Coursework Assignment 2:
Assessment objectives 2&3
•What is the coursework?
•How will it be completed?
Created by Mr. C Wright,
Dulwich College Shanghai
Coursework assignment ‘2’
• Is worth 12.5% of your final IGCSE
grade
• Is made up of 4 questions of 3,6,9 & 12
marks.
• Is focused upon the use of sources
• We will do questions 1-3 initially:
question 4 will be done at a later date
as it requires you to understand more
about what happens in the years after
the Palestinian ‘exodus’.
Important things to remember
• When your coursework is complete you
will be asked to sign a declaration that
all the work is your own
• You should use font Arial, size 12
throughout your work.
• You should aim high: it is perfectly
possible for most candidates to get A/A*
in their coursework with the right
amount of hard work.
What your teacher can and
can’t do to help you…
Can:
• Provide guidance and
activities in class to help
you understand the
requirements of the
questions
•Give general verbal
comments on your work
so that you can re-draft
•Tell you the mark that
your work receives
(subject to moderation).
Cannot:
•Tell you exactly what to
write
•Give you detailed written
feedback and suggestions
•Tell you for 100% certain
what your mark is yet: the
coursework has to be
moderated closer to the
IGCSE exam time.
Inference..
"Jessie and Freddie put on
their snow suits. They got
their hats, boots, and
scarves. They went
outside and began to roll
the snow in three large
balls. They put the largest
ball on the bottom and
stacked the snow balls on
top of each other. They
went to look for two
sticks."
• What can you learn
from the story on the
left?
• What would be an
example of inference
from the story?
The story so far..
• In 1947 the UN decided to
divide up ‘Palestine’ into
two states: Palestine &
Israel
• A war resulted which the
Jews won, creating ‘Israel
• As a result 700,000+ Arab
Palestinians left the land
and became refugees in
the neighbouring countries
• The coursework is about
why this happened and the
impact of the refugees
Q1: What can you learn from Source A about
conditions within the refugee camps? (100-200
words approx)
• Key is to use ‘inference’
• Don’t just describe what
you can see: go further what can you ‘infer’ about
conditions in the refugee
camps?
• For this answer you are
aiming for 100-200 words
approx.
• Homework: draft your
answer to the question:
make sure that you use the
correct font and put the full
question as the title
Q2. Use Source C and your own knowledge to help describe the
problems facing the neighbouring countries to which the refugees
fled in 1948. (300-500 words, so will need some planning on structure)
• What does the source explicitly tell us?
• What does the source suggest? What
can we infer from the source?
• What background knowledge can we
use here to support and enhance our
answer?
• What is likely to be the impact on the
economy? Society? Foreign relations?
• Can the refugees go back?
Q3. Use Sources B & D and your own knowledge to explain why
Palestinian refugees fled from their homeland in 1948. (500-600 words
approx, this is an essay length and your planning needs to be detailed.)
• What do the sources explicitly tell us?
• What do the sources suggest? What
can we infer from the sources?
• What background knowledge can we
use here to support and enhance our
answer?
• What reasons do we know about that
are/aren’t mentioned in the sources?
Planning your answers to Q2
& 3.
• Go through the prompt questions and
make notes.
• Then plan your ‘mini essay’ using the
format:
– Introduction - set out your understanding of the
question and how you will answer it
– Main Body - may be divided into several clearly
defined sections. Remember to explicitly ‘use’ the
sources.
– Conclusion - draw your points together and answer
the main thrust of the question - make sure your final
sentence is a ‘winner’ - this lingers in the mind of the
marker!
Next week: The Suez crisis (also known as
the ‘Sinai campaign)
• 1956
• Involves Egypt, Israel, France, Britain
and the two new ‘SuperPowers’ the
USSR and the USA.
• The USSR and the USA were to go on
and play a huge role in shaping the
region over the next 31 years (and of
course in the case of the USA well
beyond this.)