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History

Year 7 History Course Overview Semester One 2022

Topic Areas

INVESTIGATING THE ANCIENT PAST

  • Ancient Egypt

THE ASIAN WORLD

  • Ancient China     

Assessment Criteria

Your progress in this course will be determined by demonstrated abilities in the following assessments:

Tollund Man  – Persuasive Task

Week 7 Term 3

 

35%

Mid-Semester Source Test

Week 4 Term 4

 

35%

Literacy

Ongoing assessment

 

30%

 

 

Year 8 History Course Overview Semester One 2022

Topic Areas

THE ANCIENT TO THE MODERN WORLD

  • Medieval Europe

EXPANDING CONTACTS

  • Aboriginal & Indigenous Peoples, Colonisation and Contact History

THE ASIA-PACIFIC WORLD

  • The Polynesian Expansion across the Pacific or Angkor/Khmer Empire  

Assessment Criteria

Your progress in this course will be determined by demonstrated abilities in the following assessments:

Medieval Europe  – Research Project

Week 7 Term 3

 

35%

Mid-Semester Source Test 

Week 4 Term 4

 

35%

Literacy

Ongoing assessment

 

30%

 

 

Year 9 History Course Overview Semester One 2022

Topic Areas

  • Industrial Revolution

AUSTRALIA AND ASIA

  • Making a Nation

AUSTRALIANS AT WAR

  • World War One and World War Two     

Assessment Criteria

Your progress in this course will be determined by demonstrated abilities in the following assessments:

Research Task  – The Industrial Revolution Invention Task

Week 6 Term 1

 

35%

Mid-Semester Source Analysis Test

Week 4 Term 2

 

35%

Literacy

Ongoing assessment

 

30%

 

Year 10 History Course Overview Semester One 2022

Topic Areas

THE GLOBALISING WORLD

  • Pop Culture

RIGHTS & FREEDOMS (1945 – present)

  • Indigenous Australians

AUSTRALIA IN THE VIETNAM WAR ERA    

Assessment Criteria

Your progress in this course will be determined by demonstrated abilities in the following assessments:

Research Task  – Popular Culture

Week 7 Term 1

 

35%

Mid-Semester Source Analysis Test

Week 4 Term 2

 

35%

Literacy

Ongoing assessment

30%

 

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