Freaking out just a little bit...

[lishee]

OK, I've been studying my little butt off for History Revs the past two weeks, memorising dates, events, people and all that jazz.  I thought I had everything covered...until I came here.

Historian quotes???  My teacher NEVER mentioned anything about historian quotes and views on the exam.  I'm freaking out, just a little bit here...I'm really aiming to get a good exam mark (Unit 3 SACs were 86/100 = high A and Unit 4 SACs were 79/100 = low A) to bring up my SAC marks, and hopefully to get a high 30's SS.

Do you guys have any quick hints and tips for historians I should research and memorise?  I'm doing the French and Russian Revolutions, if thats any help...thank you so much in advance

[mypurpleundercracka]

u definantely gotta have historian quotes and perspectives to contrast and rebuttal, just remember a few especially for French and Russian AOS 2 where in the exam it will ask you something like "in your response refer to different views of the revolution"

for French probably best to get 1 or 2 each from Doyle, Furet and Soboul and for Russian go for Pipes, Hasegawa, Fitzpartick

[spontaneouscombustion]

historiography has also been a real problem for me...moshi, can I please have a copy of your notes too?

[lishee]

Thank you guys - like I said, my teacher hasn't been the best, it may be because it is her first year teaching VCE...but I dunno.  She hasn't provided us with any knowledge of having to use historian quotes in our exam at all.  Her idea of teaching us the Russian Revolution is giving us a photocopied handout full of questions and information, and telling us to answer the 30-odd questions in a double period...no explanations, nada.  *sigh*

Oh, and we spent far too long on the French Revolution, to the point where the entire Russian Revolution was done in about five weeks, with the two SACS on the two different area of studies a week and a half apart.  Some major cram studying is definitely needed I think.

I feel for the poor year 11 kids doing Revs next year, as she is still teaching it.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Thank you guys - like I said, my teacher hasn't been the best, it may be because it is her first year teaching VCE...but I dunno.  She hasn't provided us with any knowledge of having to use historian quotes in our exam at all.  Her idea of teaching us the Russian Revolution is giving us a photocopied handout full of questions and information, and telling us to answer the 30-odd questions in a double period...no explanations, nada.  *sigh*

Oh, and we spent far too long on the French Revolution, to the point where the entire Russian Revolution was done in about five weeks, with the two SACS on the two different area of studies a week and a half apart.  Some major cram studying is definitely needed I think.

I feel for the poor year 11 kids doing Revs next year, as she is still teaching it.

I empathize with you completely. This is our teacher's first year teaching history too (she's my English teacher as well and she's not very good with that either) Our teacher never explained how to write the exam responses and we had to work everything out for ourselves. Likewise in class it was just, 'open your textbook to page 31 and read to 33, then complete the questions and that's it. No discussion permitted, and definitely no help from the teacher provided'. "Revision sessions" were a blur and just made things more unclear for us.

I think I've sort of become bitter towards her and the VCE system as a result of this. When I hear and see people on this forum or elsewhere say 'My teacher this year is Adcock/Malone/Morgan', I literally turn green with envy.

[lishee]

Thank you guys - like I said, my teacher hasn't been the best, it may be because it is her first year teaching VCE...but I dunno.  She hasn't provided us with any knowledge of having to use historian quotes in our exam at all.  Her idea of teaching us the Russian Revolution is giving us a photocopied handout full of questions and information, and telling us to answer the 30-odd questions in a double period...no explanations, nada.  *sigh*

Oh, and we spent far too long on the French Revolution, to the point where the entire Russian Revolution was done in about five weeks, with the two SACS on the two different area of studies a week and a half apart.  Some major cram studying is definitely needed I think.

I feel for the poor year 11 kids doing Revs next year, as she is still teaching it.

I empathize with you completely. This is our teacher's first year teaching history too (she's my English teacher as well and she's not very good with that either) Our teacher never explained how to write the exam responses and we had to work everything out for ourselves. Likewise in class it was just, 'open your textbook to page 31 and read to 33, then complete the questions and that's it. No discussion permitted, and definitely no help from the teacher provided'. "Revision sessions" were a blur and just made things more unclear for us.

I think I've sort of become bitter towards her and the VCE system as a result of this. When I hear and see people on this forum or elsewhere say 'My teacher this year is Adcock/Malone/Morgan', I literally turn green with envy.

The really sad thing is, first year teacher shouldn't even be an excuse!  My Theatre Studies teacher is fresh out of uni, and she is AMAZING.  She walked us through exam questions months before the exam...heck, the play we saw for Theatre Studies ('Realism', set in Communist Russia circ 1930's) taught me more about the Revolution than my teacher!  I don't know what my school was thinking.  It sucks that you had her for English too.  Grr, it just makes me so angry, and now my entire class is freaking out.  She just made us watching boring documentries all the time so she wouldn't have to teach us the coursework herself - so so so lazy!

[janie]

thats it ! post after post has been about my teacher sucks and cant teach..... i sympathise with you entirely

so fitting we are studying revolutions i call (joking) for a revolution against the teachers lol


anyone with me hehehe

[lishee]

Haha I agree with you Janie I've been alerting my mates in my class about the quotes thingy, we're all freaking out   Oh well.  As long as we have knowledge of the revolutions, we've done our best