Welcome to Year 11 IGCSE History for school year 2024-2025!
An important announcement about our resources and assignments during Continuous Learning at EMS. To avoid confusion on either parent’s or student’s ends, 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
This is who we are...
Teacher: Mr. Gunnar Stride, M.A., M.Sc.
Congratulations to our Year 11 Historians of the Year Rita Kazakevich and and our three Year 10 Historians of the Year Noor Al Thani, Muhamad Ali Cil, and Yael Ezekiel Carig, our Year 11 Class Creators of the Year Aesha Alessandra Balut and Maryam Shareef and Year 10's Class Creator of the year Noor Al Thani, and to our Most Improved Students, Year 11's and Year 10's Adrielle Ortiz .
This is who and what we are in studying in Cambridge IGCSE History as dictated by the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum:
Core content studies:
Were the peace studies of 1919-23 fair? Completed
To what extent was the League of Nations a success? Completed
Why had international peace collapsed by 1939? Completed (This will be the subject of our Paper 2-source paper)
- Who was to blame for the Cold War?
How effectively did the U.S.A. contain the spread of communism? (the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the war in Vietnam)
How secure was the U.S.S.R.'s control over Eastern Europe?)
Depth studies:
The First World War I, 1914-1918 Completed (This will be the subject for our Paper 4 Exam as well as 33% of our Paper 1).
Year 11 will be given the option of doing independent study for their second Depth Study and can choose between Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905-1941, or the United States, 1919-1941.
Upcoming tests, projects, and units (students will always be given a minimum of one full calendar week's notice before all tests and projects):
Our first project and test will be given at the completion of our current unit on the Cold War.
Curriculum Guide Link, which will give you a fairly detailed idea of what we will study this year and when we will study it:
docs.google.com/presentation/d/13lQDi3YGz0jxMpRvpw3zktaZLYSy-W4_oSTJIGrcW_s/edit#slide=id.g87e58f75dc_0_24 Revision Guide link for Mock Exams:
Curriculum Map link for mid and long term planning:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hl0EeF566oCc7jYHsklMJ6R3VDUJlvqS3On4_h2otc/edit
The Texts
There are three major textbooks used in IGCSE History.
(1) Twentieth Century History - the major source for lessons - a hefty book filled with detail.
(2) World History - a book filled with excellent summaries!
(3) The Cambridge IGCSE 20th Century Source Book which is an excellent resource with primary and secondary written resources, photographs, maps, and political cartoons.
(4) I, and the Department, have an excellent library of supporting texts that will be used periodically which will allow students to dig deeper into and go beyond the Cambridge IGCSE History Curriculum.
There are four lessons per week in Year 11. There will be homework on two occasions a week. Homework will always be relevant to work completed in class on the day the homework is awarded. Students will normally have a couple of days grace to complete homework.
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, 2 hours
Paper 2- the source paper: 50 marks, 2 hours. Year 11's questions for this paper will be from Core Content 3-Why Did International Peace Break Down in 1939?
Paper 4-the single long essay based upon 1 Depth Study question: 40 marks, 1 hour.