skills booklet unit 1 as history
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Skills Required for AS History.
A booklet to enable you to understand and practice the skills needed when
studying Unit 1 AS History
ContentsExam board skills explained Pages 1-2
Assessment criteria for Unit 1 Page 3
Examinable skills Page 4-5
Understanding the level descriptors Page 6
How to structure an essay Page 7-8
Question targets Page 9
Planning a response to an examination question practice
Pages 10-20
Self assessment against exam board objectives Pages 21-22
Homework tasks Pages 23-24
What skills does the exam board require you to demonstrate?
To be able to explain and analyse key concepts;
Causation
Within an historical context
consequence
Continuity
Change
To be able to
Make judgements between key features and characteristics of periods.
What skills does the exam board require you to demonstrate?• Recall , select and deploy historical knowledge.
• This means / involves…
• Communicate knowledge and understanding of history in a clear and effective manner.
• This means / involves…
• Use explanation and analysis to demonstrate understanding and arrive at substantiated judgements.
• This means / involves…
Assessment Criteria For Unit 1Historical themes in breadth
UNIT 1: Duration: 1 hour 20 mins
Answer 2 questions from a choice of 4.One from each topic YOU have studied.
Question Marks Assessment focus
1 & 2 30 each
Total 60
The emphasis is on the ability to recall, select and deploy historical knowledge and understanding of history in a clear and effective manner. Also the ability to present historical explanations showing an understanding of history. You need to arrive at a substantiated conclusion.
The answer is required in essay format.
Examinable Skills
What skills do I need to demonstrate?
Focus
Choice
Analysis
Links
Applying the examinable skills to structuring an essay
Effective application – what I need to do…
Understanding the essay level descriptors
Level What knowledge and understanding you demonstrate.
What skills you are required to demonstrate.
Level 1
1-6 marks
Level 2
7-12 marks
Level 3
13-18 marks
Level 4
19-24
Level 5
25-30
Structuring the main part of an essay
What you are expected to do.
How you need to effectively do it.
Analyse
Back up argument
Reach judgments
Independent thought
Language skills
Intro and Conclusion
• INTRODUCTION• Outline your
argument.• Do you agree with the
judgement? Yes / No / Partly.
• Explain WHY this will for the basis of your argument.
• CONCLUSION• Reach a
substantiated judgement: Against the essay focus.
• SUPPORT• REFUTE• MODIFY • Back up with
evidence.
Question TargetsFocus on unit 1 is on developed analysis and the ability to make and support , a
reasoned historical judgement.
• Questions can be about;• Causation• Consequence• Analysis ,or judgment on
key features of a situation• Analysis of consequences
and effects.
• Question approaches;• How extensive analysis of key
features)• was opposition to… (target:
analysis of key features)• How far did…improve?
(Target :comparison ;analysis of change)
• How important was…in increasing opposition / support…? (target: analysis of causation)
• How important was….contribution to the development of…/the outcome of/the beginning of..? (Target: analysis of significance)
Details/ key points
Explanation Evidence Analysis – how stable was German society?
Economicconsiderations
Political considerations
Social considerations
What links can you make between the factors?
How far did things improve in Germany between 1924-29?
Planning a response
Focus on the introduction
How far did things improve in Germany between 1924-29?
Outline
Judgment
Reasoning
Focus on the conclusion
How far did things improve in Germany between 1924-29?
SUPPORT REFUTE MODIFY
Reasoning:
Peer / self assessment
Level Which level ARE YOU on – provide evidence to support your judgement
Level 1
1-6 marks
Level 2
7-12 marks
Level 3
13-18 marks
Level 4
19-24
Level 5
25-30
Details/ key points
Explanation Evidence Analysis –official persecution / popular feeling?
Official persecution
Popular feeling
What links can you make between the factors?
Anti - Semitism in Germany in the 1930s was more the result of official persecution than popular feeling?
Planning a response
Focus on the introductionAnti - Semitism in Germany in the 1930s was more the result of official persecution than popular feeling?
Outline
Judgment
Reasoning
Source of opposition
Details/ key points
Explanation Evidence Analysis – how was it limited / ineffective?
Individual protests
Organized opposition
The churches
Young people
What links can you make between the factors?
Popular opposition to the Nazi’s was limited 1933-45.
Planning a response
Focus on the introduction
Popular opposition to the Nazi’s was limited 1933-45.
Outline
Judgment
Reasoning
Focus on the conclusion
Popular opposition to the Nazi’s was limited 1933-45.
SUPPORT REFUTE MODIFY
Reasoning:
Peer / self assessment
Level Which level ARE YOU on – provide evidence to support your judgement
Level 1
1-6 marks
Level 2
7-12 marks
Level 3
13-18 marks
Level 4
19-24
Level 5
25-30
Focus on the conclusion
The Night of the Long Knives sealed the move towards a Nazi Dictatorship?
SUPPORT REFUTE MODIFY
Reasoning:
Self assessment against exam board assessment objectives.
Assessment objective aspect
Skills required My level of confidence
AO1 Recall, select and deploy knowledge.
AO1 Analysis and evaluate information
AO1 Communicate explanations and reach sustained conclusions.
Setting personal targetsAssessment objective
What I need to do to progress in this skill area
AO1
AO1
AO1
Foreign policy move
Details/ key points
Explanation Evidence Analysis – a great power due to Hitler ?
Treaty of Versailles
Weakening France
Diplomatic moves – Britain / Italy
What links can you make between the factors?
To what extent was Hitler able to re-establish Germany as a great power by 1936?
Homework Task Week 1
Homework Task Week 2
The Weimar Years 1924-29 deserve to be called the stable years.
SUPPORT REFUTE MODIFY
Reasoning:
Use this for the formative assessment next lesson.