History at Huntly

S4 Essay Titles

Here is the list of essay titles I spoke about today, taken from previous SQA exams. You can use this to practice writing intorductions, conclusions and the outline of what could make up the main section.

Download Essay questions S3 S4 Sept 11

S3 Immigrants & Exiles - short class clips on the Irish

Click on the following links to view some useful and short class clips relevant to the Irish section of the course:

Irish Potato Famine

The Irish Famine

Irish Workers in Scotland

The Irish Labour Force in Scotland

Let me know if any link fails to open.

 

S3 Essay help powerpoint

A bit later than promised but here is the powerpoint I showed last week which gave advice on how to do an Int2 essay, (A big file, so be patirnt)

Download Intermediate 2 Essay Help

S3 snow closure work 20th December 2010

Good morning. As I mentioned last Wednesday, there was a threat of further snow closures so most of you (but not all for some reason) have your material home with you. You can work through Section D. But another task which I think might be a bit more interesting working at home, is to research a famous Scot abroad and write a short biography of that person. Here is an IT task I made a while back to get you going:  Download Scot-obituary

S4 History Help for the prelims (also helpful to S3)

To save you time here are some useful website to help with revision and past papers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/int/hist/immigrants/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/hist/wallaceandbruce/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/

Use the search facility in the BBC Learning Zone Class Clips to find more video clips.

 

Snow closure advice S4-S6

Well I don't know what the weather has been like for you over the last couple of days, but I am at home with 3 feet of snow and drifts up to 4 feet. In between power cuts and keeping access to my house and car clear I have been trying to put together some podcasts but with little success so far. I will try again today.

Best advice for S4-S6 classes is to get on with course work, Extended Essays/Dissertations and past papers. Please e-mail me first drafts if you have them. S4 pupils must get Free at Last completed very soon so do your best.

I'm off to clear the snow off my roof!

Mr Parker's snow closure message to his S2-S4 pupils

S4- Pupils in mr Parker’s class should look at the web links provided by mr Davidson. Primarily, Intermediate 2 pupils should be researching and preparing an answer to their chosen extended response question. ALL Int 2 pupils should have an idea of which title they would like to use by their return. Int 1 pupils should check out Free At Last? Web links to gain an insight into what comes next. Good luck!

PS here’s two direct links, that are on the website, if you’re feeling lazy;

http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/files_ccc/08miHistoryInt2ExtResp.pdf

 http://thegordonschools.typepad.co.uk/files/q-non-violent-plan-2.doc

 S3- pupils should be revising for their Immigrants and Exiles NAB. Mr Davidson has put links and podcasts up to help. Please use them. All pupils MUST have some idea of how to answer a “how useful…”, “describe” and “explain” question. This is important stuff, so while you have the time learn it!

 S2- pupils should check out our web links on Mary Queen of Scots and other sites that describe her. This is the next topic we’ll look at. Best wishes.

 

A Parker

Snow closure work for S3 History pupils

Happy New Year S3!

I thought I would give you some suggestions for doing some History so we don’t fall behind during this cold spell.

We are about to start studying the Scottish Wars of Independence. This is the story of how Scotland fought long and hard to maintain its independence. It starts with a crisis; it introduces you to key historical figures such as Edward I, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce; it also has important battles such Stirling Bridge and Bannockburn.

What you could do at present, when stuck at home, is to get a general overview of the whole story by looking at the following websites:

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scotlandshistory/warsofindependence/index.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scotland_united/alexander_iii_dies/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/scotland/learning/learningzone/queryengine?ContentType=text/html;charset=utf-8;attrib_4=SearchText;oper_4=eq;val_4_1=Wars%20of%20Independence;config=results_pre;pagesize=12;SuppressCaching=1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/hist/wallaceandbruce/

You could simply Google ‘Scottish Wars of Independence’ and discover more.

The History at Huntly website has information and some examples of work, so have a look at that.

If you want, you could watch ‘Braveheart’, but be warned it has historical errors and we will go through the movie in class later.

See you all soon hopefully,

Mr Davidson

Famous Scots Abroad PowerPoints

Please find below some of the powepoints from Mr Parker's class on famous Scots abroad.

Download Allan Pinkerton (pinkii)

Download David Livingston

Download John muir power point

Download Mary Slesser by ryan and charlie who are the greatewst evr

Famous Scots Abroad IT sheet

Here is the sheet you will need for Wednesday's IT Famous Scots Abroad research. Once completed, e-mail to me at [email protected]. Remember an obituary is the summing up of key moments and acievements in someone's life.

Enjoy.