KHS History Department

Help with literacy:

Click HERE to see the department Policy upon Literacy
Click HERE to go to help with numeracy

Click HERE to go to Key Stage 3 and HERE for Key Stage 4 (G.C.S.E., C.O.E.A.) word and name help

Here are some useful web sites that offer general guidance for pupils and parents. Worksheets and exercises to try at home are included upon some of the sites.

English Club -Grammar, pronunciation, Vocabulary, Quizzes, reading exercises, etc.:

http://www.englishclub.net/

BBC Online - Listen and write poetry. Age range = 9-11. Including Rap Realm, Wonderwords, Similie Satellite and Showcase (for finished poems):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/listenandwrite/home.htm

Dictionary.com - Ask questions about words, grammar and language, or look up words as you would with a conventional dictionary:

http://www.dictionary.com/

English Basics - Download weekly grammar worksheets

http://www.rhlschool.com/english.htm

English Companion - A wealth of information, advice and activities:

http://www.englishcompanion.com/

Word Check:

Below are some key words as listed upon the DFEE Framework for teaching English web page. The historically themed words have been chosen (after a survey of schools) as those that pupils at Key Stage 3 find the most difficult to spell. It may be an idea for parents, or pupils, to print out these words in order to form short spelling tests.

agriculture/agricultural          bias          castle          cathedral          Catholic         

Chronology/chronological          citizen          civilisation          colony/colonisation         

conflict         constitution/constitutional          contradict/contradiction          current

defence          disease          document          dynasty          economy/economical 

emigration          government          immigrant          imperial/imperialism

independence          invasion          motive          parliament          politics/political

priest          propaganda          Protestant          rebel/rebellion          reign

religious          republic          revolt/revolution          siege          source          trade

traitor

Here are some words that are not listed above that the History Department at K.H.S. have noted as causing some pupils spelling difficulties:

Year 7: Wales and the Medieval World, c.1000-1500

armour          battle          comet            Feudalism          hierarchy          manor         

monastery/monasteries          monk          murder/murderer         peasant          traitor          

Year 8: Wales and Britain in the Early Modern World, c.1500-1760

Cavalier          council         Elizabeth          execution/executioner          heir

 Henry        monarch          monastery/monasteries          soldier         sovereign

succession          traitor          witchcraft

Year 9: Wales in Industrial Britain and the Twentieth Century World

armistice          barbed wire          bayonet          charter/Chartists          industry/industrial

machines/machinery          Mametz         Merthyr          mutiny          petition          Rebecca

rifle          soldier          surrender          trenches          violence

General Words

anxious          attack          calm          diarrhoea       excited         request

Choosing the correct word 

was/were         is/are

Choosing the correct spelling

          there/their/they're          here/hear          

Key Stage 4 - G.C.S.E., C.O.E.A.

Some key words and phrases for Weimar and Nazi Germany:

annihilation          armistice         aryan          coalition          Fuhrer        gauleiter

Gestapo          indoctrination          knives (Night of the Long Knives)         

Kristallnacht          lebensraum (Living Space)          military          persecution         

 propaganda          proportional representation          putsch          rally/rallies         

Reich         Reichstag          Republic          revolution          Social Darwinism

Shutz-Staffel (SS)          Spartacists         treaty          untermenschen (sub human)       

Versailles         volk (people)       

Some key names for Weimar and Nazi Germany:

Marinus van der Lubbe - Dutch Communist supposedly responsible for setting fire to the 
                                      Reichstag on 27th February 1933

Josef Goebbels - Minister for Propaganda

Hermann Goering - Head of the Luftwaffe (German Airforce) and introduced the Four Year
                              Plan in 1936.

Paul von Hindenburg - President of Germany, died 2nd August 1934

Heinrich Himmler - Head of the SS

Adolf Hitler - Leader of the Nazi Party (NASDP) and Germany from 1933-1945

Robert Ley - Head of the German Labour Front which set hours and wages and disciplined
                    workers who broke the rules

Wolfgang Kapp - Leader of Right Wing Nationalists who tried to take control of Berlin in
                         1920

Karl Liebknicht - One of the leaders of the Spartacist (Communists) Rising in 1919

Rosa Luxembourg - One of the leaders of the Spartacist (Communists) Rising in 1919

Ernst Rohm - Leader of the S.A. (Brownshirts) until killed by Hitler and the Nazis in 1934

Gustav Stresemann - Chancellor of Germany for a short period in 1923, then Foreign
                                Minister until 1929

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