Choose a protest movement. Check its suitability with your teacher.

Conduct preliminary reading about your topic in order to help you to identify sources of relevant evidence and to develop feasible focusing questions.

Identify at least six potentially useful sources from which you could gather evidence about the historical event. Your sources must provide you with a balanced coverage of the inquiry and enable the focusing questions to be answered with comprehensive breadth and depth. State what kind of evidence you expect to find from each source.

With your teacher’s guidance, develop three focusing questions that provide a pathway for your inquiry into the protest movement.

Make a research plan that includes a list of actions to be carried out through to completion of this inquiry.

Select sufficient evidence about your protest to provide balanced coverage of the inquiry and enable the focusing questions to be answered.

Indicate specifically which evidence is relevant, for example by highlighting or underlining text or using lines in the margins, or by using annotations.

Write perceptive annotations

Organise your evidence.

Record all source details.

Write a perceptive evaluation of your research process. You could comment on matters such as:

• evaluating strengths and weaknesses and/or successes and difficulties in the inquiry process

• comparing the usefulness of sources

• discussing the reliability or otherwise of particular sources and pieces of evidence

• identifying issues that affected the inquiry process as a whole.

Choose a place of importance in your local community and an historical event that had a significant impact on that place.

Research your topic and ensure you capture the following;

• What happened

• When did it happen

• Where

• Why

• What were the causes

• What were the consequences

• What is the significance of the event/place

Produce content for a web page. On the web page you must:

• 1. Provide a comprehensive analysis of your chosen historical place or event. To do this you must:

  • a. Demonstrate a sound understanding of both primary and secondary evidence.

  • b. Include well-considered judgements, comments and conclusions about the evidence that are from an historian’s perspective.

  • c. Process your evidence so that it is presented through key historical ideas, with each idea being supported by comprehensive evidence.

Conclude your web page by analysing how and why the place and event is, or was, significant to New Zealanders, at the time of the event and/or since.

To make it realistic, your web page should include illustrations and other supporting material such as maps, photographs, letters, statistics and audio or video interviews.

Note, however, that the format and style of your website will not form part of the assessment judgement made.