HISTORY - What You Will Learn

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Year 7 Key Questions

Unit 1 What's it all about?

• Who is the most important person I know about in History?
• What are we going to find out about in yrs 7, 8 and 9?
• What's History got to do with me?

Unit 2  How did Medieval monarchs keep control?

• How did William of Normandy take control of England?
• How did William the Conqueror secure control of England?
• How successful were English Monarchs in extending their boundaries?
• How did monarchs use law and order as an instrument of control?
• Church or State, Who was in control?
• What happened when monarchs lost control?
• Controlling the succession:- could women rule?

Unit 3  How hard was life for medieval people in town and country?

• What does the Domesday book tell us about life in town & country?
• Was life always hard for medieval peasants?
• Was life any better in a Medieval town?
• Why was the Black Death so terrifying?
• Why was there a Peasants Revolt in 1381?
• How hard was life for most people in town & country?

Unit 4  How did the Medieval church affect people's lives?

• Why are so many of the surviving buildings from the Middle Ages, churches?
• What impact did parish churches have on people's lives?
• What impact did monks and nuns have on people's lives?
• Why did people go on pilgrimages?
• Was everyone in Britain a Christian?
• Were there rumblings of discontent?

Unit 5  Elizabeth I; how successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign?

• Why was religion a life or death problem in Elizabethan England?
• Why did the conception of Elizabeth present a problem to her father?
• What religious changes were taking place in the rest of Europe?
• What did Elizabeth do about the religious problem in England?
• Were Catholics or Puritans the greater threat to Elizabeth's religious settlement?
• Why did Mary, Queen of Scots, pose such a big problem for Elizabeth I?
• Why did Philip of Spain pose such a big problem for Elizabeth I?
• How did Elizabeth deal with the problem of marriage?
• How did Elizabeth deal with the problem of poor people & beggars?
• Did Elizabeth successfully solve the problems of her reign?

Unit 7  Images of an Age; what can we learn from portraits 1500-1750?

• Why do powerful people take great care about the way they are shown in portraits?
• How did Elizabeth I want herself to be portrayed?
• Getting the message?
• Who was powerful?
• What don't portraits tell us?
• What were the most important images of the age?

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