TRANSITION YEAR PROGRAMME 2011 – 2012
HISTORY
Transition Year History builds on the interest and enthusiasm for History acquired at Junior Cert level. The History class encourages debate, discussion and the development of personal views.
Students are encouraged to enjoy analysing source documents and cartoons and to discuss different interpretations of them. Students are also encouraged to
produce a project on their family tree or an oral History interview.
Transition Year students have the opportunity to undertake an individual research project of their choice. This will involve locating sources, research, collecting data and learning the skills of editing. IN 2010 the school was placed first and second in the Wexford Historical society local history project competition.(no comp in 2011)
Students are also encouraged to produce a
project on their family tree or an oral history interview.
Essay writing skills will also be developed during the year.
During the year students will have the opportunity to study a selection of the following modules:
1.
An Explanation of the Leaving Cert Syllabus:
Document study, the research study and other modules,
why study history, the work of the historian, a visit to the library.
2.
An Introduction to the Study of Documents
-a study of 19th century Ireland using facsimile
documents, cartoons, photographs, drawing, newspapers
and primary source evidence.
3. Local History,
- Viking Wexford
- Norman Wexford
- Cromwell in Wexford
- 1798 in Wexford
- The Twin Churches
- 1916 Rising in Enniscorthy
4. Women in Irish History
-The suffragettes and the campaign for the vote of women
-The role of Women in the labour and nationalist
movements. The Women of 1916.
5. The Principles of Genealogy
- How to research a family tree
- Vital records
- Oral history, use of interviews.
Project-Interview with an elderly person.
6. An Introduction to European History – World War 1
- Irish involvement in W.W.1
- Battle of the Somme, using documentary evidence.
- New weapons, new styles of warfare
- Effect on civilian populations.
7.
An Introduction to American History 1945-1989:
- Racial conflict
- Rosa Parks
- Martin Luther King
- Montgomery bus Boycott
- 1969 Moon Landings
- Vietnam War
8.
History through Film
- Political, military and social events.
-using a selection of films on Irish, European, American Events
9 Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
- Nazi Persecution of the Jews
- Europe during the Holocaust
- Personal Stories(Hopefully a visit by a Holocaust Survivor)
- Special Topics
- Kristallnacht, Kindertransports, The Madagascar Plan, Wansee Conference
Assesment:
Both Summer and Christmas exams 50% on written Test (see History Folder) and 50 % on pre submitted project.
Transition Year students are encouraged to read as widely as ossible round the course, and to get information from as wide a range of sources as possible i.e. the internet, libraries, T.V.,
films, documentaries, newspapers and primary sources where possible.
Lively discussions are common in the class and students are encouraged above all to enjoy History.