GCSE HISTORY9-1

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Your course outline:

Year 10: Paper 1MedicineEnvironment Study

Year 9: Paper 2Elizabeth IUSA Indians

Year 11: Paper 3GermanyRevision

Expectations: YOU• Always try YOUR best• If you’re stuck – ASK•Complete HW to the best of your

ability• If you’re off – CATCH UP (It all

counts now)• Independence - You’ll need to

take control of YOUR learning

Expectations: US•We’ll teach you everything you

need for success• Be on hand to help ANYTIME• Support you ONLINE• Provide timely feedback on

assessments / tests• Encourage your independence

Yr 11: GCSE

Yr10: Mock Exam

Yr11: Mock Exam

Yr9: Classwork & effort will make all the difference later on It’s really all about: ATTITUDE, the one thing we’re all able to control

Class tests / assessments are CRUCIAL

Stick this in your books

Question Types for Paper 2 (Part B)

B1-2

B3-4

B5

B6

B7

B8-9

Write the 3 question

types down

Make a list of the

connectives

Early Elizabethan England 1558-1588This course is your British Depth Study.

1) Queen, Government & Religion 1558-69

2) Challenges to Elizabeth from home and abroad 1569-88

3) Elizabethan Society in the age of exploration 1558-88

• Elizabeth’s ‘middle ground’ Religious Settlement• Mary, Queen of Scots & her execution

3 key units within:

• Plots & Rebellion against Elizabeth• Spanish Armada & Pirates: War with Spain

• Education & Leisure• The Poor• Exploration and discoveries in the New World

Timeline of key events:

1555 1560 1565 1570 1575 1580 1585 1590 1595 1600 1605

1558 Elizabeth crowned Queen

of England

1559 Religious Settlement inc.Supremacy & Uniformity +

Royal injunctions

1563 Statute of Artificers

1568 Mary, Queen of Scots

arrives in England 1569 Northern

Rebellion

1570 Pope Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth

1571 Ridolfi Plot1572 Vagabonds Act

1576 Poor Relief Act

1583 Throckmorton

Plot

1585 All Catholic Priests ordered to leave the country

1586 Babington

Plot

1587 Mary, Queen of

Scots executed

1603 Elizabeth I

dies 1605 Guy Fawkes –Gunpowder

plotHO

ME

ABRO

AD

1560 Treaty of

Edinburgh

1566 Dutch Revolt

1568 Genoese

Loan

1576 The Spanish

Fury1576 The

Pacification of Ghent

1577-80 Francis Drake

circumnavigates the world

1559Treaty of Cateau-

Cambresis

1580Drake is

knighted on the Golden

Hind

1585Treaty of

Nonsuch – War begins with

England & Spain

1584Treaty of Joinville

1585First English

colony - Virginia

1586Surviving colonists abandon Virginia

15872nd attempt to

colonise Roanoke - successful

1587Drake ‘Singes the

kings beard’ in Cadiz

1588Philip II sends the

Armada –defeated at the

Battle of Gravelines

1590English sailors

arrive at Roanoke to find it

abandoned

Plots/War

Tudor facts:■ Average life expectance was between 28 & 41■ Population in England & Wales rose from 2 to 4 million

from Henry VIII to Elizabeth■ 10% of people lived in the towns, the rest spread about in

the country■ Hundreds of people were put to death every year by being

hung, burned, hung-drawn-quartered, boiled alive in water or oil

■ Religion was the main reason for these executions■ Whipping boys were often used …■ Elizabeth had 2000 dresses■ Boys wore girls clothes until they were 9 then they

dressed and acted like adults

■ Tudors ate very cleanly, they believe cleanliness was next to Godliness

Money facts:Farthing = 1/4 pennyHalf penny = 1/2 penny Threefarthing = 3/4 pennyPenny = 1 penny = 1d Half groat = 2 pennies = 2dGroat = 4 pennies = 4dSixpence = 6 pennies = 6dShilling = 12 pennies = 1s Half crown = 30 pennnies = 2s 6d Quarter angel = 30 pennies = 2s 6d Crown = 60 pennies = 5s Half angel = 60 pennies = 5s Angel = 120 pennies = 10s Half pound = 120 pennies = 10s Pound = 240 pence = 20s = £1 Fine Sovereign = 360 pence = 30s = £1 10s

Jobs:A nobleman£1500-3000 p/y

A Merchant£100 per year

A carpenter£13 per year

A labourer£5-10 per year

1 Tudor £1 = £4755 today