Monday 11 January 2010

EXAM TECHNIQUE


To do well in the exams you need to start your revision early as many of you are now discovering. But there are also lots of things you can do in the actual exam to ensure a good mark. This BBC web page has a lot of good tips. And you could always come to the lunchtime sessions on 'Tackling the Exam Paper'!

CONTROVERSY IN HISTORY


Those who do not study history often think it is simply learning facts. But history is a dialogue with the past. It is constantly being re-interpreted, sometimes with controversial results. Film director and history revisionist Oliver Stone is courting controversy once more with his TV history series that attempts to understand Hitler the man. Should we try to get to the ‘real’ person behind the myth or can this lead to becoming an apologist for mass murder?