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11–12Modern History 11–12 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Content

Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

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.

Investigating modern history – The nature of modern history

Students may investigate one or more of the following options, part of an option or elements of the content as appropriate. Content from the options can also be combined for an integrated study or combined with any of the case studies.

  • The investigation of historic sites and sources
  • The contestability of the past
  • The construction of modern histories
  • The representation and commemoration of the past
The representation and commemoration of the past
Sources and the past
  • Items of importance to personal or community history

  • Different types of sources

  • Places historians can find sources to investigate the past

  • How sources are used to understand people, places and events from the past

  • Sources can be used to ask and answer questions about the past

  • Sources which demonstrate how a person, site, society or event has been represented over time

  • Different representations of the past

  • Compare differing interpretations and representations of the past

  • Reasons a person, site or event might be represented differently

Commemoration
  • Ways people remember or celebrate a significant person

  • Symbols or objects that are commonly used to remember or celebrate a significant person

  • Reasons for commemorating people or events in history

  • Commemorations of significant people or events in history

  • Symbols or objects used in a commemoration of a significant person or event in history

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