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7–10History 7–10 Syllabus

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Stage 5

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

The Holocaust (1933–1945)

Historical context: The Second World War played a pivotal role in shaping the modern world.

This focus area aligns with:

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Content in Working with historical concepts and skills outlines how historical concepts and skills are to be integrated with all other content in this focus area as part of the process of historical inquiry.

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Working with historical concepts and skills
  • Use relevant historical concepts and skills

  • Engage in the historical inquiry process

  • Communicate ideas about the Holocaust through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

Background, origins and connections to the Holocaust
  • How people behave responsibly in groups

  • Times when people have not been treated fairly

  • How to recognise when people are not treated fairly

  • Upstander behaviour when people are not treated fairly

  • Responses and strategies when personally not treated fairly

  • Survivor stories of people affected by the Holocaust

  • The geographical location of the Holocaust

Significant groups, individuals, ideas, beliefs, practices or events in the Holocaust
  • Aspects of the daily life and living conditions of Jewish people living in Nazi-occupied Europe

  • Significant places in the Holocaust, including ghettos and concentration camps in Germany and Poland

  • Jewish resistance during the Holocaust

  • The contributions of a significant individual or group

  • Key moment(s) or turning point(s) in the Holocaust

Impact and legacies of the Holocaust
  • Local or national activities or events that commemorate the Holocaust

  • Other groups affected by the Nazi persecution

  • An event related to the legacy of the Holocaust

  • The impact of the Holocaust on the Jewish people

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