Teaching History: Research Essay
Assessment criteria:
- Extent & quality of research and depth of critical understanding about the discipline of History
- Effective use of evidence in the argument
- Critical use of sources including state-based curricula, academic journals and texts
- Organization & structure including introduction & conclusion
- Clarity of written expression and coherence of the ideas presented
- Grammar, punctuation, spelling, proof-reading.
- Referencing to APA 7th Edition standards and style.
Task Details:
Create a written 2500-word (excluding reference list) essay in response to the following question:
‘The formation of critical, active and informed, global citizenship underlines the rationale of the NSW History syllabus. A precondition for the development of such citizenship through the study of History is the development of historical and moral consciousness.’ Phillipa Parsons, ‘Fostering Historical Consciousness,’ Teaching History.
Question:
- How can the teaching of a Year 12 topic foster historical consciousness and active citizenship?
Your chosen Year 12 topic must come from the following list of content areas:
Ancient History
Personalities
- Hatshepsut
- Akhenaten
- Sennacherib
- Xerxes
- Qin Shihuangdi
- Pericles
- Alexander the Great
- Tiberius Gracchus
- Julius Caesar
- Agrippina the Younger
Historical Periods
- NKE – to the Death of Thutmose IV
- NKE – Amenhotep III to the Death of Ramesses II
- Ancient Levant – First Temple Period c.970-586BC
- Persia – Cyrus II to the Death of Darius III
- Imperial China – The Qin and Han 247-87 BC
- The Greek World – 500-440 BC
- 4th Century Greece to the Death of Phillip II
- The Fall of the Roman Republic 78-31 BC
- The Augustan Age 44BC – AD14
- The Julio-Claudians AD14 – 69
Modern History
Peace and Conflict
- Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979
- Conflict in the Pacific 1937-1951
- Conflict in Europe 1935-1945
- The Cold War 1945-1991
- Conflict in the Gulf 1980-2011
- Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948-1996
Change in the Modern World
- Pro-democracy Movement in Burma 1945-2010
- The Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square
- 1966-1989
- Civil Rights in the USA 1945-1968
- Changing World Order 1945-2011
- The Nuclear Age 1945-2011
- Apartheid in South Africa 1960-1994