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Mr. Economakis
May 19, 2012
HISTORY 10
IB HISTORY 11
IB HISTORY 12
LANGUAGE SUPPORT 8
LANGUAGE SUPPORT 9
SATURDAY ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM
The course covers the First World War, the Russian Revolution, International Relations, 1918-39, the Russian Revolution, Stalin, Hitler, the Second World War, and an Introduction to the Cold War. Textbook: Essential Modern World History by Steven Waugh, Nelson Thorne publisher
STUDY GUIDE: You will be expected to know everything we are able to cover in Chapter 3, International Relations, and everyting in Chapter 8, Germany, 1918-45.
HISTORY 11
The course is a requirement for ISA’s High School Diploma, and it prepares students for the IB (International Baccalaureate) exam and other college entrance exams. The five major themes that are studied are: a) Peace making, peace-keeping: international relations, 1918-1935; b) Causes, practices and effects of wars; c) Origins and development of authoritarian states; d) Cold War; and e) Aspects of the history of Europe and the Middle East.
STUDY GUIDE: You ought to be able to write at length and in detail about the causes of WWI, the factors that contributed to Hitler and Mussolini`s rise to power, and the weaknesses, failures and successes of the League of Nations.
Furthermore, you ought to be able to identify the Crimean War, the Franco-Prussian War, the Three Emperor`s League, the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-8, the Congress of Berlin, the Dual Alliance, the Triple Alliance, the Fashoda Incident, the Entente Cordiale, the First Moroccan Crisis, the Triple Entente, Pan-Slavism, the Annexation of Bosnia-Herzogovina, the Second Moroccan Crisis, the First and Second Balkan Wars, and the Schlieffen Plan.
The aim of the course is to prepare students for the IB exam and other college entrance exams and to provide them with the knowledge, analytical and methodological tools they will need at the university level. The emphasis is on essay-writing and analysis of the origin, purpose and value of primary and secondary sources. The students are expected to write an Internal Assessment Essay and/or an Extended Essay. The former is between 1500 and 2000 words in length and is assessed by the ISA instructor; it is more a historiographical work rather than a regular history report. The Extended Essay, by contrast, is a research paper with a maximum of 4000 words that lets the students investigate a topic of special interest and answer a question; that is, the students must not produce a strictly descriptive work, but rather one that sheds light on a question. The Extended Essay is assessed externally
We will be reading this book by AJP Taylor during the first few weeks of the year: www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/Origins_Second_World_War.pdf
BRING YOUR HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY BOOKS TO CLASS
BRING YOUR HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY BOOKS TO CLASS!
