History / Year 10 / Historical Skills / Perspectives and interpretations

Curriculum content descriptions

Identify and analyse different historical interpretations (including their own) (ACHHS191)

Elaborations
  • examining different accounts of the first 1957 rock’n’roll tours of Australia and identifying the different perspectives based on age
  • explaining the enthusiasm of young people for the 1957 rock’n’roll tours of Australia and the opposition of older generations, as reflected in the sources
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Critical thinking,  Explanations (Factual texts),  Historiography

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