Year 8 History | Rye College

What our students will learn in Year 8

Our Year 8 curriculum builds on the historical skills that they will need throughout the History Curriculum at Rye College starting with the infamous 'Gunpowder Plot', building on this knowledge we look at forms of crime and punishment. We explore the slave trade and Victorian society and finish the year with an introduction to the twentieth century.

Our termly overview

Term	Topic	Content Overview	Vocabulary	Vocabulary
1	Taking it to extremes	What happened in the ‘Gunpowder Plot’? How were leaders chosen in the 17th Century? Why did Regicide happen? How do you try a King? Why were people travelling the world? How much had medicine improved? Conspiracy	Conspiracy Plotting Explosion Aggrieved Framed Plotter Plot Dynasty Merit Promotion Nepotism Cavalier Roundhead Parliamentarian Traditional Meritocracy Catholic	Prosecution Divine Right Omnipotent Arrogant Inevitable Deliberation Carnivals Frivolity Banned Settlement Relocation Persecution Proclamation Quarantine Civil War Protestant
2	Slavery	What was the Trans-Siberian Slave Trade? What beliefs allowed the slave trade to flourish? What was life like for a slave? How did slaves escape? How was the slave trade abolished?	Trans-Atlantic Slavery Oppression Middle-Passage Commerce Manufacture Trade Triangle Respectable Justification Ethics Civilisation Abolish Abolitionist Petitions Organised Anti-Slavery Empathy Claustrophobic Appalling	Malaria Mistreatment Active Rebellion Passive Resistance Underground Railroad Supporter Conductor Insurrection Pamphlets Boycott Freeman Illiterate Politicians Cramped Auction Plantation Habitation Exploitation
3	Victoria	What were the benefits of having an empire? How was Africa divided up? What was the most important invention of the Victorian era? What were the conditions in the factories? What were the conditions like in Victorian towns? How was Cholera tackled?	Empire Colony Oligarchy Sovereign State Dependency Protectorate Dominion Ambition Bismark Conference Scramble for Africa Inconsiderate Arbitrary Self-Governing Conflict Vital Supplies Casualties Wounded Invention Spinning Jenny Posed Consulted Obscure Epoch Memoirs Generation Precious Commodity Comprised Recollections Census Destitute	Industrial Slums Overseer Laissez Faire Industrial Revolution Child Labour Over-Crowding Sanitation Terrace Housing Back-to-Back Housing Exploitation Sewage Unhygienic Filthy Epidemiology Bacterium Dehydration Socio-Economic Class Residents Contamination Parish Delicate Condition Dispatched Escalated Nuptials Lowest Ebb Compounded Pawned Solace Privations Oppressed
4	Crime and Punishment	How did Victorian life compare to ours? What was crime and punishment in the Middle Ages like? Did the Tudors change the Medieval system? Why were witches treated so harshly? Why did we have the Bloody Code? Why was transportation used?	Perpetrator Tithing Hue and Cry Stock Constable Pillory Ordeals Law Enforcement Penalties Retribution Malice Criminalised Gibbeting	Transportation Compensation Deterrence Faggots Vagrants Witches Mark Witchfinder Damnation Capital Punishment Bloody Code Press-Gang
5	Crime and Punishment	Who were the ‘Highwaymen’? Why was John Breeds hanged? What was London like in 1888? Who were the first modern police? Who was Jack the Ripper?	Highway Man Executed Poaching Burglary Accomplice Assassination Grudge Solitary Presiding Magistrate Guilty Sanitary Missionary Confinement Widow Wretched Smog Parliament Home Secretary Metropolitan	Modus Operandi Whitechapel Prostitute Destitute Alcoholic Witness Interpretation Biased Victims Exaggerated Impression Suspect Apprehending Investigation Evidence Truncheon Scenarios Aptitude Situations Vacant
6	Introduction to the Twentieth Century World	What was life like in 1900? What were the long-term causes of WW1? How did international relations increase the tension in Europe? What was the spark that started WW1? How were men recruited to the army? How does WW1 relate to me?	Feminist Dominant Parlour Subsistence Level Alliance Militarise Negotiation Imperialism Nationalism Arms Race Entente Inevitable Mobilisation Ancestry Patriotic Sarajevo Bosnia Explosion Assassination Heir Propaganda	Voluntary Recruitment Inference General Kitchener Memorial Conscription Servicemen Artillery Fatalities Telegrams Regiment Sacrifice Tommies Epitaph Cenotaph