Monday, 08 January 2007

Dear students, parents, and other interested persons,

I hope that this section will prove valuable in that you will be able to better prepare for classes and that you will be less confused in preparing for exams and tests. The page numbers here come from your prescribed text, Walsh's seminal Modern World History (2nd Ed.). This page also contains some of my class explanations, additional materials, and past papers.

However, please remember that the material provided here is merely a plan and, while every effort is being made to adhere to it, it must necessarily be subject to change as we struggle our way through the educational gauntlet. So, the final authority on material required for the exams comes from the official school Exam Revision List.

Yours sincerely,

Robert Kerr

`Term I Topics`

(Topics covered &

text-book page numbers)

`Skills`

Balance of Power (4-7)

Anglo-German Rivalry (8-12)

Mood of the War (14-15)

Trench Warfare (20-23)

Chemical War (24)

Mechanical War (25, 44-45, 48-49)

Battles: Verdun & Somme (30); Gallipoli (38-40); Middle East (41)

Choosing a topic

Logical Organisation

Summary & paraphrase

Revision & Editing

Basic Referencing

Map work, cartoons, pictograms, tables, character analysis,

Famous faces

Analysing photos

Aerial photos, photos, cross-sections, diaries, Art & poetry

Photographs & diagrams

Maps & Battle Plans

`Term II Topics`

Tsarist Russia (99-101)

1905 Revolution (104)

Rasputin (107)

March 1917 (108-111)

Lenin & Trotsky (114-116)

Modernising Russia (128-129, 133)

Stalin & the Purges (134-135)

Treaty of Versailles (86-90)

Munich Putsch (149)

Depression Germany (152)

Hitler’s rise to Chancellor (156)

Reichstag Fire (158)

Night of the Long Knives (159)

1936 Olympics (165)

Hitler Youth (167-168)

Maps, films, tables

Petitions, Fine Art

Cartoons

Graphs

Character profiles, sound recordings (Lenin & Trotsky)

Graphs

Graphs, sound recording (Stalin)

Mapwork, DVD

Speeches

Photographs, cartoons, graphs

DVD, sound recording (Hitler)

Photographs, diaries

Photos, cartoons

Newspapers, timetables, cartoons

`Term III Topics`

Collapse of the LoN (254)

German Rearmament (258)

Saar & Rhineland (259-261)

Spanish Civil War (262)

Austrian Anschluss (263)

Appeasement & the

Sudetenland (264-269)

Nazi-Soviet Pact (271-271)

USA & Japan (275-278)

Battle of Britain (282-283)

Battle of Atlantic (284-285)

Russian Front (286-298)

Bombing campaign (290-291)

Cartoons, summaries

Graphs, photos

Cartoons, photos

Postcards

Cartoons

Debate, cartoons, summaries, photos, maps, newspapers, sound recording (Chamberlain)

Cartoons, DVD

Maps, film, Sound recording (FD Roosevelt)

Maps, Tables, DVD, sound recording (Churchill)

Maps, summaries

Maps, graphs, photos, DVDs

Maps, photos, newspapers, diaries, DVD

`Term IV Topics`

D-Day (292-294)

Atomic Bomb (296-297)

Effects on civilians (298-299, 301-307)

Genocide

Political Effects (300)

Maps, DVD, Sound recording (George VI)

Photographs, DVDs, debate

Photographs, posters, sound recording (Princess Elizabeth)

DVD

Summaries (Sound recordings (Mohandas Gandhi, Aga Khan III)

Research Project : Grade 10

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