Y9: Doing GCSE History…

Year 9A & Year 9B

Let’s investigate the option of taking GCSE History in Years 10 & 11… Below are three short video clips that give you information about GCSE History. Watch all 3 clips, even if you have already decided which subjects you will take next year.

In this video you will see How GCSE History can benefit you and also what the GCSE History course is about.

GCSE History. (1:58 minutes long)

Here is a short discussion, by Queen’s students, about the pro’s and con’s of taking GCSE History. (The voices have deliberately been “mickey-moused”…)

TAKE NOTE: Both positive and negative aspects are discussed, to give a balanced view on taking GCSE History…

What students say about GCSE History… (2:55 minutes long)

And finally… one last video to help you make up your mind. You do not want to miss this video clip!!

(PS: I have the Geography teacher’s permission to show you this video…)

Doing GCSE History. (4:10 minutes long)

-Please Take Note-

If Mrs Irvine takes the GCSE History Class the topics will be:

Year 10 topics:

1) Russia, 1905-1941 (We will look at Tsarist Russia, Lenin’s Russia, and Stalin’s Russia.)

2) The Treaty of Versailles (We will mainly focus on the Treaty of Versailles’ impact & fairness.)

Year 11 topics:

1) The League of Nations (We will look at what the League did in the 1920’s and in the 1930’s.)

2) The Road to War (We will look at all the things that Germany did in the 1930’s that eventually led to WW2.)

If Mr Chetty takes the GCSE History Class the topics will be:

Year 10 topics:

1) The United States, 1919-1941. (We will look at Economy & Society in the 1920’s, the Wall Street Crash, and The New Deal.)

2) The Treaty of Versailles. (We will mainly focus on the Treaty of Versailles’ impact & fairness.)

Year 11 topics:

1) The League of Nations. (We will look at what the League did in the 1920’s and in the 1930’s.)

2) The Road to War. (We will look at all the things that Germany did in the 1930’s that eventually led to WW2.)

3) The Cold War. (We will look at the origins of the Cold War, Containment, and Communist control over Eastern Europe.)

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