History

Assessment

A-level students must take assessments in all three of the following units: Unit 1: Breadth study - The Tudors: England, 1485-1603 - 2hr 30min examination (40% of A level) This will be a study in breadth looking at issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence in this period. Year 12: Part one: Consolidation of the Tudor Dynasty: England, 1485-1547. • Henry VII, 1485-1509 ,Henry VIII, 1509-1547. Year 13: Part two: England: turmoil and triumph, 1547-1603 • Instability and consolidation: ‘the Mid-Tudor Crisis’, 1547-1563. • The triumph of Elizabeth, 1563-1603. Unit 2: Depth study: Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918- 1945 - 2hr 30min examination (40% of A level) This topic is a study in depth of a period of German history during which a newly developed democratic form of government gave way to a dictatorial Nazi regime. Year 12: Part one: The Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 • The Establishment and early years of Weimar, 1918-1924 • The ‘Golden Age’ of the Weimar Republic, 1924-1928 • The Collapse of Democracy, 1928-1933 Year 13: Part two: Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 • The Nazi Dictatorship, 1933-1939 • The Racial State, 1933-1941 • The impact of War, 1939-1945 Unit 3: Historical investigation (Personal study) Civil Rights Movement in the USA 1863-1968 - 20% of A Level. This will be independently researched and written in the form of a piece of extended writing of between 3,000 and 3,500 words in length. It will cover a 100 year period tracing the developments in AfricanAmerican civil rights in the USA from slavery to the Civil Rights acts of the 1960’s