Hornsby Girls High School

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Mandatory history Years 7 to 10

Year 7

Term 1 - Introducing History

  • A study of the methodology of the historian
  • A study of the work of the archaeologist/anthropologist
  • The terminology of history
  • The historian's use of sources, primary/secondary

Term 2 - Ancient Societies

  • "Entombed"
  • Ancient China

Term 3 - Ancient Societies

  • Egypt

Term 4 - Indigenous peoples - colonisation and contact

  • The Meso Americans Aztecs, Mayas, Incas

Year 8

Term 1 - Ancient Societies

  • Ancient Greece
  • The world of Socrates

Term 2 - Indigenous peoples - colonisation and contact

  • Plains Indians / Australian Aborigines

Term 3 - Medieval history

  • "Devils, Drugs and Doctors"
  • A History of Medicine

Term 4 - Renaissance / Reformation

  • Highlighting Tudor England

Year 9

Term 1 - Australian social and political life to 1914

  • Federation
  • Living and working conditions
  • Suffrage and franchise
  • White Australia
  • Aboriginal experience

Term 2 - Australia and World War I

  • Gallipoli and the ANZAC legend
  • Homefront

Term 3 - Australia between the wars

  • Social change in the 1920s
  • The Depression
  • The Stolen Generation

Term 4 - Australia and World War II

  • The Defence of Australia
  • Homefront

Year 10

Term 1 - Post war Australia to 1970s

  • Citizenship and migrants, Aborigines
  • Anti-Communism and the Vietnam War
  • Women
  • Popular culture

Term 2 - Post war Australia social and political issues, 1970s-1990s

  • Relations with Asia
  • Multiculturalism
  • 1975 Constitutional Crisis
  • Feminism
  • Aboriginal Issues

Term 3 - Post war Australia social and political issues, 1970s-1990s continued

Contemporary Australia

  • Egalitarianism and diversity in Australian Society

Term 4 - Contemporary Australia

  • Towards reconciliation
  • Republicanism
  • Heritage and environmental issues