Year 11: coherent historical narratives
What does this mean?
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Contained and clear narratives.
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Reinforcing conceptual
understandings and knowledge
acquired.
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Developing a more critical
approach to sources and
narratives.
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Working with and using primary
sources to substantiate
generalisations.
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Casually ordered narratives –
enable students to distinguish
‘what was happening’ and ‘what
was going on.’ Can also reveal
change and continuity.
Current programme:
Race Relations
1.
Dealing with the ‘Other’: slavery and
Jim Crow in the USA, Terra Nullius
and Australian Aborigines, Chinese
New Zealanders.
2.
Righting the wrongs: South Africa’s
truth and reconciliation hearings,
Liberia and the US civil rights
movement, NZ’s Waitangi Tribunal and
Helen Clark’s apology to the Chinese.
Future ideas:
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India’s caste system.
South Africa and apartheid.
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
Eastern Europe
Ireland
Overarching assessment considerations
Level 6 Achievement Objectives:
Understand how the causes and
consequences of past events that are of
significance to NZrs shape the lives of
people and society.
Understand how people’s perspectives
on past events that are of significance to
New Zealanders differ,
Indicators:
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Identifies and describes the causes of
past events.
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Identifies and describes the
consequences of past events.
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Links the causes and consequences.
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Identifies and describes perspectives
on past events.
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Demonstrates understanding of
different perspectives on an event.
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Makes links or contrasts between the
experiences of people in the past and
their own experience.
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Compares their experiences with those
of people in the past.
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Achievement Standards:
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AS91001: Carry out and investigation of an
historical event or place, of significance to
NZrs.
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AS91002: Demonstrate understanding of an
historical event or place of significance to
NZrs.
AS91003 Interpret sources of an historical
event of significance to NZrs
AS91004: Demonstrate understanding of
different perspectives of people in an historical
event of significance to NZrs
AS91005: Describe the causes and
consequences of an historical event
As91006: Describe how a significant
historical event affected NZ society
JMC history. R Gardiner. 2013
Skills
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Comprehension
Close Reading
Extracting meaning
Describing sources
Annotating sources
Beginning of cross referencing
Describing usefulness
Identifying links in evidence
Evaluating sources
Evaluating a process thoroughly
Demonstrating understanding
Using evidence
Describing significance
Interpreting facts, ideas,
perspectives, reliability, bias
Describing causes and
consequences
Describing how an event affected
NZ society
Accounts for groups/individuals and
communities