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Hello Grade 8,

Mrs. Duarte, and I are e-mailing you to let you know the topics that will be included on your Grade 8 Humanities examination after the Easter holidays. You will do one examination for HUMANITIES. Half of the examination will be testing you on your Geography knowledge, and half will be testing you on your History knowledge.

FOR HISTORY THE TOPICS THAT WILL BE ON THE EXAMINATION ARE:

THE FIRST WORLD WAR - using information on the people, places, and events we studied earlier in the year.

THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES - using information on the people involved and decisions made by the peacemakers in Paris in 1919.

THE BUILD-UP TO WORLD WAR II - using information on the people and events of the 1920s and 1930s and how these led to war in 1939.

We all hope that this is enough information for you at the moment. If you have any questions please speak to your teacher in your next History lesson.

Kind regards & Good Luck.

History – Grade 8 CAL 2 Assessment task. The assessment = 20% of CAL 2 for History. The deadline is the first History lesson of the week beginning Monday 14th December. Good luck and please remember to ask for help if you are unsure. The Battle of Paschendaele in Belgium, which started on 31 July 1917. After three months of terrible rain and conditions where men drowned in mud the British had gained 3 miles of land at the cost of 310,000 casualties. Gallipoli in Turkey where the British, Australians and New Zealanders suffered 205,000 casualties between April 1915 and January 1916.
 * __ THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO BE AWARE OF IS THAT YOUR WORK MUST BE HAND WRITTEN. __**
 * __ THE NATURE OF THE TASK - IT IS A LETTER - MEANS THAT WE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY WORK THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED ON COMPUTER OR HAS BEEN WORDPROCESSED. __**
 * Write a letter from the Trenches. ** Things you need to consider:
 * Decide who you are writing to – wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, parents, grandparents.
 * Decide which battle you are fighting in. Either the Battle of the Somme, in France, which started on 1 July 1916 and led to 60,000 British casualties in the first two hours (20,000 of which died).
 * Remember to produce your letter in the proper way with a date and an address. Include your address at the front line and perhaps your regiment. Remember to end your letter properly.
 * Describe as much as you can about life in the trenches and what you have been through. Don’t forget to describe everyday life, digging trenches, food, weather conditions, lice, rats and how you felt about going over the top.
 * Discuss the weapons like tanks, machine guns, bayonets, gas and artillery shells.
 * You can also mention how troops felt about their allies, the French, their enemies the Germans and their Generals.

Censorship – Every letter was read by an officer to make sure that the letter did not say too much about the location of the men, in case the Germans intercepted it. All names, dates and information about future offensives were crossed out.

//__ GRADE 8 HISTORY __// __ Cal ____ 2 WWI Newspaper __ __ ** Your task: ** __ ** Produce a newspaper front page for 5th August 1914 that tells the story of how Great Britain entered World War I. **** You will produce this piece of work individually. **** You will be assessed on the finished “front page” of your newspaper. **** You will have two lessons to complete this task. **** The deadline for your piece of work will be 3pm (Thursday) 1:50pm (Friday) on the day of your final lesson. Please see your teacher to make sure that you have the correct date for this! ** You must produce a newspaper from 5th August 1914. In your newspaper article you MUST include information on why Great Britain entered the war in 1914. You MUST also include information about some of the factors that led Great Britain into the war in 1914 – the European alliance system, the rivalry between all of the nations, the rivalry over colonies in Africa, the rivalry between Great Britain and Germany over their navy, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914. __ ** To get top marks ** __
 * //__ World War I newspaper: __// **
 * ** 1) A newspaper front page on Great Britain’s entry into World War I. ** || ** You must produce a newspaper front page on Great Britain’s entry into World War I. **
 * The work must include all of the elements and factors mentioned above. **
 * The work must have the tone of a newspaper article. **
 * The work must look like a newspaper front page – with a heading for the newspaper’s name, the headline of the story, a picture to go with the story, and a date. **
 * You MUST include factual information about the reasons why Great Britain entered the war. **
 * You MUST include information on the importance of the various reasons why Great Britain entered the war as well as an explanation of the factors ** ||


 * ** Outbreak of WWI Newspaper Assessment – Humanities Grade 8 – CAL 2 – 20% ** ||
 * ** 17-20 marks – Excellent effort has been made on the task. All elements of Great Britain’s entry into World War One have been clearly understood and covered in detail. An excellent tone is achieved to the work – it sounds and reads like a newspaper front page and contains a newspaper ‘headline’ for the story, a date for publication, the newspaper’s name, and a related picture. **
 * Content MUST include the naval race between Britain & Germany, rivalry over colonies – particularly Morocco, the alliance system in 1914 with reference to ‘The Triple Alliance’ and ‘The Triple Entente’, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. All are mentioned and related to the overall “story” of Britain’s entry into war. ** ||
 * ** 13–16 marks: Good effort has been made on the task. The information on Great Britain’s entry into World War One is clear and understood and the detail is of a good standard. Differentiate here from ‘top’ level by way of strength of content – some elements will not be mentioned or only briefly so. The work produced may have elements (outlined in the 17-20 mark section) of the ‘look’ of a newspaper but have parts missing – the headline may be omitted for instance. **
 * Coverage of the key factors will be of a good standard but may lack detail on SOME of the parts. For instance, information about the alliances will be missing or confused. ** ||
 * ** 9-12 marks: Satisfactory effort has been made on the task. Some understanding of the entry of Great Britain into World War One is achieved BUT confusion is shown in some of the detail and content. Some key factors are not mentioned, and the outline of the appearance of the piece of work only contains elements of the ‘look’ of a newspaper. ** ||
 * ** 5-8 marks: Moderate effort has been made on this task. The newspaper is completed BUT the content is very brief and has large sections of the key factor missing. Detail within the factors that are mentioned is short and misses sections of important information. Presentation will NOT be reminiscent of a newspaper front page, and no image will be present ** ||
 * ** 0-4 marks: Little or no effort has been made to complete the task. The article is lacking in understanding and detail and has many inconsistencies. Presentation does not attempt to appear like a newspaper.  ** ||

September at the ABC is “El Salvador month” and with your second assessment task of CAL 1 you will continue researching aspects of Salvadoran history.

Your task: Produce a PowerPoint presentation of at least 10 slides on a famous Salvadoran OR famous Salvadoran historical site or building.

You will be able to work in pairs on this piece of assessed work.

You will be assessed on the your PowerPoint (10%) AND on your presentation (10%).

You will have a week to complete this task.

THE DEADLINE FOR THIS PIECE OF WORK WILL BE THE 1st LESSON OF THE WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY 12th OCTOBER.

El Salvador research 20%: 1) A PowerPoint on a famous Salvadoran OR famous Salvadoran historical site or building = 10% 2) A talk/presentation to accompany your PowerPoint = 10%

To get top marks

1) A PowerPoint/video on a famous Salvadoran OR famous Salvadoran historical site or building = 10% You must produce a PowerPoint (of at least 10 slides) on a famous Salvadoran OR on a famous Salvadoran historical site or building. Each slide must NOT contain more than 10 words including the title of the slide. You MUST include factual information about the person/site/building you have chosen. You MUST include information on the importance of the person/site/building to Salvadoran history. You MUST include information on the WHY you chose the particular person/site/building. You MUST include images of the person/site/building to accompany your presentation. 2) A talk/presentation to accompany your PowerPoint/video = 10%Your talk will accompany your presentation. You MUST have a script from which to read from during your presentation. This script must give further information or explain the slides you have created – YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO READ FROM YOUR SLIDES. In addition to all of the above, your teacher will need a printed copy of your presentation on the day of the deadline.

To help you complete your presentation you can use any books or internet resources that you can find at home or in the schools Learning resource centre. You may also bring your laptop computers to the lesson BUT you will NOT be allowed to leave the classroom to go to the LRC or to collect printing. ALL work must be completed in the lesson time or for your homework. Your teacher will expect all of the work you hand in will be your own original work and not copied from a book, website, or other source.

IMH & CVA

Option One** – Interview a relative or someone you know who experienced the Civil War in El Salvador. Your task is to produce a project about the person’s experiences. You MUST include pictures of the person and any pictures that relate to their story. You must INCLUDe information about what was happening in El Salvador at this time. Also include information (from your own research) about what was happening in the war in general at the same time. For instance, if you are telling the story of a grandparent say how the fighting affected their every day life.
 * DEADLINE OF FIRST CAL ASSESSMENT: 21ST OF SEPTEMBER- 23RD OF SEPTEMBER


 * Option Two – ** Not everyone will know someone who experienced El Salvador Civil War, and some may not wish to talk about the fighting. Some of your family and friends may not have lived in El Salvador at the time! Alternatively, for your project you can interview someone who is aged over sixty about their lives. You could interview them about their experience at school, or what life was like in El Salvador at some time in the past. You could also ask them about how they felt about significant world events from their lifetime. (the Cuban missile crisis, the first man on the moon, etc) Try to focus on their lives in the 1950s or 1960s or 1970s.

With both Options, try to think of questions you want to ask before you begin to interview the person you have chosen. You MUST ask “open ended” questions. These are questions, that cannot be answered with a “yes” o “no” answer. These open-ended questions will usually begin with ** “who”, “what”, “where”, “when” and “how”. ** Your project will be much better if your chosen person talks a lot and gives you lot of information about their lives. It will also be more interesting for you **SO GET THEM TALKING!!!**

Whichever project you decide to do, it will be the equivalent of **four pieces of homework** so you will be expected to produce at least eight A4 pages of work.

Your project MUST have:
 * Title page = **__ 5% __**
 * Contents page = **__ 5% __**
 * A transcript of your interview = **__ 20% __**
 * Historical Information that adds to the story. = **__ 10% __**
 * Images of the person you interview and that relate to their story. These will make the story more vivid. = **__ 10% __**