1. NCEA LEVEL 1 HISTORY SOME ADVICE By John Pipe

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3. AS 1.3 Interpret historical sources This achievement standard involves interpreting sources of an historical event of significance to New Zealanders. Achievement with Excellence Comprehensively interpret sources of an historical event of significance to New Zealanders.

4. EXPLANATORY NOTES Sources refers to: documents, pictures, graphs, maps, articles, speeches, cartoons, text books, etc. Interpret means to show understanding of the sources, using one or more historical skills.

5. Interpret in depth means to show thorough understanding of the sources, using one or more historical skills. Comprehensively interpret means to show perceptive understanding of the sources, using one or more of the historical skills.

6. Historical skills refer to interpreting: an idea or ideas facts perspectives reliability bias limitations of evidence and the need for additional information Assessment tasks will be based on historical sources that are related to a New Zealand event We might have studied the event if we are lucky!

7. An historical event is understood to be one of the following: a specific historical event in time, e.g. Passchendaele, Land March, Waterfront Strike, Influenza Epidemic, Polio Epidemic, End of Six O’Clock Closing an historical development or movement, e.g. Ratana movement, introduction of the contraceptive pill, Tino Rangatiratanga a person’s role in and contribution to a significant historical event or movement, e.g. Ettie Rout and health

8. Formative activities in mixed team’s of 4 1.You have two A3 retrieval sheets per group to record your team’s answers. I am looking to see co-operation in the way that you complete these tasks 2.There are 12 stations each with copies of an aspects of WWII that relates to New Zealand. 3.Every group will move around the stations and spend 10 minutes at each station. 4.Answer the questions on the next page for each :

9. 1. Identify the resource eg Letters home. 2. Scan the document quickly. 3. Identify a PRIMARY source in the document 4. Identify a SECONDARY source 5. What are two facts from your resource? 6. Identify a person and their point of view 7. What other evidence what make the resource more reliable or useful? 8. Identify any bias shown in the resource? Write your responses on to your two A3 sheets in one of the boxes provided

10. Look at Sources A and B very carefully. Source A This is a photograph taken in 1938. It shows Joseph Stalin standing by the Moscow-Volga Canal. On the left is Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Prime Minister. On the right is Yezhov the head of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police.

11. Source B This is a photograph published in 1939. In what ways do the sources differ?