History Extension exam thoughts (1 Viewer)

[aulinia]

Denial of the holocaust Irving vs Lipstadt

My go to as well!!! I do the Australian frontier as my case study and the windschuttle/reynolds debate is

 

[raspberriesandpears]

Does anyone have fav historians or debates etc you always use for Section 1??
Reynolds and Windschuttle are my whole life hhahaha

i WILL talk about plutarch in every essay i do

 

[raspberriesandpears]

does anyone do maggie thatcher for case study?? i honestly love it - i talk about "death of a revolutionary" in every essay because it's hysterical

 

[SamDavisEnjoyer420]

What Ancient topics r u doing (sorry to bring ancient into a hisext discussion)

i do sparta, julius caesar, and the fall of the roman republic
i would have been so happy to do any of the ancient case studies in extension but alas when i brought up the civil war of pompey and caesar in extension i realised my teacher knew nothing......... smh

i WILL talk about plutarch in every essay i do

i main ancient why have i never thought of this

 

[raspberriesandpears]

i main ancient why have i never thought of this

oh you NEED to it's my favourite thing
methodology, purpose, context, type of history, you can get him in all of them
i don't even do ancient but plutarch was a facet of my major work so i'm very confident in him
i also like bede because i did a lot of hagiographical stuff in my mw too

 

[band6yesplease]

oh you NEED to it's my favourite thing
methodology, purpose, context, type of history, you can get him in all of them
i don't even do ancient but plutarch was a facet of my major work so i'm very confident in him
i also like bede because i did a lot of hagiographical stuff in my mw too

Omg what why does ur major work sound so good
can u copy and paste so we can read it?? hahah

 

[graceluvsA's]

oh you NEED to it's my favourite thing
methodology, purpose, context, type of history, you can get him in all of them
i don't even do ancient but plutarch was a facet of my major work so i'm very confident in him
i also like bede because i did a lot of hagiographical stuff in my mw too

I love Bede. I love Von Ranke too but just to shit on him for his quest of the absolute.

 

[jesusandpals]

yall idk what im doing for this subject anyone have any advice ?? i hate history extension so much

 

[band6yesplease]

I love Bede. I love Von Ranke too but just to shit on him for his quest of the absolute.

VR: "I wish i could annihilate myself and let the facts speak" why u so dramatic hahahahaha

 

[band6yesplease]

yall idk what im doing for this subject anyone have any advice ?? i hate history extension so much

Honestly no one knows it is such a weird ass subject

 

[jesusandpals]

Honestly no one knows it is such a weird ass subject

i've abandoned it atp i have no hope

 

[aulinia]

Honestly no one knows it is such a weird ass subject

I thought it was just me like its literally so confusing idk what i say half the time

 

[graceluvsA's]

I'm gonna just post my note taking of what they asked in the past years since 2017 to try and predict what they will ask us this year:

2017:
- Constructing: Purpose of history and one source but copyrighted.
- Case studies: Source about history being capable of being shaped (so broad omg)

2018:
- Constructing: How can historians construct and record history? Only one source again.
- Case studies: WHY historians approached changes (cant see copyright source).

2019:
- Constructing: How does EVIDENCE shape the construction of history? 2 sources.
- Case studies: How do changing METHODS shape interpretations? Only one debate needed.

2020:
- Constructing: Evaluate the significance of AUDIENCE in the production (interesting word choice) of history. 2 sources.
- Case studies: To what extent does historical debate inform our understanding of the past. 1 source to refer to and two areas of debate needed.

2021:
- Constructing: To what extent can historians be CERTAIN about the past. two sources.
- Case studies: Evaluate the significance of CONTEXT in the construction of historical interpretations. AND THEY GAVE A PHOTO

2022:
- Constructing: To what extent does CHANGING TECHNOLOGY influenced approaches. 2 sources to refer to.
- Case studies: Mary Beard quote: "The role of an academic is to make everything less simple" (Why is that so true), to what extent do you agree?

 

[graceluvsA's]

NOW MY PREDICTION

Constructing:
They have not assessed us on:
- Role of history.
- Misuse and use of history.
- Forms of history
- Types of history: political, social, economic, environmental, military, academic, popular, national, local, surveys, macrohistories, microhistories, biographies, psychohistories, historical fiction
- Availability of historical evidence.

Case studies:
They have not assessed us on:
- Popular interpretations of perspectives of area of debate.
- The shaping of interpretation: sources and form of communication.

 

[SamDavisEnjoyer420]

NOW MY PREDICTION

Constructing:
They have not assessed us on:
- Role of history.
- Misuse and use of history.
- Forms of history
- Types of history: political, social, economic, environmental, military, academic, popular, national, local, surveys, macrohistories, microhistories, biographies, psychohistories, historical fiction
- Availability of historical evidence.

Case studies:
They have not assessed us on:
- Popular interpretations of perspectives of area of debate.
- The shaping of interpretation: sources and form of communication.

omg i am so grateful for this i'll exclusively study these dot points tbh

i think my dumb case study fits the shaping of interpretation dot point really well, and also the fact that they havent tested popular interpretations yet means i can justify playing crusader kings 3 for research purposes...

 

[math struggler]

NOW MY PREDICTION

Constructing:
They have not assessed us on:
- Role of history.
- Misuse and use of history.
- Forms of history
- Types of history: political, social, economic, environmental, military, academic, popular, national, local, surveys, macrohistories, microhistories, biographies, psychohistories, historical fiction
- Availability of historical evidence.

Case studies:
They have not assessed us on:
- Popular interpretations of perspectives of area of debate.
- The shaping of interpretation: sources and form of communication.

Wait this may be dumb but for the case study, what is actually meant by popular interpretations? Like I do JFK and blab on about how the revisionists (ppl from like 1970s) are all anachronistic in their historiography and suck. Can I talk about them still for pop history?

 

[math struggler]

NOW MY PREDICTION

Constructing:
They have not assessed us on:
- Role of history.
- Misuse and use of history.
- Forms of history
- Types of history: political, social, economic, environmental, military, academic, popular, national, local, surveys, macrohistories, microhistories, biographies, psychohistories, historical fiction
- Availability of historical evidence.

Case studies:
They have not assessed us on:
- Popular interpretations of perspectives of area of debate.
- The shaping of interpretation: sources and form of communication.

Also in terms of predictions they haven't assessed us on changing philosophies yet either. That's one of those little wriggly dotpoints like "changing technologies" hidden at the bottom of the syllabus, and considering last years I wouldn't be surprised if they chose it.

 

[chokingonyouralibi]

Does anyone have fav historians or debates etc you always use for Section 1??
Reynolds and Windschuttle are my whole life hhahaha

herodotus is like the basis of every single one of my essays haha; usually contrasted with Thucydides so I can make that paragraph actually big enough

 

[SamDavisEnjoyer420]

herodotus is like the basis of every single one of my essays haha; usually contrasted with Thucydides so I can make that paragraph actually big enough

same lol i think no matter what they ask tomorrow i will use herodotus and thucydides as well as irving's holocaust denial

on the topic of tomorrow i just want to say that i am so screwed guys like if they test the forms of historical communication sub question its actually so over... pls be the use and misuse of history i will spend 9 of those reading time minutes crying of happiness

 

[kingpalindrome]

I'm so underprepared, I can't remember any historians for Napoleon and I've got no clue how to structure my arguments