History at Huntly

Still struggling with your Extended Response?

In response to some concerns expressed by some pupils today, here is some more help for you on how to do the Extended Response. There is a lot of help already on this website and both Mr Parker and myself have been available to help you over the last few weeks.

Download S4 Extended Essay advice V2

Remember, this should reflect your best work and you should have been researching your topic over the last few weeks. If you haven't then I suggest you put your social life (i.e. Facebook) on hold and dedicate more time to it as it can make the difference between a C and an A. Nagging over - now get on with it!

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!

Essay plan and example for Free at Last topic

Here is the essay help sheet Mr Parker has been using lately in his class. 

S5/S6 Int2 Prelim help sheet

Please click on the link to read a short help sheet to focus your revision for the prelim. Much help is already on this website - so use it!

Good luck.

Download Some S5-S6 Int2 History Revision Help

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

Snow closure work for S4 Pupils

Happy New Year!

 

Just in case this cold spell and snow showers continue, here is some work to keep you up to date.

 

You should be working through the Free at Last Questions, so if you can, work through as many as you can.

If you can find past paper questions to do, then do as many as you can.

Here is a website worth spending time with:

 

You need to start thinking about the Extended Response, so here is the help sheet to help you get started:

 

Download Extended Response

 

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

A podcast to help produce the perfect 'How Useful' answer.

Click on the link to open up the podcast. Mr Davidson's class should have a copy of this answer in their jotters but I thought it would be useful to have it as a podcast as well. See if you can identify the different parts of a 'how useful' question: the opening sentence, the origin, the purpose, the content and recall.  See me with any problems with the podcast.

Download How useful FatL Int2

Extended Response first draft marking criteria

When you get your first draft back all marked by me, you will get a copy of an SQA grid that I use to judge the grade. It will show how I allocated the marks. To understand the criteria used click on the link below. It is well worth looking at this to see how to get an A grade.

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