AC9HH10S07 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor analyse different and contested historical interpretations

Elaborations

• • Elaboration exploring debates about the historical period or topic studied, such as the “Brisbane Line”, “reds under the bed” and McCarthyism
• • Elaboration identifying different interpretations and constructing an argument about which interpretation has the evidence to support it
• • Elaboration analysing how historians have changed the way they interpret the event under investigation over time, such as a change in view with the discovery of more sources
• • Elaboration constructing a historical argument that identifies different possibilities in interpretation, organising ideas to build an argument, presents a particular point of view with consistent reference to the evidence available, and uses evaluative language