Year 8 Home Learning Support: Recent Episodes
Miss Ludlow
Lesson Four - Eighteenth Century gains and losses
✓ Understand where and why the British Empire expanded during the 18th Century.
✓ Consider the consequences of the Seven Years War for the British Empire.
✓ Understand why the 13 American colonies fought for their independence.
Controlling Trade in the Atlantic
✓ To know key vocabulary and use it in the correct context.
✓ To understand the rise and fall of piracy and the reasons for this.
✓ To link previous learning when completing a written task on control.
Lesson Two - Extending and controlling the Empire
✓ To know why the British were interested in colonising the Caribbean.
✓ To understand how the British government attempted to control trade within the Empire.
Lesson One - The origins of the British Empire
✓ To understand where and when the British Empire existed.
✓ Understand how Britain's early colonies in North America were established.
✓ Identify the reasons for British expansion in the Americas.