1. © HarperCollins Publishers 2010 Significance What events are significant in your life?

2. © HarperCollins Publishers 2010 Significance Objectives In this activity you will: Decide what events are significant to you. Explain why some events are more significant than others. Analyse what makes historical events or people significant.

3. © HarperCollins Publishers 2010 Significance As historians, we make judgements about the people, places and events that are historically significant. Just by selecting what to study, we are considering which events are significant. This activity introduces you to this idea by looking at your life and the events that are significant to you.

4. © HarperCollins Publishers 2010 Significance Look at the graph on the next screen. Draw a cross on the graph for each event, rating how significant you think it has been to your life.

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6. © HarperCollins Publishers 2010 Significance What helped you decide what events were significant in your life? Were different events more or less significant for other people? Could we think about historical significance in a similar way?

7. © HarperCollins Publishers 2010 Significance Historians have lots of ways of thinking about significance. What do you think makes an event or person historically significant?

8. © HarperCollins Publishers 2010 Significance The people living at the time thought it was very important. It changed things very much for people living at the time and made their lives different. It affected a lot of people’s lives. It affected people’s lives for a long time. It affects our lives today. It is a good idea to think about these things when studying any historical event, especially when thinking about significance.