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WORK SCHEDULE/ PACE SETTER FOR GRADE 9:

Indication of Essays and Source-based questions with writing of paragraphs per theme

2014

SUBJECT: SOCIAL SCIENCES ~ HISTORY

Week / Content / Assessment
Informal/ Formal / Completed
(Date) / Resources
15.01 – 31.01 / World War ll
• The rise of Nazi Germany (5 hours)
End of World War 1, Weimar Republic; Treaty of Versailles1919 and brief summary of German punishments
Hitler and the Nazis 1920s
The Great Depression of 1929 and effects on Germany
Failure of democracy in the Weimar Republic
Reasons for public support for Nazi Party and the 1932 and 1933 elections
Enabling Act 1933 and dictatorship (including concentration camps for opponents)
Nuremberg Laws and loss of basic rights of Jewish people 1935
Essay: Discuss how Hitler persecuted political opponents and other nations.
-Persecution of political opponents: Jehovah’s Witnesses; Roma (gypsies); homosexuals; Slavs ; black people; disabled people
Nazi Germany as an example of a fascist state (compared with democracy) / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph and Essay question.
03.02 – 28.02 / • World War 2 (5 hours)
Nazi’s aggressive, expansionist foreign policy for lebensraum (very briefly)
Outbreak of World War ll : Axis vs. Allies
Essay: Describes how the Jews’ human rights were violated by the extermination camps and genocide, the Holocaust and the Final Solution.
-Extermination camps and genocide, the Holocaust, and the “Final Solution”
Examples of resistance to Nazism in Germany
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Confessing Church
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
End of World War ll / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph and Essay question.
Week / Content / Assessment
Informal/ Formal / Completed
(Date) / Resources
03.03 – 14.03 / • World War ll in the Pacific (2 hours)
America in the war vs. Japan; Pearl Harbour
Japanese Americans forcibly moved into internment camps in USA
Japanese expansion and atrocities in China
Japanese prisoner -of –war camps for Allied soldiers / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph
17.03 – 28.03 / • Revision, assessment (formal and informal) and feedback should be done on an on-going basis / Formal Assessment:
Source based and paragraph writing, Focus essay

TERM 2

Week / Content / Assessment
Informal/ Formal / Completed
(Date) / Resources
07.04 – 17.04 / Nuclear Age and the cold War
• Increasing tension between the Allies after the end of World War ll in Europe (2 hours)
USSR (communism) vs. USA and West (capitalism) / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph
22.04 – 25.04 / • End of World War ll in the Pacific: Atomic bombs and the beginning of the Nuclear Age (2 hours)
Essay: Describe how the Second World War came to an end in the Pacific?
-When, where, why and how did World War ll come to a end
Why did the USA drop the bombs
Was it justified / Class Test
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph and Essay question.
29.04 – 30.04 / • Definition of the superpowers and the meaning of “Cold War”
(1 hour) / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph
05.05 – 30.05 / Areas of conflict and competition between the Superpowers in the Cold War (6 hours)
Arms race
Space race
Essay: Describe how the division of Germany in 1946 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 damaged East-West relations.
-Division of Germany 1946 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph and Essay question.
02. 06 – 13.06 / The end of the Cold War 1989 (1 hour)
The fall of the Berlin Wall 1989
The fall of the Soviet Union (very briefly) 1991 / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph
Hand out papers for Oral History Research project
17.06 – 27.06 / • Revision, assessment (formal and informal) and feedback should be done on an on-going basis / Formal:Mid-year examinations:
Source based and paragraph writing, Focus essay
(Content in Term 1 and 2)

TERM 3

Week / Content / Assessment
Informal/ Formal / Completed
(Date) / Resources
21.07 – 25.07 / Turning points in modern South African history since 1948
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights after World War ll (1 hour) / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph
28.07 – 22.08 / • Definition of racism (2 hours)
Human evolution and our common ancestry*
Apartheid and the myth of “race” / Class Test:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph
25.08 – 12.09 / • 1948 National Party and Apartheid (4 hours)
Racial segregation before Apartheid
Main apartheid laws in broad outline
Essay: Discuss how the Group Areas Act of 1950 forced people from their birthplaces with special reference to Sophiatown.
-Group Areas Act: Sophiatown forced removal
CASE study: Bantustans: Forced removal : People of Mogopa to Bophuthatswana / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph and Essay question.
Case study
15.09 – 26.09 / 1950’s : Repression and non-violent resistance to apartheid
(4 hours)
SACP banned
ANC programme of action
Brief biography : Albert Luthuli, his role in the ANC and resistance to apartheid
The Defiance Campaign (including the influence of Mahatma Gandhi)
Essay: Describe how the adoption of the Freedom Charter in 1955 as a document laid the foundation for a future democratic South Africa.
-Freedom Charter and Treason Trial
Women’s March
Brief biographies:Helen Joseph and Lillian Ngoyi and their roles in resistance to apartheid / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph and Essay question.
29.09 – 03.10 / • Revision, assessment (formal and informal) and feedback should be done on an on-going basis
Oral history Research project (2 hours) / Formal assessment;
Oral history Research project

TERM 4

Week / Content / Assessment
Informal/ Formal / Completed
(Date) / Resources
13.10 – 24.10 / Turning points in SA history 1960, 1976 and 1990
Essay: Discuss the effects of the Sharpeville massacre and the Langa-march of 1960.
-1960: Sharpeville massacre and Langa march (5 hours)
Formation of PAC 1959
Cause, leaders, events, short-term and longer-term consequences / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph and Essay question.
27.10 – 07.11 / • 1976: Soweto uprising (5 hours)
Causes, leaders, events of 16 June , spiralling events that followed throughout the country, longer-term consequences for resistance and repression / Source-based questions with writing of paragraph Class test
10.11 – 28.11 / • 1990: Release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of liberation movements (2 hours)
Essay: Describe the events leading up to the 1994 election.
Events leading to 1994 election (in broad outline)
Internal resistance and repression in 1980’s
External pressure on the apartheid regime 1980’s
End of Cold War 1990
Unbanning of political movements 1990
Release of Mandela and other political prisoners 1990
Negotiations and violence 1990 – 1994
Democratic election 1994 / Informal assessment:
Source-based questions with writing of paragraph and Essay question.
01.12 – 12.12 / • Revision, assessment (formal and informal) and feedback should be done on an on-going basis / Formal assessment:
Final examination
Source based and paragraph writing, Focus essay
(Content from Term 1 – 4)

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