Whangarei Girls’ High School
Level 2 History (THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL FOR 2025, PLEASE CHOOSE ANOTHER COURSE)
2HIS
Course Description
In Level 2 History, students will engage with the past in order to better understand the present and future. This course focuses on some of the contested events of the 20th Century including weird conspiracies, racism in New Zealand and Australia, and the crisis of the Vietnam war.
Learning Opportunities
In this course you will need to:
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Critical thinking - reasoning, interpreting information, explaining, identifying patterns and trends, synthesising information, making judgements based on evidence.
| - Conspiracies and Mysteries: the Erebus crash (Air NZ); President Kennedy's assassination; Marilyn Monroe's suicide.
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- Information literacy - identifying fact and opinion, making judgements about the quality of information, assessing the reliability of different sources of information such as websites.
| - Racism and conflict: Australia's lost generation; the Bastion Point protest.
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- Communication skills - communicating effectively in a variety of formats: for example in small group and full class discussions; written work; visual formats.
| - Culture in crisis: protest movements in NZ - the Vietnam war, The Dawn Raids, the Hikoi; teen culture and moral outrage.
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Year Levels/Departments:
History, Seniors
Resources Required
1B5 or 1B8 Exercise Book