An important announcement about our resources and assignments during Continuous Learning at EMS:

 To avoid confusion amongst either parents or students, all of the class resources and assignments will be loaded onto the Google classroom. I post a daily agenda which I normally complete before noon EVERY day which includes assignments for students as well as newly posted resources. Because I keep all of the resources, which include amazingly thorough revision guides, past papers, PowerPoints, writing exercises, and projects on folders on my desk tops at school and home, the amount of resources available to all students in all classes is so large that the students will have everything they need to successfully prepare them for the May Examinations simply by clicking onto their Google classrooms, which they can do instantaneously on their devices by using the Google Classroom. I would be delighted to give any parent who desires access to their daughter or son’s classroom an invite to do so and, as of this writing, most parents already have access to our Google Classrooms.

Best,

Gunnar

Instructor: Mr. Gunnar Stride, M.A., M.Sc.

Current Unit: World War I

Completed Units:

Curriculum Guide and Revision Guide for Mock Exam

Click on this link to check out what we will be study in Year 10 IGCSE History this year: 

Revision Guide for Mock Exam 

Link to Curriculum Map/proposed long term planning doc. 

Click on this link to check out our Curriculum Guide which will give you a fairly detailed idea of what we will be studying and when we will study it this year:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aDbzuB11jTYIUTGMIxe6M17QjfYl1QxFTFzIbXScFrE/edit#slide=id.g87e58f75dc_0_24 

*Note: this can and will change based upon the progress of each individual class.

The IGCSE Examination

The IGCSE Exam will consist of three examination papers whose time length is between 1- 2 hours in duration that will cover both the Core Content and Depth Studies listed above. The papers and their weighting are:

Paper 1-the 4, 6, and 10 point questions: 60 marks, 1 hour 45 minutes

Paper 2- the source paper: 50 marks, 2 hours. Year 11's questions for this paper will be from Core Content 5-How Effectively Did the United States Contain the Spread of Communism? 

Paper 4-the single long essay based upon 1 Depth Study question: 40 marks, 1 hour. 

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Textbooks

Year 10 students have been issued this book...

Additionally, students will also regularly work from these two texts as well...

Additionally, I have a very thorough personal library which we will use when needed so, in sum, students will have more than enough resources at their regular disposal to be successful in this course.

Grading and assessment weightings

90-100      A*

80-89        A

70-79        B

60-69        C

50-59        D

Below 50 E

Term 1

2 Examinations-40% of term grade

Classwork and short assessments-40% of term grade

Projects-20% of term grade

Term 2

2 Examinations-40% of term grade

Classwork and short assessments-40% of term grade

Projects-20% of term grade

Term 3

2 Examinations-40% of term grade

Classwork and short assessments-40% of term grade

Projects-20% of term grade