Building Learning Power: THE HISTORY STRATEGY

YOUR GOAL IS: INTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND HIGH EXPECTATIONS

YOUR MANTRA IS: ‘MY DRIVE IS FEAR OF BEING MEDIOCRE’

SUCCESS CRITERIA: TO BE ABLE TO DEBATE AND WRITE DISCURSIVE HISTORY

Written by: Dean Harris

WORK HARDBE NICEREAD OFTENNO EXCUSES

WHAT IS HISTORY?‘Believe nothing that you read and only half of what you see’

Acronym: REFCCD

RecordedEvents and peopleFact and fictionChronologyCause and effectDebate

Each lesson you should be able to include at least one of these concepts into your writing: all of these should have been used by the end of the academic year.

HISTORICAL DISCIPLINARY

CONCEPTS CONTEXT (HISTORICAL)CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCECONTINUITY AND CHANGESIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCESHORT – AND LONG –TERM TIMESCALESSIGNIFICANCELINKS BETWEEN LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL HISTORYImpactCounter-ArgumentTurning - pointAcronym: CCCSSSL ICT

‘there are two types of history, the one that is being written about and the one it is written in’

THIS ACRONYM WILL LINK ALL HISTORICAL PERIODS YOU STUDY

HISTORICAL SUBSTANTIVE LINKS Acronym: GPS CREM

GEOGRAPHICALPOLITICALSOCIALCULTURALRELIGIONECONOMICALMILITARTY

THEMATICS WHEN ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT AND ORIGINS OF WARFAREAcronym: SOAP

SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE BALANCE OF POWERS

OPOSING INTERESTS

A WILL-TO-CONFLICT

PERCEPTION OF OPPORTUNITY/THREAT/INJUSTICE MilitarismAlliancesImperialismNationalismEmpireAcronym: MAINE

THEMATICS WHEN STUDYING WARFARE

BATTLEFIELDARMIESWEAPONSLEADERSHIPAcronym: BAWL

NOT EVERYTHING IS HISTORY!!!

IT MUST BE INTERESTING AND EXCITING BUT MOST OF ALL IT MUST INCLUDE ARGUMENTS AND COUNTER

ARGUMENTS.

PROGRESS: TO BE ABLE TO DECONSTRUCT YOUR ARGUMENTS

HISTORY IS NOT JUST THE GATHERING OF INFORMATION IT IS A

DEBATE!!!

THIS STRATEGY WILL MAKE SURE YOUR WRITING READS AS A DEBATE According However

ARGUE

MAINTAIN

Suggest

Contend

ACCORDING

BECAUSE

Acronym: A HAM SCAB

EACH WORD SHOULD BE USED AT LEAST ONCE EACH BEFORE BEING USED AGAIN

LINKS THAT SHOULD BE USED

IT IS SUGGESTED BY HISTORIANS THAT…HISTORIANS CONTEND THAT…IT IS ARGUED BY HISTORAINS THAT...ACCORDING TO HISTORIANS…HISTORIANS MAINTAIN THAT...THIS IS PUT FORWARD BY HISTORIANS BECAUSE

OTHER DISCURSIVE OR CONJUNCTIVE LINKS TO BE USED:

IT IS PUT FORWARD BY HISTORIANS THAT...

SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE THAT...

ON THE ONE HAND IT IS ARGUED THAT…, ON THE OTHER.....

FURTERMORE IT COULD ALSO BE ARGUED THAT..

VIEWED IN THIS LIGHT IT WOULD APPEAR THAT....

FROM THIS IT COULD BE CONTENDED THAT...

IN CONTRAST TO THE ABOVE IT WOULD SEEM THAT...

HOWEVER…..

MOREOVER..

.

.ALL ACADEMIC HISTORY WRITING MUST ENCOMPASS THE FOLLOWING:

INTRODUCTION (USING THE WORDING OF THE QUESTION AND JUDGEMENT)

G/T: CONTEXT (PLACE THE QUESTION IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT)

DEBATE ( (WITH COUNTER ARGUMENTS) (DECONSTRUCTION G/T)

G/T CONTROVERSAY (EXPLAIN THE CONTROVERSIES SURROUNDING THE DEBATE)

G/T: HISTORIOGRAPHY

CONCLUSION (JUDGMENT THAT EMBRACES ALL THEMES ANALYSED)

NB. The main development of your work should include hedge writing. This means it should read, ‘confidently uncertain UNTIL you get to the conclusion and produce a final judgement.

THEMATICS

Summary of concepts

What is history? : REFCCD

Disciplinary concepts: CCCSSSL ICT

Substantive concepts: GPS CREM

Conflict: MAINE SOAP

Warfare: BAWL

Hedge writing: A HAM SCAB