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11–12Modern History 11–12 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Content

Year 12

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.

Historical concepts and skills

The following skills should be integrated with the content of the course. These skills provide opportunities to engage with the concepts of causation, continuity and change, perspectives, significance and contestability.

Time and chronology

  • Recognise the passage of time in daily life

  • Use the language of time

  • Recognise how time is measured

  • Compare chronological time to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives of time

  • Use the language of time in a range of contexts

  • Use chronology to order people, places, changes and events from the past

Analysis and use of sources

  • Access a variety of sources

  • Identify different types of sources

  • Indicate the origins of sources

  • Identify the main ideas of sources

  • Identify the purpose of sources

  • Locate, select and organise a range of sources that are records of own personal history

  • Identify relevant information from a range of sources

  • Organise information from sources

  • Use sources to identify perspectives of individuals or groups in the past

  • Recognise the usefulness of sources to understand the past

  • Make observations about the usefulness and reliability of sources

Historical interpretation

  • Recognise that the past is different to the present

  • Make connections between people, places and events from the past and their own life

  • Identify examples of continuity and change in own life and the past

  • Recognise the causes of events or developments in the past

  • Recognise the effects of events or developments in the past

  • Access historical ideas and representations

  • Compare different historical ideas and representations

  • Consider how different perspectives in history can shape understanding

  • Communicate about the significance of historical people, places or event(s)

  • Make observations about historical impacts and legacy

Historical investigation and research

  • Select historical areas of interest and curiosity

  • Make personal connections to historical people, places, artefacts and events of interest

  • Access a range of relevant sources to investigate information about the past

  • Pose question(s) about the past

  • Engage with relevant sources to investigate question(s) and organise information

  • Participate in the process of historical inquiry

Explanation and communication

  • Communicate personal connections to historical concepts

  • Use historical terms and concepts

  • Use language of chronology

  • Make comparisons between the past and the present

  • Communicate an understanding of the past

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