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Y7/8 Humanities
Year 7
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1. Hong Kong - Live it, Love it
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1. What is Hong Kong like?
2. How has Hong Kong changed?
3. How can we use sources to find out about Hong Kong?
4. How can we plan for a fieldwork trip?
5. Completing the Travel Guide
2. Beliefs and Believers
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1. Ultimate Questions
2. Creation Stories
3. Religion in Hong Kong
4. Religion and the Environment
5. Religion and Evolution
6. Religion vs Science - The Debate
7. End of Unit Assessment
4. Culture and Country
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1. What is Cultural Identity?
2. China's Cultural Identity
3. Kashgar's Cultural Identity
4. Japan's Cultural Identity
5. End of Unit Assessment
Year 8
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1. Happiness
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1. Happiness and Me
2. Religions and Happiness
3. Happiness Around the World
4. Happiness and Economics
5. Society and Happiness
6. End of Unit Assessment
2. Emergency on Planet Earth
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1. Consumption and the Environment
2. Biomes and the Biosphere
3. Tropical Rainforests
4. Deforestation
5. Conservation
6. Plastic Seas Assessment
3. Life after Death
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1. What happens when we die?
2. Mythology and the Afterlife
3. Happy Valley Cemetery Visit
4. Religion and the Afterlife
5. Life After Death Assessment
4. Crime & Punishment
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1. What is Crime?
2. Hero or Villain?
3. Jack the Ripper
4. Crime Writing
5. The Geography of Crime
6. Henry VIII Assessment
Y9 History
1. Innovation & Industry
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1. Causes
2. Innovations
3. Conditions
4. Changes
5. Sources
6-7. Assessment 1
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The USA
8. Reflection
Old History
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1. Hong Kong Story
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Further Reading
2. The Slave Trade
3. The First World War
4. The Changing Role of Women
Elements
Big History Project
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1. What is Big History?
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1.0 - Welcome to Big History
1.1 - Scale
1.2 - Origin Stories
1.3 - What are Disciplines?
1.4 - My Big History
Glossary
2. The Big Bang
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2.0 - Changing Understandings
2.1 - The Big Bang
2.2 - Claim Testing
Glossary
Links & Resources
3. Stars and Elements
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3.0 - How were stars formed?
3.1 - Creation of Complex Elements
3.2 - Ways of Knowing: Stars & Elements
Glossary
4. Our Solar System & Earth
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4.0 - Formation of Earth & Our Solar System
4.1 - What was young Earth like?
4.2 - Why is Plate Tectonics important?
4.3 - Ways of Knowing: Our Solar System and Earth
Glossary
5. Life
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5.0 - What is Life?
5.1 - How did Life Begin and Change?
5.2 - How do Earth and Life Interact?
5.3 - Ways of Knowing: Life
Glossary
6. Early Humans
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6.0 - How Our Ancesters Evolved
6.1 - Ways of Knowing: Early Humans
6.2 - Collective Learning
6.3 - How did the First Humans live?
Glossary
7. Agriculture & Civilisation
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7.0 - The Rise of Agriculture
7.1 - The First Cities and States
7.2 - Ways of Knowing: Agriculture & Civilisation
Glossary
8. Expansion & Interconnection
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8.0 - Expansion
8.1 - Exploration & Interconnection
8.2 - The Columbian Exchange
8.3 - Commerce & Collective Learning
Glossary
9. Acceleration
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9.0 - Transitions, Thresholds & Turning Points in Human History
9.1 - Acceleration
9.2 - The Anthropocene
9.3 - Changing Economies
9.4 - Industrialism
9.5 - Modern States and Identities
9.6 - Crisis and Conflict
9.7 - Acceleration: Demographic, Political, and Technological
Glossary
10. The Future
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10.0 - Looking Back
10.1 - The Biosphere
10.2 - Looking Forward
Glossary
Assessment Rubrics
Key Texts
Little Big History
Further Reading
Further Watching
Thresholds of Increasing Complexity
Student Work
National History Day
IGCSE
Germany 1918-45
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1. The Establishment of the Weimar Republic & Its Early Problems
2. The Recovery of Germany 1924-1929
3. The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis 1919-1933
4. Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1939
5. Germany during the Second World War
Old Exam Questions
Further Reading
Further Watching
China 1900-89
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1. China 1900-1934
2. Mao & the CCP 1934-1949
3. Change under Mao 1949-1963
4. The Impact of the Cultural Revolution
5. China after Mao 1976-1989
Old Exam Questions
Further Reading
Further Watching
US Civil Rights 1945-74
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1. McCarthyism and the Red Scare
2. Civil Rights in the 1950s
3. The Impact of MLK & Black Power
4. Protest Movements
5. Nixon & Watergate
Old Exam Questions
Further Reading
Further Watching
Russia & the USSR 1905-24
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Old Exam Questions
Past Papers
IBDP
Paper 1: The Move to Global War
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1. Japanese Expansion
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1. Impact of the Meiji Restoration
2. Foreign Policy in the 1920s
3. The Invasion of Manchuria
4. The Sino-Japanese War
5. The Road to War
2. German and Italian Expansion
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1. Causes of Italian Expansion
2. Responses to Italian Expansion
3. Causes of German Expansion
4. Responses to German Expansion
5. The Road to War in Europe
Exam Questions
Paper 2: The Cold War
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1. Introduction to the Cold War
2. Causes of the Cold War
3. The Cold War in Asia
4. Course of the Cold War
5. End of the Cold War
6. The Impact of Leaders
7. The Impact of Crises
8. Impact on Nations
Exam Questions
Further Reading
Glossary
Historiography
Primary Sources
Paper 2: Authoritarian States
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1. Emergence of Authoritarian States
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1. Why do Authoritarian States emerge?
2. Rise of Hitler
3. Rise of Mao
4. Rise of Castro
5. Rise of Stalin
6. Comparing the Emergence of Authoritarian States
2. Consolidation & Maintenance of Power
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1. Hitler's Germany 1933-45
2. Mao's China 1949-1976
3. Castro's Cuba 1959-Present
4. Comparing the Rule of Authoritarian States
3. Aims and Results of Domestic Policies
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4. Comparing Domestic Policies
Exam Questions
Paper 3: Asia and Oceania
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Paper 3: Imperial Decline in East Asia 1860-1912
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1. The Tongzhi Restoration
2. Impact of the Boxer Rebellion
3. The 1911 Xinhai Revolution
4. The Meiji Restoration
5. Early Japanese Imperialism
6. The Opening of Korea
Exam Questions
Paper 3: Japan 1912-1990
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1. Taisho Japan
2. The Rise of Militarism
3. The Move to Global War
4. The Pacific War
5. The US Occupation
6. The 'Economic Miracle'
Exam Questions
Paper 3: China and Korea 1910-1950
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1. Rise of National Identity 1911-1927
2. Nationalist Rule in China 1927-1937
3. Rise of Communism in China
4. Japanese Invasion and Civil War 1937-1949
5. Japanese Occupation of Korea 1910-1945
6. Taiwan - The Republic of China
Exam Questions
Paper 3: The People's Republic of China 1949-2005
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1. Establishment of the Communist State 1949-1961
2. The Transition to Socialism 1949-1976
3. The Cultural Revolution
4. China's Foreign Affairs 1949-1976
5. China after Mao 1976-2000
6. China's Impact on the Region
Exam Questions
Further Reading
Historiography
Primary Sources
Internal Assessment
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Forming Questions
Researching Primary Sources
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New York Times Digital Archive
SCMP Digital Archive
Researching Secondary Sources
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Google Scholar
History Today
HK Public Library e-resources
jstor
questia
Worldcat
Source Evaluation
Chicago Citation Format
IA Help Guide
Extended Essay
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1. Title Page
2. Abstract & Contents Page
3. Introduction
4. Body of the Essay
5. Conclusion
6. References, Bibliography & Appendices
Mark Schemes
Revision
Hall of Fame
TOK
Resources
About Us
History Trips
5 C's - Skills Framework
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Blog Resources
ChronoZoom
Further Listening
Further Reading
Further Watching
ICT Design Resources
individualsandsocieties.com
IS History Magazine
islandeducators.com
jstor.org
mrbuddhistory.com
questiaschool.com
Revision Strategies
History Help
Blog
Historical Content
Historical Concepts
Historical Skills
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Essay Planning
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1. Forming Questions
2. Command Words
3. Topic Analysis
4. Essay Structure
Essay Writing
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1. Introductions
2. Conclusions
3. Words and Phrases
4. Quotations
5. Sentences
6. Width and Depth
7. Citing Sources
8. Spelling and Grammar
Home
Y7/8 Humanities
Year 7
>
1. Hong Kong - Live it, Love it
>
1. What is Hong Kong like?
2. How has Hong Kong changed?
3. How can we use sources to find out about Hong Kong?
4. How can we plan for a fieldwork trip?
5. Completing the Travel Guide
2. Beliefs and Believers
>
1. Ultimate Questions
2. Creation Stories
3. Religion in Hong Kong
4. Religion and the Environment
5. Religion and Evolution
6. Religion vs Science - The Debate
7. End of Unit Assessment
4. Culture and Country
>
1. What is Cultural Identity?
2. China's Cultural Identity
3. Kashgar's Cultural Identity
4. Japan's Cultural Identity
5. End of Unit Assessment
Year 8
>
1. Happiness
>
1. Happiness and Me
2. Religions and Happiness
3. Happiness Around the World
4. Happiness and Economics
5. Society and Happiness
6. End of Unit Assessment
2. Emergency on Planet Earth
>
1. Consumption and the Environment
2. Biomes and the Biosphere
3. Tropical Rainforests
4. Deforestation
5. Conservation
6. Plastic Seas Assessment
3. Life after Death
>
1. What happens when we die?
2. Mythology and the Afterlife
3. Happy Valley Cemetery Visit
4. Religion and the Afterlife
5. Life After Death Assessment
4. Crime & Punishment
>
1. What is Crime?
2. Hero or Villain?
3. Jack the Ripper
4. Crime Writing
5. The Geography of Crime
6. Henry VIII Assessment
Y9 History
1. Innovation & Industry
>
1. Causes
2. Innovations
3. Conditions
4. Changes
5. Sources
6-7. Assessment 1
>
The USA
8. Reflection
Old History
>
1. Hong Kong Story
>
Further Reading
2. The Slave Trade
3. The First World War
4. The Changing Role of Women
Elements
Big History Project
>
1. What is Big History?
>
1.0 - Welcome to Big History
1.1 - Scale
1.2 - Origin Stories
1.3 - What are Disciplines?
1.4 - My Big History
Glossary
2. The Big Bang
>
2.0 - Changing Understandings
2.1 - The Big Bang
2.2 - Claim Testing
Glossary
Links & Resources
3. Stars and Elements
>
3.0 - How were stars formed?
3.1 - Creation of Complex Elements
3.2 - Ways of Knowing: Stars & Elements
Glossary
4. Our Solar System & Earth
>
4.0 - Formation of Earth & Our Solar System
4.1 - What was young Earth like?
4.2 - Why is Plate Tectonics important?
4.3 - Ways of Knowing: Our Solar System and Earth
Glossary
5. Life
>
5.0 - What is Life?
5.1 - How did Life Begin and Change?
5.2 - How do Earth and Life Interact?
5.3 - Ways of Knowing: Life
Glossary
6. Early Humans
>
6.0 - How Our Ancesters Evolved
6.1 - Ways of Knowing: Early Humans
6.2 - Collective Learning
6.3 - How did the First Humans live?
Glossary
7. Agriculture & Civilisation
>
7.0 - The Rise of Agriculture
7.1 - The First Cities and States
7.2 - Ways of Knowing: Agriculture & Civilisation
Glossary
8. Expansion & Interconnection
>
8.0 - Expansion
8.1 - Exploration & Interconnection
8.2 - The Columbian Exchange
8.3 - Commerce & Collective Learning
Glossary
9. Acceleration
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9.0 - Transitions, Thresholds & Turning Points in Human History
9.1 - Acceleration
9.2 - The Anthropocene
9.3 - Changing Economies
9.4 - Industrialism
9.5 - Modern States and Identities
9.6 - Crisis and Conflict
9.7 - Acceleration: Demographic, Political, and Technological
Glossary
10. The Future
>
10.0 - Looking Back
10.1 - The Biosphere
10.2 - Looking Forward
Glossary
Assessment Rubrics
Key Texts
Little Big History
Further Reading
Further Watching
Thresholds of Increasing Complexity
Student Work
National History Day
IGCSE
Germany 1918-45
>
1. The Establishment of the Weimar Republic & Its Early Problems
2. The Recovery of Germany 1924-1929
3. The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis 1919-1933
4. Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1939
5. Germany during the Second World War
Old Exam Questions
Further Reading
Further Watching
China 1900-89
>
1. China 1900-1934
2. Mao & the CCP 1934-1949
3. Change under Mao 1949-1963
4. The Impact of the Cultural Revolution
5. China after Mao 1976-1989
Old Exam Questions
Further Reading
Further Watching
US Civil Rights 1945-74
>
1. McCarthyism and the Red Scare
2. Civil Rights in the 1950s
3. The Impact of MLK & Black Power
4. Protest Movements
5. Nixon & Watergate
Old Exam Questions
Further Reading
Further Watching
Russia & the USSR 1905-24
>
Old Exam Questions
Past Papers
IBDP
Paper 1: The Move to Global War
>
1. Japanese Expansion
>
1. Impact of the Meiji Restoration
2. Foreign Policy in the 1920s
3. The Invasion of Manchuria
4. The Sino-Japanese War
5. The Road to War
2. German and Italian Expansion
>
1. Causes of Italian Expansion
2. Responses to Italian Expansion
3. Causes of German Expansion
4. Responses to German Expansion
5. The Road to War in Europe
Exam Questions
Paper 2: The Cold War
>
1. Introduction to the Cold War
2. Causes of the Cold War
3. The Cold War in Asia
4. Course of the Cold War
5. End of the Cold War
6. The Impact of Leaders
7. The Impact of Crises
8. Impact on Nations
Exam Questions
Further Reading
Glossary
Historiography
Primary Sources
Paper 2: Authoritarian States
>
1. Emergence of Authoritarian States
>
1. Why do Authoritarian States emerge?
2. Rise of Hitler
3. Rise of Mao
4. Rise of Castro
5. Rise of Stalin
6. Comparing the Emergence of Authoritarian States
2. Consolidation & Maintenance of Power
>
1. Hitler's Germany 1933-45
2. Mao's China 1949-1976
3. Castro's Cuba 1959-Present
4. Comparing the Rule of Authoritarian States
3. Aims and Results of Domestic Policies
>
4. Comparing Domestic Policies
Exam Questions
Paper 3: Asia and Oceania
>
Paper 3: Imperial Decline in East Asia 1860-1912
>
1. The Tongzhi Restoration
2. Impact of the Boxer Rebellion
3. The 1911 Xinhai Revolution
4. The Meiji Restoration
5. Early Japanese Imperialism
6. The Opening of Korea
Exam Questions
Paper 3: Japan 1912-1990
>
1. Taisho Japan
2. The Rise of Militarism
3. The Move to Global War
4. The Pacific War
5. The US Occupation
6. The 'Economic Miracle'
Exam Questions
Paper 3: China and Korea 1910-1950
>
1. Rise of National Identity 1911-1927
2. Nationalist Rule in China 1927-1937
3. Rise of Communism in China
4. Japanese Invasion and Civil War 1937-1949
5. Japanese Occupation of Korea 1910-1945
6. Taiwan - The Republic of China
Exam Questions
Paper 3: The People's Republic of China 1949-2005
>
1. Establishment of the Communist State 1949-1961
2. The Transition to Socialism 1949-1976
3. The Cultural Revolution
4. China's Foreign Affairs 1949-1976
5. China after Mao 1976-2000
6. China's Impact on the Region
Exam Questions
Further Reading
Historiography
Primary Sources
Internal Assessment
>
Forming Questions
Researching Primary Sources
>
New York Times Digital Archive
SCMP Digital Archive
Researching Secondary Sources
>
Google Scholar
History Today
HK Public Library e-resources
jstor
questia
Worldcat
Source Evaluation
Chicago Citation Format
IA Help Guide
Extended Essay
>
1. Title Page
2. Abstract & Contents Page
3. Introduction
4. Body of the Essay
5. Conclusion
6. References, Bibliography & Appendices
Mark Schemes
Revision
Hall of Fame
TOK
Resources
About Us
History Trips
5 C's - Skills Framework
>
Blog Resources
ChronoZoom
Further Listening
Further Reading
Further Watching
ICT Design Resources
individualsandsocieties.com
IS History Magazine
islandeducators.com
jstor.org
mrbuddhistory.com
questiaschool.com
Revision Strategies
History Help
Blog
Historical Content
Historical Concepts
Historical Skills
>
Essay Planning
>
1. Forming Questions
2. Command Words
3. Topic Analysis
4. Essay Structure
Essay Writing
>
1. Introductions
2. Conclusions
3. Words and Phrases
4. Quotations
5. Sentences
6. Width and Depth
7. Citing Sources
8. Spelling and Grammar