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HISTORY

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WORKING WITH SOURCES
The point of convergence of history teaching in the National Curriculum Statement has shifted to in operation with sources. The aim is to make capable learners to extract, analyse and render evidence from sources, just like historians fare, and their own piece of chronicle. Emphasis is on history as a action rather than a product.

It is then imperative for learners to note that closely all the assessment in history is based forward sources and that this guide be inclined help them go through those skills in a certain manner. The guide will handle issues like as usefulness, relevance, reliability and predilection in sources. What are sources?

Sources are the unmanufactured material of history. These include erudition, documents, books, photographs, drawings and paintings, speeches, monuments, statues and buildings, tables and graphs, maps, poems, diaries, songs, etc. They be possible to be written, oral, visual and a single one other material that is useful to the historian to find historical evidence. Remember that historians frame a view of the past ~ means of using what has survived from the gone for gleaning of information/evidence.

Skills developed in in operation with sources
When learners work through sources in history, they go from one side an enquiry process which leads to acquiring the following clew skills:
• Analysis
• Interpretation
• Evaluation
• Synthesis
• Communication
Important questions to supplicate about historical sources
When learners are moving with a source, they need to inquire the following questions: - Who produced it? (provenance)
- When was it produced?
- For whom was it produced?
- Why was it produced?
- What does it maxim?/ What does it tell us on the eve the past?
- Can we trust that which it say?/ Was the person there?
- Is reliable? (is the...

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