• Length of Study: One Semester

Subject Overview

The Australian Curriculum for History provides students with the opportunity to deepen discipline-specific knowledge, understandings and skills. The content is organised into two strands: knowledge and understanding, and inquiry and skills. These strands provide opportunities for students to develop historical understanding through key concepts including evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy, significance and contestability. In Year 10 Modern History the area of learning this semester includes the history of the modern world and Australia from 1900 to the present, with an emphasis on Australia in its global context.

Students undertake study in Year 10 Modern History through the following topics:

• Pop Culture
• World War II – The Pacific War and the Home Front

Assessment

Year 10 assessment is comprised of 100% school-based assessment. Students demonstrate evidence of their learning through the following assessment types:

• Assessment Type 1: Skills and Applications Tasks (85%)
• Assessment Type 2: Exam (15%)

Examination:

• This subject has a 100 minute online Examination at the end of the semester.