American Revolution anyone?

[Bing 101]

Who is doing the American Revolution other than me  :laugh:
This board is so full of the the three so really, is there anyone on this board who is doing the American or has done it?

[au]

We're doing American and Russian

[Bing 101]

^ Likewise!

I was feeling a little out of it with everyone doing the French or Chinese. I think we're lucky in that American is rather 'straight forward'.

[werdna]

American and French.

So much reading to do.......... it doesn't get into my head on the first reading. I have to read these things like 3 times to really understand it.

[werdna]

I'm learning to love History - awesome subject! A break from all the other subjects because the content and the teacher are epic.

[Menang]

I'm learning to love History - awesome subject! A break from all the other subjects because the content and the teacher are epic.

If this was on facebook I'd like it a million times.

How did you find the reading in the end?

[werdna]

Hahhaa The reading has actually been fairly interesting! Yeah, it's definitely a lot to take in, but it's quite fascinating stuff (most of it).

[Menang]

Hahhaa The reading has actually been fairly interesting! Yeah, it's definitely a lot to take in, but it's quite fascinating stuff (most of it).

YAYNESS!
Good to hear you're liking it!

[Bing 101]

Menang, what would you say are the main keys in order to score 45+ in Revs?

[Menang]

Menang, what would you say are the main keys in order to score 45+ in Revs?

Oh God.
This is a really subjective question; but I'd say the main key to score 45+ in any subject would be the same: a lot of hard work, a bit of luck and some natural talent would help too.

But specifically for Revs, the two main things are knowledge and practice. Know your events back to front, and make sure you understand the significance of each and every event, leader and idea that contributed to revolutionary sentiment in whichever country you're doing. Practice applying this knowledge through practice responses, ideally once a week.

[Bing 101]

Thanks for that

And by applying the knowledge do you mean by doing the questions in the text book or looking for other more exam orientated questions? Past exam questions etc...

[Menang]

Thanks for that

And by applying the knowledge do you mean by doing the questions in the text book or looking for other more exam orientated questions? Past exam questions etc...

I've personally always done the exam-style questions.

I've attached an example of the first question I ever did (please, please bear in mind this was the start of Year 11 and you definitely want to be writing much better than that. I wasn't very good back then. :S). That's the "Summary Question (Social Structure)".

The second attachment (Flight to Varennes) is something I wrote later in the year. It was a practice response to Section A, Part 2 of the exam (where you deal with a graphic or extract).

The practice responses shouldn't be too long - about a page (these aren't the extended responses of Section B, Part 2) and by the end of the year should take you about 10 minutes to do.

[werdna]

How's everyone going in Revolutions? I've got a research report SAC soon!

[Bing 101]

Likewise, we get about 6 pages of info to take into class then get 90 minutes to write it all up :/ I'm slightly nervous about this one :/