sure you have finished the activities on Thomas Coke.
2. Then use your notes, the material on the Moodle and pages 28-29 of Peace and War to answer the question:
Why was the Industrial Revolution so important? Your answer should be clear, well organised and well supported with evidence.
Homework for Wednesday, Jan 25th:
1. Finish the mind map.
2. Read the information on Enclosure in the section entitled "Agricultural Revolution" on the Moodle.
3. Then do questions 1, 2 and 3 on Enclosure in the activities section on the Moodle.
Homework for Wednesday, Jan 18th:
1. Make sure you have finished the activities on the three pictures.
2. Do the first activity on the Change and Continuity Part 2 worksheet.
Homework for Wednesday, Dec 21st:
1. Finish your notes on the causes of the abolition of the slave trade.
2. Write an essay in answer to the following question:
How far was the slave trade abolished because of the actions of white middle class people?
Homework for Thursday, Dec 15th:
Please complete this exam review.
Homework for Wednesday, Nov 23rd:
1. Finish the notes on the effects of the slave trade on Britain.
2. You can begin revising for the exam; use the guide sheet on the Moodle to organise your revision, the text books and your exercise books.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 10th:
1. Finish the questions on the Life on the Plantations worksheet under the section: What was life like amongst slaves.
2. Watch the video on Slavery in Jamaica (link on the Moodle)
Homework for Wednesday, Oct 26th:
Finish the first three activities on the Life on the Plantations worksheet.
Homework for Tuesday, 18th Oct:
1. Finish the chart and the following question on Why did People support slavery?
- What do all the sources tell us about the values of the time and how are they different from values today?
Homework for Thursday, 13th Oct:
1. Make sure you have done all the work on the worksheet on "The Realities of the Slave Trade" up to and including the work on the Historical Report on the Middle Passage.
2. If you haven't already done them can you do the questions about the sources on the sheet you were given about the Triangular Trade.
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 21st:
Complete your factfiles on the African Civilisation and make sure you saved it or printed it out.
British Museum website
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 14th:
1. Finish off the worksheet on Africa in 1600.
2. Watch the video on the Songhai: watch from minute 31 to minute 50.
3. Do the first half of the Songhai worksheet which is on the Moodle.
Homeworks for Wednesday, Sept 7th:
1. Do a title page own images for your for the first topic: Slavery and the Slave Trade.
2. Cover your book with images from the topics we will study this year: Slavery, The Industrial Revolution and the First World War.
Homework for Thursday, May 19th:
Please do the storyboard explaining the sequence of events surrounding the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
For the week after your revision homework will be to write the following essay:
Did 2 bullets cause the death of 20 million people in the First World War? (in other words did the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand cause the First World War).
Homework for Thursday, April 28th:
1. Make sure you have finished the speech bubbles.
2. Compile the factfile on the Great Powers.
Homework for Thursday, April 21st:
Write the final version of your essay on the Industrial Revolution. Follow the guidelines and advice on the Moodle.
Homework for Thursday, April 14th:
1. You should have sent me access to your essays already.
2. Finish the worksheet on Children in the Mills.
Homework for Monday, April 4th:
Finish your draft essay and make the comments on your partner's essay. Then send me the version with the comments.
Homework for Thursday, March 10th:
Make sure you have finished the Factory Location activity and then prepare your slide and speech for the balloon debate on the Industrial Revolution.
Homework for Thursday, March 3rd:
1. Finish the questions on Richard Arkwright.
Homework for Thursday, 25th:
Finish the questions on Wedgwood and Darby.
Homework for Thursday, Feb 11th:
1. Finish the Agricultural Revolution activities and the work on the Domestic system.
2. Produce a well explained answer explaining why the Agricultural Revolution was so important.
Homework for Thursday, Feb 4th:
1. Finish the chart on why agriculture changed during this period.
Homework for Thursday, Jan 28th:
1. Make sure you have finished the mind map.
2. Do the first three questions on the Agricultural activities section.
3. Log on to spiral.ac and try to make comments on the powerpoint.
Homework for Thursday, Jan 21st:
1. Do the title page for the Industrial Revolution topic.
2. Finish the questions on Change and Continuity.
3. Do questions 2 & 3 on the Change and Continuity Part 2 worksheet.
Exam review:
Can you please fill in the following exam review?
Homework for Thursday, Dec 17th:
1. Make sure you have finished the Slavery Museum and send me the link.
2. Begin preparing the presentation for the Civil Rights Songs (see links on the Moodle)
You will have to do your presentation on Friday, Dec 18th.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 26th:
Make sure you have finished the notes on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Orange book p22-27; Blue book p40-45, Green book p82-85)
2. Revise
Homework for Thursday, Nov 19th:
1. Begin revision for the exams using the textbooks.
For Thursday, Nov 26th:
2. Write the essay on the abolition of the slave trade using the guide sheet on the Moodle.
Homework for Thursday, Nov 12th:
1. Make sure you have finished the work on who benefited from the slave trade.
2. Do you research and notes on the different factors that led to the abolition of the slave trade - see the Moodle for precise instructions.
Homework for Thursday, Oct 22nd:
Complete rooms 3 and 4 in the Slavery museum: The Middle Passage and Life on the Plantations. Use the Understanding Slavery website to help you select the artefacts.
Homework for Thursday, Oct 8th:
1. Finish the historical report into the Middle Passage. Use all the resources on the Moodle and pages 70-71 of the Peace and War textbook.
Homework for Thursday, Oct 1st
1. Make sure you have finished the questions from the Orange book.
2. Then using the Artefacts section of the Understanding Slavery website and Prezi make a start on your Slavery Museum. You should complete your first two rooms: 1. Africa Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade 2. Trade and Commerce.
Include up to four objects in each room. For each object explain what it is and what it shows us about the slave trade.
Homework for Thursday, Sept 24th:
Finish the questions on the slave trade sheet on the Moodle.
Homework for Thursday, 17th Sept:
1. Finish the worksheet on the Songhai Empire and Askia Muhammad.
2. On the next worksheet on the Moodle, read pages 8-9 of the textbook and draw out a spider diagram/mindmap to show the contacts between Africa and the rest of the world.
3. Make sure you have finished your title page.
Homework for Thursday, 10th Sept:
1. Do a title page for the Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade topic. Try and draw your own images rather than take them from the Internet.
2. Make sure you have finished the worksheet on Africa in About 1600.
Here is the link to the online version of the textbook.
Homework for Tuesday, June 2nd:
1. You should all have finished the Countdown to War sheet, the cartoon sheet, the short-term and long-term causes and the Schlieffen Plan Factfile and then write a paragraph explaining why the plan failed (see the sheet on iTunesU).
2. Revision.
Homework for Tuesday, May 19th:
1. Make sure you have finished the two worksheets on the Causes of the War and the MAIN Causes of the War but do not do the section on the Spark (see iTunesU).
2. Do the chart about the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
3. Do the storyboard on the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Homework for Tuesday, May 12th:
1. Make sure you have finished the factfiles on the European powers.
2. Do Section A of the worksheet on the Cause of WW1 which is about long-term instability.
Homework for Tuesday, May 5th:
1. You should hand in your film poster on Tuesday.
2. You must finish the video by Tuesday, May 12th.
Homework for Tuesday, April 28th:
1. Plan out your storyboard for your trailer of the film on Magna Carta.
2. Design a poster to advertise the film. All the advice is on the Easyclass site.
Homework for Tuesday, April 21st:
1. Make sure you have finished the section on Easyclass about why King John was so unpopular. Print out your story with the sub-titles and glue into your exercise book.
2. Then do the post about Chapter 2 and further research about why he was unpopular.
Homework for Easter:
1. Make sure you have finished the chart on popular movements.
2. Do the image activity which is on iTunesU.
Homework for Tuesday, March 24th:
Finish the activities on Chartism which are on the iTunesU (Under Political Effects of the Industrial Revolution).
Homework for Tuesday, March 17th:
Get as far as you can on the worksheet on Living Conditions as you can in 45 minutes.
Homework for Tuesday, March 3rd:
1. Finish the chart on the different methods of transport.
2. Complete the chart on the effects of the railways.
3. Now write an extended answer to explain the effects of railways - organise it into social, economic and political and make sure you include a conclusion.
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 24th:
Do the mind map on the causes of the Industrial Revolution on your iPad following the guidelines on the iTunesU course,
Homework for Tuesday, Feb 10th:
1. Finish the activities on Arkwright from the Entrepreneurs sheet.
2. Glue in and add captions to the cartoons from the sheet "Why do businesses grow?"
Homework for Tuesday, 3rd Feb:;
Complete the first two sections of work on Wedgewood and the Darby Family on the Entrepreneurs sheet (copy on the iTunesU course).
Homework for Tuesday, 27th Jan:
Produce a maximum of two slides to use with a speech explaining why your figure was the most important of the Industrial Revolution for the balloon debate on Wednesday, 28th Jan.
Homework for Tuesday, 20th Jan:
1. Make sure you have printed out the mix and match chart on the changes in farming.
2. Finish question 4 on the negative effects of enclosure.
3. Copy and complete the chart on Why did Farming Change? (there is a copy in the materials section on iTunesU).
4. Read and glue in the information sheet on the changes in farming.
Homework for holidays:
Make sure you have finished the mind map on Britain in 1750.
Try to read a book related to history (any period).
Homework for Tuesday, Dec 16th:
1. Make sure you have finished the exercise comparing the three pictures of 1750, 1830 and 1890.
2. Explain what you think are four of the most important changes that have taken place over the period 1750 to 1890. Why have you chosen them?
3. Has anything stayed the same over this period (what and why)?
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 18th:
Finish the slavery museum activity adding the final rooms up to and including the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 11th:
1. Finish the activities on Life on the Plantations and on Resistance and Rebellion which are on iTunesU.
2. Watch the video which is on the Life on the Plantations section about Jamaica.
Homework for Tuesday, Nov 4th:
1. Complete the first three or four rooms of your slavery museum (see below).
2. It will help if you so some revision of the topic over half term.
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 21st:
1. Begin your slavery museum with an introduction and the artefacts in the first two rooms:
- Africa before the Atlantic slave trade
- The capture of the slaves
Homework for Tuesday, Oct 14th:
1. Make sure you have finished the speech.
2. Read pages 8 & 9 of the orange text book and explain how the slave traders tried to ensure they got the best price for the slaves, then explain the three main ways in which slaves were sold.
3. Do the worksheet entitled "Why did people support slavery?"
Work for the week beginning Sept 29th and homework due in on Tuesday, October 7th:
Do the activities on the iTunesU course:
You are now going to study the Triangular Trade which involved taking slaves from West Africa across the Atlantic to America in a journey known as the Middle Passage.
1. Write a few sentences to explain what the triangular trade was.
2. Now do a sketch map to show how the triangular trade worked - make sure you include labels and a key.
3. Write a detailed description of what happened on each leg of the journey.
4. How did the slave trade benefit Britain? Complete activities 2, 3 & 4 on the sheet you have been given about this too.
5. Read pages 12-13 of your text book and examine the map carefully.
Which other countries apart from Britain were involved in the slave trade and where did they trade slaves?
6. Why were the death rates so high even before the slaves were exported (see p13 of your text book).
7. Use the book Britain and the Slave Trade pages 6-7 to explain how and why the slave traders got the slaves.
The Middle Passage:
Produce a historical report on the Middle Passage. You should write about how the slaves were captured, how they were treated and what conditions were like. Remember to use sources of evidence to back up and illustrate your points and explain where you came from. You should use your text book pages 12, 13 16 & 17, the sheets you have been given, Britain and the Slave trade pages 6-7 & 10-11.
Extension work: (if you have time during class or homework):
Read pages 70-71 of Peace and War about the case of the slave ship Zong and write a speech for the ship's insurance company saying why you think the slave owners should not be paid any money.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 30th:
1. Finish off the work on the contacts between Africa and the rest of the world and the questions on America.
Homework for Tuesday, Sept 16th:
1. Cover your exercise book with images from the topics we will study this year.
2. Finish the worksheet "Africa in about 1600".
Homework for Wednesday, Sept 10th:
1. Do the title page for Slavery and the Slave Trade
