Roaring Twentieth Century Essay Questions
Date: Friday June 15th 2012
Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
60 marks (37.5% of your GCSE grade)
Revision help * This guide and the guide you were given for your mock exam on the Roaring Twenties * Your exercise book * Textbook Unit 2 Twentieth Century Depth Studies isbn 978 1 4085 0321 8 * CGP revision guide (purchased last year) * Useful sites www.johndclare.net/ and www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history and www.schoolshistory.co.uk * Your teacher * Revision classes - Bitesize every Wednesday 1.40-2.00pm and every Friday 3.10-4.00pm in C22
What you are being tested upon
Section A
The Roaring Twenties * An inference question 4 marks * An ‘explain how’ question 6 marks * A usefulness …show more content…
The source might for example supply facts for historians who want to study a particular issue, tell historians something about the author, show historians about one political group or social grouping, or provide facts which illustrate some underlying issue you know about.
Summary
1. Briefly describe source and its content | 2. Look at provenance say why it’s useful and any limitations. Use own knowledge | 3. Look at content say why it’s useful and any limitations. Use own knowledge | 4. Conclusion - summarise usefulness of source |
REVISION TASKS Practising a usefulness question
Source X An American cartoon May 1921. Caption reads Uncle Sam’s quota. (this refers to the Emergency Quota Act) * How useful is this source to an historian studying attitudes towards immigration in the 1920’s? (10 marks)
Source K A cartoon from New York magazine in 1927. The cartoon shows a man in hospital about to have an operation but still worrying about his investments. * How useful is Source K to an historian studying attitudes towards the stock market in the USA in the 1920’s (10 marks)
Types of questions in Unit 2 Section B
You will be required to answer questions on two
Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
60 marks (37.5% of your GCSE grade)
Revision help * This guide and the guide you were given for your mock exam on the Roaring Twenties * Your exercise book * Textbook Unit 2 Twentieth Century Depth Studies isbn 978 1 4085 0321 8 * CGP revision guide (purchased last year) * Useful sites www.johndclare.net/ and www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history and www.schoolshistory.co.uk * Your teacher * Revision classes - Bitesize every Wednesday 1.40-2.00pm and every Friday 3.10-4.00pm in C22
What you are being tested upon
Section A
The Roaring Twenties * An inference question 4 marks * An ‘explain how’ question 6 marks * A usefulness …show more content…
The source might for example supply facts for historians who want to study a particular issue, tell historians something about the author, show historians about one political group or social grouping, or provide facts which illustrate some underlying issue you know about.
Summary
1. Briefly describe source and its content | 2. Look at provenance say why it’s useful and any limitations. Use own knowledge | 3. Look at content say why it’s useful and any limitations. Use own knowledge | 4. Conclusion - summarise usefulness of source |
REVISION TASKS Practising a usefulness question
Source X An American cartoon May 1921. Caption reads Uncle Sam’s quota. (this refers to the Emergency Quota Act) * How useful is this source to an historian studying attitudes towards immigration in the 1920’s? (10 marks)
Source K A cartoon from New York magazine in 1927. The cartoon shows a man in hospital about to have an operation but still worrying about his investments. * How useful is Source K to an historian studying attitudes towards the stock market in the USA in the 1920’s (10 marks)
Types of questions in Unit 2 Section B
You will be required to answer questions on two