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WORKING WITH SOURCES

This resource focuses on gathering and working with sources to answer history-based questions. It teaches how to extract evidence, analyze sources, interpret information, organize evidence, and synthesize findings. The goal is to develop critical thinking skills and construct a well-written piece of history.

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WORKING WITH SOURCES

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  1. WORKING WITH SOURCES

  2. KEY QUESTION • Extract evidence • Analyse sources & evidence • Interpretation • Organise evidence • Synthesise • Inculcate critical thinking GATHER SOURCES TO ANSWER WORK WITH SOURCES TO ANSWER • Write a piece of • History including • essays COMMUNICATE ANSWER

  3. HISTORYSource Based Questions

  4. Key Questions • Linked to content • Give direction to candidates • Focus on a particular theme • Develop the enquiry mode • Stimulate critical thinking • Use the sources to construct your own piece of history • Guides the candidate in the construction of the paragraph question and in the summing-up (tying-up) of the theme

  5. Levels of Source based Questions LEVEL 1 (L 1) • Extract evidence from sources LEVEL 2 (L 2) • Straightforward interpretations by using evidence from one source and broader knowledge to show an understanding of the period/ event/ issue. LEVEL 3 (L 3) • Complex interpretations by using evidence from more than one source • Involves more than one source and broader knowledge to show an understanding of the period/ event/ issue. Look at aspects such as bias, reliability, usefulness, the use of organising concepts (similarity and difference; cause and consequence; chronology; change and continuity) to explain contrasts, comparisons, differing points of view and as a last step using these insights to write a paragraph or in other words, to write a piece of history based on the evidence in the sources.

  6. MARKING SOURCE-BASED QUESTIONS

  7. Why Levels Marking? • Help to assess a paragraph in a holistic manner • Move away from focussing on content only • Advantages learners because it focuses on the process of enquiry skills • Assess learners ability to construct their own knowledge • It provides learners the opportunity of demonstrating their own knowledge • It is criterion referenced leading to the NCS approach • It indicates the development of skills

  8. Levels marking rubric LEVEL 1 • Cannot extract evidence or extract evidence from sources in a very elementary manner. • Use evidence partially to report on topic or cannot report on topic. Marks: 0 – 2 LEVEL 2 • Extract evidence from sources that is mostly relevant and relates to a great extent to the topic. • Use evidence from sources in a very basic manner. Marks: 3 – 4 LEVEL 3 • Extract relevant evidence from sources Extracted evidence - relates very well to the topic. • Use evidence from sources very effectively in an organised paragraph that shows an understanding of the topic. Marks: 5 – 6

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