KS4 Long Term Overview: Year 11

Subject: GCSE History

Year 10

Autumn Term 2007 Spring Term 2008 Summer Term 2008

Unit Focus: Crime through Time c1500-2008 Half Term 1
– 4 weeks (16 lessons) Unit Focus: Responses to Protest (3 weeks)
• Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars
• Trades Unions and Tolpuddle
• Highwaymen
• Witches
Martyrs
• Poachers • Conscientious Objection WWI/WWII
• Smugglers • Poll Tax Protests 1990-2
• Garrotters, pickpockets, artful dodgers • Dealing with Terrorism – July 7 2005
• Modern crimes: shoplifting, car crime,
Assessment: Exam Questions
computer crime, tax evasion, people
smuggling, racist crime, domestic abuse. (Source Analysis Questions for latter 3
Assessment: Exam Questions topics)
Unit Focus: Policing and Crime Prevention
c1500-2008 – 4 weeks (16 lessons)
• JPs, constables, Charleys, watchmen
• Fielding & Bow Street Runners
REVISION EXAMS
• Peel & Metropolitan Police
• Development of police forces
• Attitudes to police – changes American West Revision:
• Modern police techniques and roles • Plains Indians
• Crime prevention, neighbourhood watch, • Settling the West
surveillance etc – focus: Terrorism July 7 etc • Conflict on the Plains
Assessment: Exam Questions
Unit Focus: Punishments and Attitudes Assessment: Exam Questions
c1500-2008 – 4 weeks (16 lessons)
• Corporal punishment, ducking stools, scolds
bridles, flogging, mutilation, branding
• Capital punishment – rise and fall of the
Bloody Code
• Transportation to the colonies
• Rise of prison industry – Bridewells and
Houses of Correction, Pentonville,
Silent/Separate Systems
• Prison reformers – Howard, Fry
• The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty from
Tyburn to Timothy Evans
• Juvenile punishment – Borstal System
• Modern punishments – open prisons,
community service, tagging, rehabilitation.