Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016
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Enable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert narrative and extended reading, including bespoke essays from leading academics
- Build a strong understanding of the period studied with authoritative, well-researched content written in an accessible and engaging style
- Ensure continual improvement in students' essay writing, interpretation and source analysis skills, using practice questions and trusted guidance on successfully answering exam-style questions
- Encourage students to undertake rolling revision and self-assessment by referring to end-of-chapter summaries and diagrams across the years
- Help students monitor their progress and consolidate their knowledge through note-making activities and peer-support tasks
- Provide students with the opportunity to analyse and evaluate works of real history, with specially commissioned historians' essays and extracts from academic works on the historical interpretations
Papildus informācija
Develop high-level skills in Edexcel A Level History through expert narrative and extended reading, including bespoke essays from current academics in the historical interpretations section.
0: Introduction
Paper 1: Britain transformed, 191897
Theme 1: A changing political and economic environment, 191879
1a: A changing political landscape
1b: Responding to economic challenges
1c: Change and challenge in the workplace
Theme 2: Creating a welfare state, 191879
2a: Providing social welfare
2b: Public health
2c: Education and widening opportunities
Theme 3: Society in transition, 191879
3a: Class and social values
3b: The changing role and status of women
3c: Race and immigration
Theme 4: The changing quality of life
4a: Changing living standards
4b: The changing role and status of women
4c: Race and immigration
Historical interpretations: What impact did Thatchers governments have on
Britain 197997?
Paper 2: The USA, 192055: boom, bust and recovery
Key topic 1: Boom and crash, 192038
Section 1: The economic boom of the 1920s
Section 2: Causes of the Wall Street Crash
Section 3: Changes in society
Section 4: Cultural changes in the 1920s
Key topic 2: Depression and the New Deal 192938
Section 1: The spread of the Depression 192932
Section 2: Hoovers response to the Depression 192932
Section 3: Roosevelt and the First New Deal 193335
Section 4: The Second New Deal 193538
Key topic 3: Impact of the New Deal and the Second World War on the USA to
1945
Section 1: The New Deal and the economy
Section 2: The impact of the New Deal and the war on ethnic minorities
Section 3: Social and cultural changes
Section 4: The war and the economy 194145
Key topic 4: The transformation of the USA, 194554
Section 1: Economic transformation
Section 2: The end of post-war euphoria
Section 3: Cultural change
Section 4: The changing status of minorities
Paper 2: The USA, 195592: conformity and challenge
Key topic 1: Affluence and conformity, 195563
Section 1: Urbanisation and affluence
Section 2: Cultural conformity and challenge
Section 3: The civil rights movement
Section 4: Kennedys New Frontier
Key topic 2: Protest and reaction, 196372
Section 1: Civil rights
Section 2: Johnsons Great Society
Section 3: Protest and personal freedom
Section 4: Reactions to the counter-culture, 196872
Key topic 3: Social and political change, 197380
Section 1: The crisis of political leadership
Section 2: The impact of economic change on society
Section 3: Changing popular culture
Section 4: The extent of progress in individual and civil rights
Key topic 4: Republican dominance and its opponents 198192
Section 1: New directions in economic policy
Section 2: The Religious Right and its critics
Section 3: Cultural challenge
Section 4: Social change
Nick Shepley is a teacher, writer and the creator of the Explaining History series of ebooks and website. He worked as a history head of department and now divides his time between history writing and work for the Holocaust Education Trust. Vivienne Sanders has written extensively and successfully on American history in the Access to History series. She taught A Level History for over 30 years, mostly in independent schools, and is now retired. Peter Clement is a retired Head of Humanities with an M Phil in Educational Research and MAs in American Studies and Education. He is an experienced examiner at 'A' level and GCSE. He has written titles in the Access to History, History + for Edexcel A Level and My Revision Notes series. Robin Bunce is a historian of political thought based at Cambridge University. He is currently Director of Studies for Politics at Homerton College, and a Fellow in History at St Edmund's College. His most recent work focuses on Black Power as an ideology and a movement in Britain.
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