Durham Cathedral: structuring your answer to the historic environment question
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can understand ways to approach the 16-mark historic environment question.
Key learning points
- The question will ask about either change, continuity, cause or consequence.
- Arguments about change, continuity, cause or consequence should be backed up with relevant evidence.
- The question will provide one factor to consider, to which you should add two more alternatives.
- Planning your answer helps to achieve a sustained judgement.
- It is always important to use specific knowledge about your historic environment in your answer.
Keywords
Second order concepts - ways in which questions about history are shaped
Continuity - when something continues without changing
Causation - why something happens, what its causes are
Consequence - the results or impacts of something
Common misconception
Students commonly do not provide enough detail from their historic environment in their answers.
Students should back up their analysis of the question with specific facts and details from their historic environment.
Teacher tip
To help students understand how the historic environment question works, give them the task of coming up with historic environment questions of their own, which they could then swap with a partner and answer.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.A direct or first-hand piece of evidence from the past is known as a source.
Q2.What are two limitations of Domesday Book as a historical source for Norman England?
Q3.The most famous visual source for Norman England is ...
Q4.Which Norman priest wrote 'Gesta Guillelmi’ in the 1070s?
Q5.A limitation of 'the Gesta' is it is - it does not consider the English perspective on the invasion at all.
Q6.Material Norman sources such as castles and cathedrals are often built in the architectural style, which looked back to the architecture of ancient Rome.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the term to the correct definition.
ways in which questions about history are shaped
when something continues without changing
why something happens, what its causes are
the results or impacts of something
Q2.To be convincing, historians need to use to back up their claims.
Q3.When discussing a historical topic, what type of argument do historians use if they disagree with another historian’s interpretation?
Q4.In the 16-mark historical environment question, which of the following will you be asked to use in your answer?
Q5.At the end of the 16-mark question, you need to remember to make an overall ...
Q6.The best answers will the judgement throughout the 16-mark answer, which means keep it going throughout your answer.
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