? starter activity

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? starter activity
What have these men got to do with Year 13
History?
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What will I be studying this year?
? Aims

• To find out what I will be studying for A2
  History
• To identify the main reasons for the outbreak of
  Cold War

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? Your task
What will I need to do to be successful at A2
level history? Make a list of ideas, share your
ideas with your partner and add any new
suggestions to your list. How many of these
things did you do throughout the AS course?
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Be disciplined

• Keep well-organised notes
• Be prepared to do much of threading for lessons
  outside the class
• As you move ever close to undergraduate work, be
  prepared to go that extra mile and use resources
  in the department, school or local public
  libraries
• Look out for relevant news items or documentaries
  that discuss the Cold War and its aftermath,
  editorials in The Washington Post, The Economist
  and The Spectator are good sources of
  international news and debate
• Use the new departmental website
  www.studyhistory.co.uk to download class
  resources and sample students work
• Visit museums (Imperial War Museum, which has an
  excellent Cold War section, the Science Museum
  good on the Space Race)
• Meet homework deadlines students who regularly
  fail to do so will be put on subject report

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Keep your folders organised!

• It will help you to keep the following documents
  in the front of your folders
• a glossary of keywords that you come across
  during the course.
• a whos who of key figures
• a map of key events of the Cold War
• a timeline of key events

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What will I be studying?

• Post-war tensions
• Yalta Potsdam
• The Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall
• The nuclear arms race
• The space race
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Clash of superpower ideologies
• Cold War in Europe
• Collapse of Communism

Click to view the premier of Mr Higgins Cold War
movie
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How will I be examined?

• A2 50 of total marks
• Unit 3 A World Divided Superpower Relations,
  1944-90
• Unit 4 Controlled assessment (India)
• Written exam 2 hours
• Answer ONE question from Section A (30 marks),
  and ONE from Section B (40 marks) - choice of 2
  questions in both sections

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Example paper

• Look at the example of a past paper. With your
  partner write some tips for fellow students on
  how to ensure exam success with this paper.
• As well as standard essay-style questions you
  will be asked to discuss an historical
  interpretation of a Cold War event in the light
  of secondary sources.
• The examiner is assessing your historiographical
  and synoptic skills and your the key difference
  at A2!

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Units Maximum A B C D E
3 100 80 70 60 50 40
Grade boundaries
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? Your task

• What was the Cold War? How was it different from
  a hot war? Read Edwards, The USA and the Cold
  War, p.3-7 and create a mind map charting the
  characteristics of the Cold War
• Hints think about these areas ideologies,
  military, foreign policy, trade economics,
  propaganda, espionage space exploration

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? Extension task

• Use some of the weblinks on your course guide to
  explore other evidence of the characteristics of
  the Cold War. Cut and paste images onto your mind
  map.

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? Plenary

• How will you be examined for Unit 3
• What tips would you give to anyone starting this
  unit?
• How will you develop your study skills this year
  as you move closer to university level studies