IB1 Hi SLHL

Christian Ohlsson

Katedralskolan Lund

 

 

 

 

Planning the entire course.

 

What will the course contain?

 

For your Diploma you will need to do 3 (Higher level) or 2 (Standard Level) history papers on your final exam. Believe it or not but the next two years are going to be spent trying to teach you how to gain the best possible mark on these papers.

You will also need to do an Internal Assesment, an historical investigation.

 

Paper One:                      Any one of the SUBSCRIBED SUBJECTS, these are 1) USSR & Stalin 1924-1941, 2) China 1946-1964 or 3) Cold War 60 –79.

                      The questions are source-based. Compare and contrast etc..

 

Paper Two:                       Two out of six areas concerning 20th Century History. We will do topic 3 Rise and rule of single party states and 5 Cold War. The reason for this is that they are easiest, the relate very good to paper one and we have good resources covering these topics at the school. These topics should try to cover two regions.

 

Paper Three:                      Only Higher Level Students should do this. We will do region Europe and Russia 1800 – 1995. Here we are recommended to pick 7 – 9 units out of the 21 available units.

 

Historical Investigation:                      

                      Should be done by both SL and HL students.

 

 

As you can see this is a lot, and the best and recommended way of doing this is to try to relate all the papers to each other. Students on the higher level will get a deeper knowledge on all the papers if we do it this way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planning of year 1 semester 1:

 

 

Week

Monday HL+SL

Tuesday HL

Thursday HL+SL

34

Break

Break

Introduction.

35

Russia

 

 

36sep

Russia

 

 

37

Russia

 

 

38

Russia

 

 

39

Russia

 

 

40

Russia

 

 

41 oct

Russia

 

 

42

Summary Russia

Pract IB essay answers.

HL German unification

43

HL German unification

HL German unification

HL German unification

44

Break

Break

Break

45 nov

The causes, course and effects of WW1

The causes, course and effects of WW1

The causes, course and effects of WW1

46

The causes, course and effects of WW1

Thematic Day WW1

The causes, course and effects of WW1

47

The causes, course and effects of WW1

The causes, course and effects of WW1

The causes, course and effects of WW1

48

Weimar Germany

Weimar Germany

Weimar Germany

49 dec

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

50

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

51

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

16 Weeks

Planning year 1 semester 2:

 

Week

Monday HL+SL

Tuesday HL

Thursday HL+SL

02 jan

?????

??????

??????

03

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

04

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

Hitler’s Germany.

05

Baby Exam

Summing up

Summing up

06 feb

Mussolini

Mussolini

Mussolini

07

Mussolini

Mussolini

Mussolini

08

Break

Break

Break

09

Mussolini

Mussolini

Mussolini

10 mar

China/WW2 not decided.

 

 

11

China

 

 

12

China

 

 

13

China

 

 

14 apr

China

 

 

15

Break

Break

Break

16

Break

China

 

17

China

 

 

18

China

 

 

19 may

Summing Up China

Summing Up China

Summing Up China

20

Extra Time + Mock Exams

Extra Time + Mock Exams

Extra Time + Mock Exams

21

Extra Time + Mock Exams

Extra Time + Mock Exams

Break

22

Extra Time + Mock Exams

Extra Time + Mock Exams

Extra Time + Mock Exams

23 jun

Extra Time + Mock Exams

Extra Time + Mock Exams

Extra Time + Mock Exams

Ca 16 weeks

Notes:

 

HL should do 7 – 9 Regional topics, 3 – 4 year 1 , 4 year 2.

The Core should be paper 2 topics, so year one we will do Topic 3 Rise and Rule, year two Topic 5.

 

How to combine this?

 

Year One.

Topic 3.

What to do on HL

How to get in Paper 1.

Rise and Rule of Communist Russia

Unit 13. Tsarist Russia to communist USSR.

Unit 14. Causes etc of First World War.

Unit 16. Stalinist Russia

1. USSR

Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

Cont Unit 14.

Cont Unit 16. Fascist Italy and Nazist Germany

Unit 15. Inter War years. (+ Unit 11 Americas Depression in US)

Skill-practise. Reading cartoons etc..

China

We will work with comparison between Stalinism and Maoism

2. Mao

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Two (very rough planning text in bold means taken directly from the curriculum, look in your IB folder page 14.).

Topic 5. (should be done thematic rather than chronological?)

What to do on HL

Unit 16, Stalinism

Unit 18. WW2

Unit 19. USSR 41-95

Unit  21 Eastern Europe 19-95

Unit 20?. Post War Western Europe.

 

I will also take a look on units from the region Americas:

Unit 16. Pol and ec dev in US 45-

Unit 17. US foreign policy

 

How to get in Paper 1.

All three will fit.

Origin of rivalry + Conferences

 

 

The Nature of the Cold War, changes in policies, arms race.

 

 

Development of Cold War.USSR Policies and US policies (East Europe and Containment)

 

 

End of Cold War.