Teaching Years 8 and 9 to write analytically about similarity and difference.

The article discusses the challenges faced by history teachers in teaching students in Years 8 and 9 to write analytically about similarity and difference. The author emphasizes the importance of developing students' knowledge, argumentation skills, and conceptual vocabulary to effectively shape arguments about similarity and difference. The text describes a Year 8 and Year 9 history lesson sequence that focuses on the experiences of women, men, and children on the home front during World War I and post-war campaigns for social equality in Britain. The given text describes a scheme of work for a Year 9 post-war Britain history class that aims to explore the similarities and differences between various groups and movements. The scheme emphasizes the development of substantive knowledge, vocabulary, and the ability to analyze and reflect on the nature and degree of similarity and difference. [Extracted from the article]