History Revs – Online LessonUnit 4 Sac 1 preparation14 August 2014

Aims

Go over what you have to do in the SAC

Discuss how you can prepare for the SAC

Go over the steps involved in formulating answers to ‘c’ and ‘d’ questions before you start writing

Look at how to identify historiography in texts

SAC details

This SAC consists of an analysis of two historical representations. It has been designed to meet outcome 1 of the Unit 4 History Revolutions course.

General SAC Information:

Date: The SAC must be completed on or before Friday 22nd August, 2014.

Time: 10 minutes reading time and 80 minutes writing time in one sitting. You will not be allowed to take notes during your allocated reading time.

Supervision: Students must be supervised for the duration of the reading and writing time.

Format:The SACs must be handwritten in the spaces provided (in pen) on the SAC question sheets, unless you have Special Consideration which has been pre-arranged.

Materials: You may bring in up to four sides of A4 paper of research notes during the supervised period, but not your DECV course book or text book

Bibliography: No in-text citations or bibliography are required for this SAC

Submission: Supervisors and students must sign the Authentication Form on page 6 of these instructions and send it with the cover sheet for this SAC.

SAC Task

Your Task:

This task will consist of TWO historical representations related to Area of Study One (1898-1949). They may be either primary or secondary sources. They may also be either visual or document representations.

You will NOT be asked to compare the two representations

For each representation, you will be asked two comprehension questions (‘a’ and ‘b’) and then two evaluation questions (‘c’ and ‘d’). The questions will be structured and weighted the same as for SAC #2 of Unit 3 History Revolutions.

You may answer in dot points for the ‘a’ and ‘b’ questions.

You must answer in complete sentences in the ‘c’ and ‘d’ questions.

In the ‘c’ question, you must first refer to the representation and then show knowledge of the event that is not referred to in the representation. This is the ‘explain why’ section of the task.

The ‘d’ question is the historiography question, where you will be expected to firstly refer to the representation and then refer to either other contemporary views or other historians’ perspectives.

You are to write your answers in the space provided. If necessary, you may complete answers on the two ‘overflow’ sheets at the end of the paper, but make sure you indicate this (for example, with an arrow →) and label the continuation clearly.

What should you do to prepare?

Do your weekly work

Make a timeline

Make an historian file

Make a leaders file or use the ‘Who’s who in the Chinese Revolution?’ in your text book, pp. 303-326.

Timeline example 1 - list

Timeline example 2 - annotated

Timeline example 3 - parallel

Historian file – example 1Writer/historian What happened at the Luding

BridgeSupporting evidence

Yang Chengwu 

A CCP assault party swept across the bridge and through a wall of flames that had been ignited by the GMD soldiers.

He was a CCP commander who was present on the day. Eye witness account. He was one of the Red Army commanders.

Edgar Snow 

The Red Army fought a heroic battle against the stronger GMD forces on the opposite bank.

This was based on an interview with Mao in Yanan after the event.

Chang and Halliday 

The Red Army did not fight a battle at the bridge, there were no GMD forces in the area.

Nationalist communications make no mention of any fighting on the bridge or in the town.

Sun Shuyun 

A battle was fought but it was only small scale, only one GMD squad on the opposite bank.

Interviewed Blacksmith Zhu who was there on the day.

Historian file – example 2

Historian file – example 3

Steps for Analysing a Source

Identification - What kind of source is it?

Attribution - Who created it?

Perspective Judgement - What is the viewpoint?

Relibaility Assessment -

How useful is it for

understanding the past?

For example . . .

Swiftly taking Luding Bridge (artist’s impression). A propaganda poster of the event, undated but probably from the late 1960’s or early 1970s. http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/ldb.html

How to approach a ‘c’ question

Analyse the source

How much do I know about the viewpoint presented in the source?

What other information

can I provide that supports or challenges the viewpoint in the source?

How to approach a ‘d’ question

Analyse the source

What is my interpretation of the source?

What other views are there

that support my

interpretation?

What other views are there that challenge

my interpretation?

How to identify historiography

Introductions

Conclusions

Sub-titles

Topic sentences

Why does Fenby think that the Qing dynasty collapsed?

Fenby, p. 213.

Why does Hsu think that the Qing dynasty failed?

Hsu, pp. 444-445

What is Fenby’s view about whether revolution was achieved in China by 1927?

Fenby, p. 213

Does Hsu think that the Nationalist government was successful or not by 1937?

Hsu, pp. 565-566.

What is Snow’s explanation for the CCP triumph over the GMD in 1949?

Snow, extract from ‘Epilogue’, p. 418.