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AC9HH8S06 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH8S06 | Year 8 History: Historical perspectives and interpretations

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor identify perspectives, attitudes and values of the past in sources
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Historical perspectives and interpretations

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration describing the values and attitudes revealed by a source such as an individual account, and using additional sources to show how they are broadly representative or contrast the values and attitudes of the society
  • • Elaboration identifying the perspective in a source and discussing the values and attitudes of the society that produced it; for example, explaining why historians have different interpretations, including access to source material, personal views and other contextual factors influencing the time in which the historian was working

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