Notes

Syllabus:
They are the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte,
European Colonial Expansion (i.e. Voyages of Discovery)
the American Revolution.
Question types:
They are matching, data-based, picture understanding, the application of thinking hats for explaining causes and/or effects of events in history.

The French Revolution and Napoleon: Why and how the Revolution started, how and why the different stages of the Revolution developed in the way they were, what ideals the Revolution and Napoleon preached, how the different stages of the Revolution and Napoleon lived out those ideals. As well, how the notion of nationalism and liberalism might be applied to different circumstances of the Revolution as a whole.

European Colonial Expansions: All sorts of reasons why there were the voyages of discovery in the first place, their consequences, and in particular, how different people, for instance, traders and merchants, seafarers and mariners, and missionaries, came to explain the motives of Europeans exploring different parts of the world, such as the notion of ‘the white man’s burden’ and the phenomenon of the slave trade.

The American Revolution: Reasons for the Revolution, such as how the British treated the American colonists, and key aspects of the development of the Revolution and the key features of the American Constitution

be able to support arguments (i.e. your theories on things) by using the sources and data given to you (i.e. your evidence)
be able to show use of evidence (e.g. by stating ‘according to Source A, “... .” )
be able to build causal relationships between historical incidents (e.g. I believe Y was a result of X because ... )
be able to make inferences based on logical thinking (an inference means some conclusion you come to due to some information you have seen or read; for example, on seeing a big foot print in the sand, my inference is that there has been a big animal around the area. The "big animal" is my inference.)
be able to arrange historical incidents in the time sequence they happened
be able to compare (to draw out similarities) and contrast (to draw out differences) various data according to the subject matter
be able to define historical concepts (i.e. breaking a concept down into small component parts)
be able to use thinking hats to arrange and process data and own knowledge in the head