Unit plan
Students will meet twice a week, for a 1 hour and 40 minute teaching block to reach a total of 20 hours (1200 minutes) teaching time over 6 weeks.
(Lesson)
Content
[teaching
minutes
cumulative]
Use
(1)
historical terms and concepts in
[100]
appropriate contexts
to demonstrate historical
knowledge and
understanding (ACHMH002)
Learning and assessment (differentiation)
Historical skills
Context building
Introduce the unit and assessment task to conceptualise to orient the students
towards their context of learning.
Analysing
Context Building
Students engage with videos and text as a whole class to conceptualise
communism and capitalism – Understanding the fundamentals of these theories
should allow the students to engage with their sources in a more neutral way.
Analyse and account for the
different perspectives of
Texts and videos to engage with:
individuals and groups in the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc&ab_channel=TheSchoolofLife –
past (ACHMH010)
Understanding Karl Marx and communism / socialism
Using secondary
sources to build
context, primary to
engage with
analysis and
interpretation.
Key Terms:
Communism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53vmQNVBm0w&ab_channel=LondonCityGirl Capitalism
- Understanding Capitalism, Socialism and Communism.
Analysis and Interpretation activities.
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ARTV09225
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ARTV09061
Students engage with two primary images. By completing this activity, students
engage with historical analysis and interpretation of sources.
This process should be modelled for students and directly links to what they will be
doing in their multimodal assignment.
(Differentiation/extension – students build upon the first class-wide brainstorm on
capitalism and communism based on extended personal research)
(2)
[200]
Analysing Australia’s mood towards communism and outside entities
Students return to analysing two sources from the Australian War Memorial:
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ARTV09225
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ARTV09061
Key Question: how does this shape the Australian Psyche post World War II, with
the new political idea of communism?
Analyse Australian perspectives on this issue using both primary and secondary
sources
(3)
[300]
(4)
[400]
(5)
[500]
(6)
[600]
(7)
[700]
(8)
[800]
Analysis
Interpretation
(9)
[900]
(10)
[1000]
(11)
[1100]
(12)
[1200]
References
Australian War Memorial. (n.d.) Ringed With Menace! (1942) Retrieved 6th Aug, 2022 from https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ARTV09061
NSW Education Standards Authority [NESA] (2017). Modern History – Stage 6 Syllabus. Retrieved 7th August, 2022 from chromeextension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://hsc.one/nesa/dd911de5-0d92-43c9-9447-40e97c934b41/modern-history-stage-6-syllabus2017.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=
The Communist Party Dissolution Act 1950. http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/cth/num_act/cpda195016o1950406/
The School of Life. (2014, December 19). Political Theory – Karl Marx [video file]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc&ab_channel=TheSchoolofLife
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