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11–12Modern History 11–12 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Year 11

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.

Change in the modern world

The following options are suggestions only. Teachers may develop their own options to support student interests and abilities. Students may explore one option, part of an option or elements of the content as appropriate.

  • The nuclear age 1945–2021
  • Civil rights in the United States 1945–1972
  • The Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa 1948–1994
  • The struggle for democracy in Burma 1948–2021
  • From the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square 1966–1989
  • The changing world order 1989–2016
Connections and context

  • Respond to relevant questions about the past

  • Describe a significant event from their own past

  • Communicate an awareness of continuity in their own life or community

  • Communicate an awareness of change in their own life or community

  • The difference between imposed and self-managed change in their own life

  • Causes of a recent change in their own life

  • Impacts of a recent personal change

  • Reactions to change

  • A recent social, economic or political change

Key features

  • The geographical region where the change took place

  • Factors that led to the change

  • Countries involved in the change 

  • A key personality involved in the change

  • Significant groups associated with the change

Events and developments

  • Significant movements associated with the change

  • Issues involved in the change

  • Resistance from an individual

  • Resistance from a group

  • Aspects of government responses

  • Aspects of government involvement

  • Military responses

  • Consequences and impacts of the change

  • Contributions of the change to the world today

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