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Examining sources · Part 1 of 3
6 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 7 quick multi-choice questions — every question on this part of the standard, grouped by the 2 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one. That comparison is where the learning happens.
Describe the three historical skills involved in examining a set of sources, and describe the five concepts a source set is read for.
Explain in depth why a reader who understands a set of sources accurately may still not have examined them, and what specifically has to change.
Comprehensively examine why knowing the general subject of a source set helps a reader much less than it appears to, and what preparation genuinely improves source analysis.
Using at least TWO sources from the Waipuna set, explain why women's candidacy for the Waipuna Borough Council was disputed. (All sources are invented for this site.)
Using at least TWO sources, examine in depth what the Waipuna sources show about why the dispute lasted as long as it did.
Comprehensively examine what the Waipuna source set can and cannot establish about the change in women's role in the borough, and raise the questions a historian would investigate further.