Year 10 History

Unit 3: Globalising the world

Putting this unit in context…

The Year 10 History course (2012) traces the development of the modern world with a focus on Australia’s role and position in this world.

The course supplies a snapshot of some of the key influences that have shaped the modern world.

Unit 1 – World War II

Unit 2 – Rights and Freedoms

Unit 3 – The Globalising world

Focus & Skills

The key focus through out the year has been the recognition, understanding, and analysis of the events that have led to the growth and development of the modern world.

The key skills we have developed have been:

Research and analysis (essay writing)

Document analysis

Visual analysis

Analysis of continuity and change

Unit 3 - Assessments

Unit 3 “The globalising world” includes two formal (on your report) assessments tasks.

1.Visual analysisThis will have two parts:

1. A presentation on an iconic image of the modern world of your choice (40%)

2. An in class visual analysis test (60%)

2.TestThis will assess an understanding of cause and effect in the context of continuity and change.

Quick refresher…Write down three fundamental changes to the world and/or Australia’s place in the world that arose as a result of World War II.

Australia shifted its focus (its allegiance) from England to America.

The Holocaust focused the world on the question of human rights.

The use of nuclear weapons changed the nature of war.

The shift in the role of women from domestic to industrial labour.

The consequential development and growth of women’s rights.

Expediential technological, scientific, and medical advances.

The discovery of penicillin is commonly attributed to Alexander Fleming in 1928. Yet by June 1942, there was only enough US penicillin available to treat ten patients. In July 1943, the War Production Board drew up a plan for the mass distribution of penicillin stocks to Allied troops fighting in Europe.

One source suggests that penicillin has saved at least 200 million lives as of 2012…

Question:Does the development and mass distribution

of penicillin go someway to “justify”

the 60-70 million people who died in

World War 2?

Quick refresher…

Answer the following questions:

What document did the experiences of World War II (in particular, the Holocaust) lead to?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

How did the experience of African Americans fight in World War II affect the development of the Civil Rights Movement in America?

African American’s fought and died alongside “white” Americans, during World War II, for America’s freedom. The nature of the battlefield broke divisions between these two groups. Fighting for freedom overseas forced the issue of freedom and equality back home.

Quick refresher…How are the events of Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) related to the push for equal rights for the Australian Aboriginal people?

The only private protest against the Germans following Kristallnacht was held on December 6, 1938. 

William Cooper, an Aboriginal Australian, led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League on a march through Melbourne to the German Consulate to deliver a petition which condemned the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany.”

The German officials refused to take the document.

Australian aboriginals were empathic to the Jews. The Jewish experience of persecution and the world’s subsequent reactions reinforced Australian aboriginals’ appreciation of their own persecution.

Unit 3 – The Globalising world

This quick refresher focus us on the notion of cause & effect at play in history.

The appreciation of cause & effect and continuity & change form the basis of the learning intentions for Unit 3.

We shall examine these ideas through:

A) Referral to the topics studied (WWII and Rights & Freedoms)

and,

B) Consideration of the development of “Popular culture” (1945-present)

Unit 3 – TimeframeWk.1 •Intro PP •What can popular culture

tell us?•Australia through the decades film / music / fashion

•Model visual analysis•Set student presentation task(Due Wk.3)

Wk.2 •Recognising links PP and group work•Follow up writing task

•Tracing Australian music 1 •Tracing Australian music 2

Wk.3 •Student image presentations

•Visual analysis test •Tracing Australian film & television

Wk.4 •Concepts of “aboriginal” in filmJedda / Rabbit proof fence / Bran Nue Dae)

• Cause & Effect Test •Concepts of “land” in filmPicnic at Hanging Rock / Mad Max / The Castle

Wk.5 •“land” in film …Picnic at Hanging Rock / Mad Max / The Castle

•Concepts of “identity” in filmGallipoli / Crocodile Dundee / Muriel's Wedding

•“identity” in film … Gallipoli / Crocodile Dundee / Muriel's Wedding