HISTORY - Syllabus - 2012

Teacher: Chris Toti / Year: 2nd Year

General Aims:

·  To encourage students to view the study of history as a series of questions to be explored and analysed

·  To recycle contents from the previous years

·  To continue with the habit of reading, predicting, inferring from context and sources

·  To relate, compare and contrast past events forming hypotheses

·  To draw conclusions based on solid evidence as arguments

·  To discuss and share opinions respecting turn taking

·  To make students develop a critical thinking criteria about facts

·  To demonstrate an understanding of change and continuity, cause and consequence, similarity and difference

Unit 1

  • USA

Ø  America in the 1920s: the “Boom”

v  Industrial strength: New industries, new methods

v  Republican Policies

v  How did WWI help?

Ø  Farming: how different was the economic situation in this area? / Not all the Americans benefited from the Boom

v  Chicago in the 20s

Ø  The Roaring Twenties: means of transport, cities, entertainment and morals

v  Prohibitions during the 20s

Unit 2

  • USA

Ø  The Wall Street Crash

v  Causes for the Crash

v  Speculation

v  Weaknesses in the US Economy

v  Consequences in the World and in the US

v  The Depression: Chaos in the Economy

Unit 3

  • USA

Ø  1932-1941

v  Presidential Elections: The campaign

v  Franklin D. Roosevelt: His New Deal: the Hundred Days

v  The Second New Deal: 1936: opposition to the New Deal

v  Success or Failure?

Unit 4

  • Russia

Ø  Nicholas II: the new Tsar

v  His personal life, family, etc.

v  The Tsarist System of Government

Ø  The Russian Empire

v  Opposition to the Tsar

v  Political Parties

Ø  1905-1914

v  War against Japan

v  Bloody Sunday

v  October Manifesto

v  The Soviets

v  The Dumas

v  The Fundamental Laws

Ø  Peter Stolypin

Ø  Rasputin

Ø  The First World War: Russian Defeats

Unit 5

  • Russia

Ø  The First World War: Russian Defeats

Ø  1917

v  Chaos on the home front

v  The March Revolution

v  The Provisional Government and the Soviets

v  Kerensky / General Kornilov

Ø  The Bolsheviks and the Red Army

Ø  The 1917 Revolution: differences and similarities between both revolutions

Unit 6

  • Russia

Ø  Lenin in Power

v  The Bolshevik Dictatorship

v  WWI: making peace

v  Opposition and the Civil War: Whites against Red

v  Why did the Bolsheviks win?

v  Economic Policies: War Communism/NEP

v  The death of Lenin and the creation of the USSR

Unit 7

  • Russia

Ø  Stalin

v  Stalin and Trotsky: characteristics, differences

v  How did Stalin win?

v  Modernising the USSR: The Five- Year Plan

v  Collectivisation

v  Political Changes

v  The Cult of Stalin

Assessment Criteria:

In order to get a pass, students must comply with the following:

·  Attendance: 80%

·  Assignments: 100%

  • Students must bring material every class, comply with everything asked in class and have a complete notebook with photocopies stuck in it.

·  Participation: 80%

  • Students must pay attention and behave properly in class. They should have a good use of oral and written language.

·  Formal tests (mini tests, quarterlies, etc.): above 7 in all the tests

Compulsory bibliography:

·  GCSE Modern World History – Ben Walsh

Suggested bibliography:

·  GCSE Modern World History – Ben Walsh - Teacher’s resource book

·  Think through History – Modern Minds – The Twentieth Century World – Jamie Byrom, Christine Cousell, Michael Gorman, Derek Peaple, and Michael Riley.

·  GCSE History – The Modern World - Tony Lancaster & Derek Peaple.

·  The Twentieth Century World – Josh Brooman – Longman

·  What is evidence? – Chris Hinton

·  Longman 20th Century History Series – A New Deal – America 1932 – 1945 – Josh Brooman

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