SUBJECT: THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN

COURSE: An illustrated history of Britain

PUBLISHING HOUSE: Longman
TEACHER: P.M. STOLERU
CLASSES: 1h/week
SCHOOL YEAR: 2015/2016
GRADE: XB
In conformitate cu OMECI 3410/2009, Anexa 1
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Aviz director,
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Aviz responsabil C.M.,
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PLANIFICARE CALENDARISTIC
SEMESTRUL I
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Crt
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0
1

Coninutul tematic al unitilor de

nvmnt
(1)
INTRODUCING THE NEW
COURSE
UNIT 1
EARLIEST TIMES

Competene specifice vizate

(2)
-to present the topic of the course, the project
works,etc..
a.The foundations stones
-The island
-Britains prehistory
-The Celts\ The Romans
b.The Saxon invasion
-The invaders
-Government and society\Christianity
..-The Vikings
c.The Celtic kingdoms

Nr.
ore
(3)

Sptmna

(4)
S1

S2-S3

S4

Observaii

(5)

-Wales,Ireland,Scotland

UNIT 2
THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

TEST PAPER

UNIT 3
THE LATE MIDDLE AGE

a.Conquest and feudal rule

-The Norman Conquest
-Feudalism\Kingship:a family business
-Magna Carta and the decline of
feudalism
b.The power of the kings of England
-Church and state
-The beginnings of Parliament
-Dealing with the Celts
c.Government and society
-The growth of government
-Law and justice
-Religious belifes
-Ordinary people in country and town
-The growth of towns as centres of
wealth
-Langusge, literature and culture

a.The century of war, plague and disorder

-War with Scotland and France
-The age of chivalry
-The century of plagues
-The poor in revolt

S5

S6-S7

S8

S9

S10

S11-S12

UNIT 4
THE TUDORS

-Heresy and ortodoxy

b.The crisis of kings and nobles
-The crisis of kingship
Wales in revolt
The struggle in France
-The Wars of the Roses
-Scotland
c.Government and society
-Government and society
-The condition of women
-Language and culture
a.The birth of the nation state
-The new monarchy
-The Reformation
-The Protestant-Catholic struggle
b.England and her neighbours
-The new foreign policy
-The new trading empire
-Wales
-Ireland
-Scotland and England
-Mary Queen of Scots and the Scottish
Reformation
-A Scottish king for England
c.Government and society
-Tudor parliaments
-Rich and poor in town and country
-Domestic life
-Language and culture

S13

S14

S15

S16

S17
1

REVISION

S18

SEMESTRUL II
7

UNIT 5
THE STUARTS

UNIT 6
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

a.Crown and Parliament

-Parliament against the Crown
-Religious disagreement
-Civil war
b.Republican and Restoration Britain
-Republican Britain
-Catholicism, the Crown and the new
constitutional monarchy
-Scotland and Ireland
-Foreing relations
c.Life and thought
-The revolution in thought
-Life and work in the Stuart age
Family life

S1-2

S3

S4

a.The political world

-Politics and finance
-Wilkes and liberry
-Radicalism and the loss of the
American colonies
-Ireland
-Scotland
b.Life in town and country
-Town life
-The rich
-The countryside
-Family life
c.The years of revolution

S5-6

S7

S8

-Industrial revolution
Society and religion
-Revolution in France and the
Napoleonic Wars
9

TEST PAPER

10

UNIT 7
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

11

UNIT 8
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

a.The years of power and danger

The danger at home, 1815-32
-Reform
-Workers revolt
-Family life
b.The years of self-confidence
-The railway
-The rise of the middle classes
-The growth of towns and cities
-Population and politics
-Queen and monarchy
-Queen and empire
-Wales, Scotland and Ireland
c.The end of an age
-Social and economic improvements
-The importances of sport
-Changes in thinking
-The end of Englands summer
-The storm clouds of war
a.Britain at war
-The First World War
-The rise of the Labour Party

S9
(*S10)

S11-12

S13

S14

S15-16

-The rights of women

-Ireland
-Disappointment and depression
-The Second World War
b.The age of uncertainty
-The new international order
-The welfare state
-Youthful Britain
-A popular monarchy
-The loss of empire
-Britain, Europe and the United States
-Northern Ireland
-Scotland and Wales
-The years of discontent
-The new politics
-Britain:past, present and future
12

REVISION

*S10 Scoala altfel

S17-18