"Living Through History" is a complete Key Stage 3 course which brings out the exciting events in history. The course is available in two different editions, Core and Foundation. Every core title in the series has a parallel Foundation edition. Each Evaluation Pack includes the Assessment and Resource Pack and a free compendium volume student book. The resource packs include a variety of tasks which students should find interesting and enjoyable. They also include differentiated exercises to provide support for less able students and challenging work for more able students. Assessment exercises for the compulsory study units aim to help teachers monitor progress through NC levels.

 

This book is part of a book series called Living Through History .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Pearson Education Limited .

Jane Shuter was a primary school teacher for many years before becoming a full-time writer of children's non fiction. Her fascination with ancient Egypt began at the age of eight, when she saw her first mummy. She has written many books on the subject. Colin Shephard and Rosemary Rees are experienced examiners and accomplished textbook authors.

This book has the following chapters: Chapter 1
1. 1 What is Freedom?
1. 2 Invisible people
Chapter 2
2. 1 Africa
2. 2 First Contacts
2. 3 Olaudah Equiano
2. 4 What happened on arrival?
Chapter 3
3. 1 The War of Independence
3. 2 Slave or free?
3. 3 Should slavery be abolished?
3. 4 Resistance
3. 5 Escape!
3. 6 What was it like to be a slave?
Chapter 4
4. 1 The Civil War
4. 2 Living through the Civil War
4. 3 Steps forward and steps back
4. 4 A better life?
Chapter 5
5. 1 Missed chances
5. 2 A time of progress
5. 3 Bad times: the Depression
5. 4 Separation: the only way to go?
5. 5 From Clarkside to Chicago
5. 6 Protest
5. 7 Children under fire
5. 8 Making a difference
Chapter 6
6. 1 They are not your friends
6. 2 Burn, Baby, Burn
6. 3 What now?