St. Mary's Canossian College
Teaching Plan 2015-16
Subject: History
Form: Three
Date: 10th September 2015
Subject Teachers: Miss Maggie Chan (3A & 3B); Ms J. Tsui (3C-3F)
Form Coordinator: Ms J. Tsui
Panel Chair: Ms. Maggie Chan
Week
Content
Areas
Values & attitudes
Teaching Strategies
1
Introduction What is
History?
Empathy
Independence
Appreciation
2-3
Japanese
Occupation Life under
Japanese
Occupation
Empathy
Racial equality
Mutual respect
Cooperation
Harmony
Active Learning Strategy:
Q & A:
 What have students
learnt in junior form IH
lessons?
 What is History?
 Why do we need to
learn History?
 What to learn in
History?
 How to learn History?
Documentary movie – “3
years and 8 months”
4-6
Japanese
Occupation Life under
Japanese
Occupation
Social
developments
after 1945 –
Housing
Worksheet
Active Learning
Activities:
Mind-mapping & video
appreciation
Active Learning Strategy:
DI Task – news report, war
plans and poster
On-line Research – search
for relevant information for
DI presentation in MMLC
7-8
Learning Tasks /
response to school
themes
Active Learning –
problem based learning
(how to find out the
true stories in the past?)
Students’ presentation –
students present their work
during class time
Active learning strategy:
jigsaw learning (students
studying information on
different type of houses and
presentation)
Care for our society
Mutual support
Helping the poor
Harmony
Study skills:
How to tackle DBQ
1
Active learning
Activities:
DI Group discussion
and presentation
(learning history via
different sorts of
information e.g.
written, visual, audiovisual, etc. )
DBQ Exercise (1)
Presentation
Worksheet
8-9
Social
developments
after 1945 Education
Care for our society
Participation
Equality
Active learning strategy:
Group Discussion – changes
in Housing and education of
Hong Kong
Worksheet
Self-learning tasks
Study skills: How to
identify features
10
11
12-13
Social
developments
after 1945Pastime leisure
Social
developments
after 1945 –
popular culture
First Organized Test & Corrections
Treasure
Active learning strategy:
Appreciation
Jigsaw activity – students
Sharing
will break into groups and
play different kinds of old
toys. They need to spot out
the common features of
these toys & compare their
pastime leisure with those of
the 60s & 70s
Study Skills:
Identify features and
differences
Active learning strategy:
Song & Movie appreciation
(group work) – students will
listen to / watch old songs
and old movies culture in
HK + share their favourite
pop songs and analyze the
changes of popular culture
Care for our society
Appreciation of
others
Sharing
Worksheet
Active Learning task:
Discussion and
presentation
Active Learning task:
discovery learning
(research on popular
cultures of different
periods)
Study Skills: trace
developments
14-16
17-18
19-21
21-22
Social
developments
after 1945 –
Hong Kong’
relation with
China
The First
World War –
trend warfare
Care for our nation
Empathy
Active learning strategy:
Role Play – each group of
student will do a role play
on an episode.
Study Skills:
Identify changes
Christmas Holidays
Mid-Year Examination & Corrections
Empathy
Active learning strategy:
Peace & harmony
Experiencing World War –
Responsibility
Film appreciation on
Patriotism
“Merry Christmas” &
discuss the characteristics
of trench warfare
2
Active Learning task:
Discussion and
presentation
23
The First
World War –
war
propaganda
Study Skills:
Analyze characteristics
Active learning strategy:
Poster Design (group
work) – select a WWI
participating country and
help it create a poster.
Students need to present
their ideas in class
Empathy
Patriotism
Peace and harmony
Solidarity & unity
Poster Analysis
Study Skill: how to
analyze visual images in
DBQ (poster)
24-25
26-27
The First
World War –
Paris Peace
Conference
Cooperation
Respect
Fairness
Patriotism
Empathy
Value of life
Lunar New Year Holidays
Active learning strategy:
Mock Paris Peace
Conference – different
groups of students will
represent different
countries who took part in
the conference &
Presentation of their
stances and opinions
DBQ Exercise (2)
Study skills:
How to write arguments
for and against a view
28-29
30
30-31
32-33
The First
World War –
Consequences
Humanitarianism
Women’s rights
Patriotism
Citizens’ rights &
responsibility
Respect for life
Peace
Cooperation
Active learning strategy:
Discussion (pair work) –
positive and negative
impacts brought by WWI
Revision Exercise
Active self-learning
task: how to avoid a
world war?
Study skills:
cartoon interpretation
Second Organized Test
Easter Holiday
Totalitarianism Human rights
Active learning strategy:
– rise of Hitler Freedom
Mock election (group
Rule of law
work) – student are given
Right &
information about Postresponsibilities of
war Germany and the
citizens
possible candidate of
Democracy
German leaders. They
Governance
need to elect the leader
whom they think is best
for Post-war Germany.
3
Group discussion and
presentation
34-35
Totalitarianism Human rights
– Features of
Freedom
Nazism
Respect for life
Rule of law
Racial equality
35-36
Second World
War – war
fronts
Cooperation
Mutual respect
Acceptance of
diversities
Humanitarianism
Peace
37-38
Second World
War –
consequences
Cooperation
Mutual respect
Acceptance of
diversities
Humanitarianism
Peace
39
Cold War
Active learning strategy:
Writing letter to Hitler –
students should think
about what Germany
needed the most and
suggest policies to
improve Germany’s
conditions.
Study Skills:
Identify features
Active learning strategy:
Film appreciation &
reflection:
1. “Saving Private Ryan”
(movie) – D Day
2. “Hiroshima”
(documentary) –
atomic bombardment
3. “Life is beautiful”
(Movie) –
concentration camp
Writing letters to Hitler
Self-learning tasks –
research on other
totalitarian rulers
Worksheet
Active learning strategy: Group discussion and
Group discussion – lessons presentation
learnt from World War
Two
Study Skills:
Comparison (WWI &
WWII)
Active learning strategy:
Mind-mapping – How did
WWII lead to Cold War
Cooperation
Mutual respect
Acceptance of
diversities
Openness
Worksheet
Case study: North Korea
Study skills: cause-andeffect relationship
40
41-43
Revision
Revision of study skills
Final Examination & Corrections
4
Revision Exercises