Year 9 History Research

Year 9 History Research Task

Individuals in Australian History 1901-1945

This task has 3 parts and is worth 30% of your final assessment. Look carefully at each component. All parts are to be completed.

Please hand in this sheet with your task. Put your name and class on your task.

Ask your teacher for help if you have any trouble understanding this task.

Due:    Week 1 term 4 BEFORE the 15^th October 2010.

From the list, choose ONE person to research.

John Flynn                                Vivien Bullwinkle                      William Morris Hughes

Charles Kingsford Smith           Nancy Wake                            Edith Cowan

Edmund Barton                        Edward “Weary” Dunlop          Daniel Mannix

Sir John Monash                       Sir Isaacs Isaacs                       Dame Nellie Melba      

Walter Burley Griffith                Captain Francis DeGroot          John Simpson Kirkpatrick

Nancy “Bird” Walton                Alfred Deakin                           Jack Lang

Part1

Create a time line for your chosen person. There must be a suitable scale and apart from their birth and death, 5 important events must be shown on your timeline.

                                                                                                                        5 marks          

Outcome assessed:      -locates, selects and organises relevant historical information from a number of sources, including ICT, to undertake historical inquiry.

Marking criteria:

Scale indicated; accurate timeline created; all events included	5
Scale indicated; timeline created and most events included	4
Scale but poorly drafted timeline and some events shown	3
No scale but most events indicated	2
No scale; only a couple of events indicated	1
No serious attempt made	0

 

Part 2

Choose one significant event in the life of your person.  Write a letter to your local paper, explaining why your person should appear as a sculpture (bust) in the newly created local park.                                                                                          10 marks

Outcomes assessed:     -uses historical terms and concepts in appropriate contexts.

-selects and uses appropriate oral, written and other forms, including ICT, to communicate effectively about the past for different audiences.

Marking criteria:

Correct format for a formal letter; significant event indicated; well written and expressed; reasons provided for the importance of the individual to Australia’s history	9-10
Correct format for a formal letter; significant event indicated; some errors in punctuation and spelling; some reasons provided for the importance of the individual to Australia’s history	7-8
Format for a letter with some errors; an event indicated; poorly constructed with errors in punctuation and spelling; some reasons provided for the importance of the individual to Australia’s history	4-6
Poorly constructed letter; an event indicated; limited reasons provided for importance of the individual to Australia’s history	3
Poorly constructed letter with limited attention to detail – just a few details about the persons life or a cut and paste effort using the internet.	1-2

 

 Part 3.

Create 5 picture plates for your chosen person to be placed in the local museum, which reflect aspects of their life and their achievements. For each picture plate, create your own captions which explain the event or detail in the picture.   15 marks

(Make sure that there are sufficient details in your caption).

Outcome assessed:     

                                               -uses sources appropriately in an historical inquiry

                                               -selects and uses appropriate oral, written and other forms, including ICT, to communicate effectively about the past for different audiences

CLICK here for photo and  caption diag

Marking Criteria

For each picture and caption:		1	2	3	4	5
an appropriate picture with detailed,  relevant information	3
a picture with relevant but limited information	2
a picture only; irrelevant details	1
TOTAL	/15

 

Total for task:               /30 marks

Comment:

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Bega War Memorial

Links to the Bega War Memorial

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM15ZW_Bega_War_Memorial_Bega_NSW_Australia

http://thebegavalley.org.au/index.php?id=4637&no_cache=1  (scroll down after opening link)

Mrs. Miller’s Ancient Egyptian Sites

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/whowastut.htm

http://www.egyptology.com/

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/tut/mysteries/

http://wysinger.homestead.com/kingtutankhamun4.html

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/

http://www.kingtutone.com/tutankhamun/enter/

Famous Black Europeans

Black Europeans

A series of features guest-curated by Mike Phillips for the British Library Online Gallery.

Popular versions of history have all too often airbrushed out the contribution of non-Europeans to Western arts and sciences. In recent years, however, scholars have begun to challenge the idea that race or ethnicity is a barrier which can stop individuals from participating in any culture they choose. In Europe this has encouraged a new drive to explore and understand the hidden or ignored contribution of people of African descent to the mainstream of European culture and society.

The figures featured in Black Europeans – Alexander Pushkin, Alexandre Dumas, George Polgreen Bridgetower, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and John Archer – all have a mixed European and African ancestry. Although they were fully conscious of their mixed backgrounds, they also regarded themselves as part of a European nation, and thought of their work as a contribution to their own sector of the culture of Europe and the world. And they were all figures whose public image and whose activities have been generally accepted (both by their contemporaries and by later generations) to be an important part of Europe’s cultural heritage – to the point where most people ignore, or have forgotten about, the ‘black’ element of their identity and its significance in their lives and work.

 (Author: Mike Phillips,  online at  http://portico.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/blackeuro/homepage.html -Accessed 24th Nov. 2009)

Holocaust

“INSIDE HANA’S SUITCASE” SITE IS AT  http://www.hanassuitcase.ca/

HOLOCAUST MUSEUM UNITED STATES  http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143

JEWISH VIRTUAL MUSEUM http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html

State Library of NSW

Online Convict art at NSW State Library

View the beautiful and original work of Australia’s most talented convict artists, recently added to our website. Their paintings and drawings have helped build our understanding of life in the new colony. Highlights include Richard Browne’s insect illustrations and John Eyre’s topographical views around Sydney.

View convict art from our collections 

© 2004. All rights reserved. Copyright in material contained within or comprising this website (including images, text, sound and video files, computer programs, databases and scripts) is administered by the State Library of New South Wales and is owned by the Library Council of New South Wales (the governing body of the State Library of New South Wales) or the State of New South Wales in accordance with the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and international copyright laws. Some material on this website may belong to third parties and is included on this website by arrangement.

World War I

Gallipoli -The First Day-ABC  site

http://www.abc.net.au/innovation/gallipoli/gallipoli2.htm#

Pharlap

Pharlap at the Museum of Victoria http://museumvictoria.com.au/pharlap/

Book reviews

Book Review of  My Side by David Beckham/Tom Watt

This review is by Ben Wheeler from Leicestershire, KHS
Ben Wheeler wrote this review when 11 years old. This review and many others is available at Cool-reads books for 10-15 year olds
 

My Side  by David Beckham/Tom WattCollins Willow, 2003, 404 pages, ISBN 0007157320

How easy was it to get stuck into this book?
Very easy because I don’t read that many books and this is probably one of my most enjoyed books I’ve read for a long time so it must be pretty good. It’s not exciting or anything it’s just interesting to know the way famous people handle things.

Who are the main characters?
It is a book about the life of David Beckham it’s sort of a cross between a biography and an autobiography because David Beckham’s biographer helped him it’s got David Beckham going through childhood signing for the Manchester united youth team and everything important that’s happened in his life.

What’s the storyline?
Basically Beckham sees an advert in the paper for a local team called Ridgeway Rovers there were 3 other lads that ended up pro’s there. so he went to play with them and one day a Man u scout came along (Beckham was crazy about Man u). He’d a really good game and the scout said to his mum “would your son like to come and have a trial at united” and yes everyone who’s reading this can guess what happened he ended up signing for united but there was another club from London that wanted his signature and then the rest of the story is about him as a Man u and England player

How’s it written?
It is written as a narrator sort of telling the story because it is kind of an autobiography it is written with me, her, him etc.

Other books by the same author that Ben Wheeler knows about?
none

The overall verdict is
Really good stuff

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

(Courtesy Allen & Unwin)

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

A celebration of literature, love, and the power of the human spirit, this warm, funny, tender, and thoroughly entertaining novel is the story of an English author living in the shadow of World War II and the writing project that will dramatically change her life. An international bestseller now in paperback.

Description

A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart.
It’s 1946, and as Juliet Ashton sits at her desk in her Chelsea flat, she is stumped. A writer of witty newspaper columns during the war, she can’t think of what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from one Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – by chance he’s acquired a book Juliet once owned – and, emboldened by their mutual love of books, they begin a correspondence.
Dawsey is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and it’s not long before the rest of the members write to Juliet – including the gawky Isola, who makes home-made potions, Eben, the fisherman who loves Shakespeare, and Will Thisbee, rag-and-bone man and chef of the famous potato peel pie. As letters fly back and forth, Juliet comes to know the extraordinary personalities of the Society and their lives under the German occupation of the island. Entranced by their stories, Juliet decides to visit the island to meet them properly – and unwittingly turns her life upside down.
Gloriously honest, enchanting and funny, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is sure to win your heart.
‘I can’t remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one. Treat yourself to this book, please – I can’t recommend it highly enough.’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love.

About Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Mary Ann Shaffer wrote The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she was a retired bookseller and librarian, in her seventies. She died in 2008, just before her book was published.

Liar

(Courtesy Allen & Unwin)

Justine Larbalestier

Secrets, lies, murder and betrayal.Micah Wilkins admits she’s a liar. But will murder be enough of a reason to stop lying? An extraordinary and original story that will have you grasping for the truth until the very last page.

Description

Micah Wilkins is a liar. But when her boyfriend, Zach, dies under brutal circumstances, the shock might be enough to set her straight. Or maybe not. Especially when lying comes as naturally to her as breathing. Was Micah dating Zach? Did they kiss? Did she see him the night he died? And is she really hiding a family secret? Where does the actual truth lie?
Liar is a breathtaking roller-coaster read that will have you up all night, desperately seeking for something true.

About Justine Larbalestier
Justine Larbalestier is a Sydney girl who divides her time between Sydney and New York City. She is the author of How to Ditch Your Fairy and the Magic or Madness trilogy. Magic or Madness won the 2007 Andre Norton Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Ethel Turner Award. Liar is the novel that’s been messing with her mind for the last five years. You can find her daily outpourings at justinelarbalestier.com.

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• All titles by this author
• Justine Larbalestier’s profile
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For teachers

• Reviews by teachers (PDF) 

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