Year 10 Curriculum Information Booklet 2017-2018
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History<br />
Unit 1 – America 1920 - 1973<br />
Students will study the following:<br />
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‘The Boom’ – benefits, advertising<br />
and the consumer society<br />
Social and cultural developments<br />
Organised crime and prohibition<br />
American society during the<br />
Depression<br />
Roosevelt and his election as<br />
President<br />
The New Deal<br />
The impact o<br />
Impact of the Second World War<br />
The American Dream<br />
McCarthyism<br />
Racial Tensions and The Civil Rights<br />
Movement<br />
Unit 2 – Health and the People Medieval Medicine – Galenic<br />
Methods<br />
The contribution of Christianity to<br />
medicine and its development<br />
Public Health in the Middle Ages<br />
The Black Death in Britain<br />
The impact of the Renaissance on<br />
Britain<br />
Dealing with disease – quackery<br />
and the growth of hospitals<br />
The prevention of disease – Jenner,<br />
inoculation and vaccination<br />
Germ theory and pharmaceutics<br />
A revolution in surgery<br />
Improvements to public health<br />
Penicillin<br />
The impact of war and technology<br />
on medicine<br />
Modern public health<br />
Unit 3 – Medieval England Government, the rights of King and<br />
People<br />
Trade, towns and villages<br />
Education and learning – the<br />
Church and universities<br />
The Development of the legal<br />
system
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