Work sample Year 10 History: Second World War

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 10 History. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation of student work and may contain errors such as spelling mistakes and other inaccuracies. In this work sample students: • explain the causes and effects of events, developments, turning points or movements in 20th-century Australia and internationally, leading up to and through World War II, and the post-war world • develop and modify a range of questions about the past to inform historical inquiry • locate, select and compare a range of primary and secondary sources and synthesise the information in sources to use as evidence in historical inquiry • sequence events and developments to analyse cause and effect, and patterns of continuity and change, connected to a period, event or movement • evaluate perspectives of significant events and developments, and explain the important factors that influence these perspectives • use historical knowledge, concepts and terms to develop descriptions, explanations and historical arguments that synthesise evidence from sources.