Unit 3: Europe in the 19th Century

Lessons

Topics Covered

Formative
Assessments

The Industrial
Revolution

Causes & effects, the

impact on class, the
influence of liberalism,
the historiographical
consensus.

Positives/Negatives
Worksheet

Liberalism &
Conservatism

Hallmarks of a liberal
society, British
exceptionalism, social
welfare, political reform,
famine management,
Victorian prisons.

Revolutions of 1848

Influence of nationalism
& liberalism, July
Monarchy, Philhellenic
Movement, Belgian
independence

Unification of Italy &

Germany

Revolutionary efforts of
Mazzini and Garibaldi,
Victor Emmanuel II, the
rise of Prussia, Otto von
Bismarck

Romanticism, Realism,
& Impressionism

Transitions between
Art Movements
movements, the PreWorksheet
Raphaelites, novels of
realism, Romantic poetry

Religion & Darwin

Crises of faith, Social

Darwinism (Spencer,
Galton), the legacy of
Darwin (Scopes Monkey
Trial, Pope Francis
pronouncement),
Victorian religion

Darwins
Correspondence

Urbanisation & Mass

Consumption

Haussman, class in the

Victorian city (slums),
the problems of
capitalism, consumption
in the home, organised
leisure, crime in the city

Analysis of Victorian
Advertising

Queen Victoria & 19thCentury Women

Florence Nightingale,
Mary Seacole, Harriet
Taylor, Annie Besant,
Elizabeth Gaskell,
Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson, Julia
Margaret Cameron

I See, I Think, I Wonder

(The Great Exhibition of
1851)

Summative
Evaluations

Image Analysis of
Delacroixs Liberty
Leading the People

Documentary Analysis
(Dec 8)

Unit 3: Europe in the 19th Century

Lessons

Topics Covered

Formative
Assessments

Imperialism in Africa

King Leopold II and the

Belgian Congo, the
scramble for Africa,
Berlin Conference, Cecil
Rhodes, Boer Wars

Imperialism in Asia

Saids concept
Orientalism, postcolonialism, empire in
India, China, Southeast
Asia, & Japan

Imperialism from
Europe

Ireland, the view of

empire from the
perspective of
transported convicts,
selling the empire to
Europeans

Image Analysis using the

LACE Framework

Bodies, Race, &

Imperialism

Racial categorisation
(eugenics, phrenology,
physiognomy)

Imperial Narratives
Presentation

Mass Politics

Socialism, communism,
feminism, Marx &
Engels, suffragettes,
popular political action

Primary Source Analysis

(The Communist
Manifesto)

Migration &
Immigration

Labour arrangements in
North America (padrone
system), pogroms in
eastern Europe

Review

Summative
Evaluations

Unit Test (Dec 11)

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT:
Documentary analysis of the BBCs History of Britain (Episode 5: Queen Victoria and Her Sisters). Students are
to complete an analysis similar to a book report, focusing on audience, style, presentation, content, and
persuasiveness. Students will also be given two academic secondary sources, which are to be referenced in
their final report.
SCAFFOLDING:
Skills to be developed in advance of the Documentary Analysis:
image analysis (LACE framework, analysis of artwork)
investigation of multiple perspectives (discussions about historiographical schools, consideration of multiple
perspectives on events)
primary source analysis (examination of primary sources in order to explore the choices historians make in
crafting versions of history: what is omitted and what is included; how does analysis contribute to a popular
understanding of historical events)