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Exploring significance

Exploring significance. Significant events. You will be given a significant event and you will need to explore it from a historical significance standpoint. There will 4 tasks: A mini-inquiry into your significant event. A brief account in your own words of your event.

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Exploring significance

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  1. Exploring significance

  2. Significant events • You will be given a significant event and you will need to explore it from a historical significance standpoint. • There will 4 tasks: • A mini-inquiry into your significant event. • A brief account in your own words of your event. • An explanation of why it is significant • A suggestion of possible sources you might want to find if you were to continue the research.

  3. Set up a google doc and share me into it with editing rights. rachaelg@mcglashan.school.nz

  4. Task one – a mini inquiry • Use the following sites for information (not just one) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ • http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/ • http://www.besthistorysites.net/

  5. Reading for purpose Make headings that are appropriate to your event • The event itself (what happened) • Causes • Consequences • Effects on people • Impact (short and long term) • Opinions (perspectives) on it And as you read jot down key points under those headings (copy and pasters will be executed at high noon)

  6. Task 2 – brief overview • Use your notes to write an account of what happened during the event in your own words. • Think about the fact you are now a senior student: try your best to use sophisticated and formal language.

  7. Task 3 Analysis of significance When you are trying to explain why your event is significant, remember the 5 Rs • REMARKABLE: people were interested in the time, and remain interested in it. • REMEMBERED: by a group/s of people • RESULTED IN CHANGE: it has consequences, impact, affected people. • RESONANT: people like to make analogies with it; it is possible to connect with experiences, beliefs or situations across time and space. • REVEALING: of some other aspect of the past. Use the 5 Rs as subheadings in your analysis.

  8. TASK 4 - sources Draw up a table and suggest 5 primary and 5 secondary sources you could find to help you find more information. In what way might they be useful? For example: Event: The German invasion of the Soviet Union (1941) Primary source: photographs (could show conditions in Russia that soldiers were dealing with) Secondary source: history book (could explain reasons why the invasion was unsuccessful).

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