History for Common Entrance
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Medieval Realms for Common Entrance and Key Stage 3 2nd Edition
by Martin Collier and Rosemary Rees
Ensure your pupils are thoroughly prepared for the new-style Common Entrance History examinations with this revised edition of a best-selling, ISEB-endorsed textbook.
The first edition of Medieval Realms became a best-seller because of the way it combined step-by-step building of pupils historical understanding and skill with thoughtful and targeted exam preparation. This second edition faithfully retains that approach while thoroughly revising the exam advice to cover the new approach to source evaluation required for the Common Entrance examinations from 2015.
Key features of our approach:
- Read! The bold, meaty and authoritative narrative provides clear explanation of the content
- Think! For each topic carefully constructed tasks build pupil's understanding of the content
- Prepare! There is also extensive advice and practice in how to write Common Entrance essays and how to evaluate historical sources to ensure pupils are thoroughly prepared for the Common Entrance examination.
Plus a new feature for the second edition: 'An historian writes..' - accessible but stimulating insights from secondary sources which contribute to pupils' wider understanding of the topic and expose them to historical viewpoints on the events they are studying.
The Making of the UK for Common Entrance and Key Stage 3
by Rosemary Rees, Colin Shephard, and Martin Collier
Motivate and thoroughly prepare your pupils for Common Entrance history exams with these ISEB-endorsed textbooks.
The Making of the UK for Common Entrance and Key Stage 3 covers the Early Modern period of British History - especially focusing on:
- The Tudors - the challenges, successes and failures of Tudor monarchs
- The Stuarts - particularly the causes and consequences of the English Civil War
- The Restoration - the return of the king and changes taking place in the United Kingdom.
Key features of our approach:
- A bold, meaty and authoritative narrative providing clear explanation of the content
- Carefully constructed tasks developing pupils understanding of the content and building their extended writing skills - particularly preparing them for the challenge of the Common Entrance essay
- Source Investigations on each of the current and planned nominated topics in the syllabus
- Advice on how to prepare for the Common Entrance examination.
Additional features:
- 'What?' and 'Who?' boxes throughout the text develop historical vocabulary and biographical knowledge.
- 'Did you know?' boxes focus on fascinating, amusing, or illuminating details of history - trivia with a purpose.
The Making of the UK for Common Entrance and Key Stage 3 2nd edition
by Rosemary Rees, Colin Shephard, and Martin Collier
Ensure your pupils are thoroughly prepared for the new-style Common Entrance History examinations with this revised edition of a best-selling, ISEB-endorsed textbook.
The first edition of Making of the UK became a best-seller because of the way it combined step-by-step building of pupils' historical understanding and skill with thoughtful and targeted exam preparation. This second edition faithfully retains that approach while thoroughly revising the exam advice to cover the new approach to source evaluation required for the Common Entrance examinations from 2015.
Key features of our approach:
- Read! The bold, meaty and authoritative narrative provides clear explanation of the content
- Think! For each topic carefully constructed tasks build pupil's understanding of the content
- Prepare! There is also extensive advice and practice in how to write Common Entrance essays and how to evaluate historical sources to ensure pupils are thoroughly prepared for the Common Entrance examination.
Plus a new feature for the second edition: 'An historian writes..' - accessible but stimulating insights from secondary sources which contribute to pupils' wider understanding of the topic and expose them to historical viewpoints on the events they are studying.
Medieval Realms for Common Entrance and Key Stage 3
by Rosemary Rees, Colin Shephard, and Martin Collier
Motivate and thoroughly prepare your pupils for Common Entrance history exams with these ISEB-endorsed textbooks.
Medieval Realms for Common Entrance and Key Stage 3 covers the popular topic Medieval Britain - especially focusing on:
- Good and bad monarchs from William I to Richard III
- Religious life - including life in monasteries and convents and the Crusades
- Social life - village life, town life and medieval medicine.
Key features of our approach:
- A bold, meaty and authoritative narrative providing clear explanation of the content
- Carefully constructed tasks developing pupils understanding of the content and building their extended writing skills - particularly preparing them for the challenge of the Common Entrance essay
- Source Investigations on each of the current and planned nominated topics in the syllabus
- Advice on how to prepare for the Common Entrance examination.
Additional features:
- 'What?' and 'Who?' boxes throughout the text develop historical vocabulary and biographical knowledge.
- 'Did you know?' boxes focus on fascinating, amusing, or illuminating details of history - trivia with a purpose.