Dying for the Vote Pupil's Book: This is History

Summary:
This is History! is the Schools History Project's Key Stage 3 scheme of work for National Curriculum history. Through a combination of in-depth and overview units, it offers a varied, relevant and challenging scheme of work for the whole Key Stage 3 history programme of study.



This text is a depth study about the Chartists and the Suffragettes. The main task is for pupils to create an advertising campaign to persuade some apathetic couch potatoes to vote in an election. Their campaign is to be built around the historical example set by the Chartists and the Suffragettes, some of whom were prepared to die to win the right to vote. The task builds steadily through the book as, unit by unit, pupils work on a poster, then a leaflet, then a web page and finally a short television advert to add to their campaign. The campaign has a strong literacy element with persuasive writing being analysed and modelled and pupil writing being carefully structured.



The book also has a strong citizenship thrust providing the third episode (after King John and 'King' Cromwell?) and summarising the development of parliamentary democracy in Britain.


PLEASE NOTE: The accompanying teacher's resource book for this title
can be downloaded for free at www.hoddereducation.co.uk/thisishistory

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Can you persuade the couch potatoes to vote?
Section 1: Why did people die for the vote in the 1800s…and did it do any good?
1.1 Why were people so angry in 1830?
Discover why people were angry and how this led them to fight for the vote
1.2 Would join the Chartists?
Go inside a tavern in Halifax and decide whether to join the Chartists
1.3 Did the Chartists succeed?
Find out how the campaign continued throughout the 1800s
Section 2: Why did women die for the vote?
2.1 Why did women need the vote?
The reasons why women did not have the vote and why they needed it!
2.2 How did women try to get the vote?
Find out why Emily Davison died for the vote
2.3 Why did women get the vote?
Was it thanks to the suffragettes' violent campaign or a different kind of violence?
Section 3: Conclusions
3.1 Did voting make a difference?
3.2 Why is voting important?
3.3 Heroes and heroines
3.4 History is about us!

About the Author(s):
Jane Richardson is Head of History at Egglescliffe School in Humberside and is an SHP trainer. Ian Dawson was formerly Director of SHP.