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so who's doing History Extension? (3 Viewers)
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yay~ first post.
hey guys i did history ext last year for the hsc and i can truly say i enjoyed it to an extent.
In yr 12 our grade had 3 modern and 2 ancient classes. Starting out, the history ext class had around 25-30 kids but by the end of the 1st month or so we ended up with 11. Our hist faculty didnt really mind if u did bad in ur hist classes.
The kids that ended up staying did really well and our lowest mark was a E3 (band 5). I'd say if you enjoy writing shitloads, doing readings and doing lots of discussions about history, then this is the course for you.
For us it was 2 hours a week (2x1hr morning classes) and you got to learn about the history of history, all the historians and how this is related to today and alot of that kind of stuff. JFK is also really interesting but i must warn there is alot of content and essay writing.
hey guys i did history ext last year for the hsc and i can truly say i enjoyed it to an extent.
In yr 12 our grade had 3 modern and 2 ancient classes. Starting out, the history ext class had around 25-30 kids but by the end of the 1st month or so we ended up with 11. Our hist faculty didnt really mind if u did bad in ur hist classes.
The kids that ended up staying did really well and our lowest mark was a E3 (band 5). I'd say if you enjoy writing shitloads, doing readings and doing lots of discussions about history, then this is the course for you.
For us it was 2 hours a week (2x1hr morning classes) and you got to learn about the history of history, all the historians and how this is related to today and alot of that kind of stuff. JFK is also really interesting but i must warn there is alot of content and essay writing.
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cmk,
Did you attend Sefton? Those stats are pretty similar to the ones at Sefton, which has had a great record in achieving highly in history extension. My modern history teacher teaches it, and he's awesome.
At my school we do appeasement. So yeah, it sounds interesting.
Did you attend Sefton? Those stats are pretty similar to the ones at Sefton, which has had a great record in achieving highly in history extension. My modern history teacher teaches it, and he's awesome.
At my school we do appeasement. So yeah, it sounds interesting.
slowjam10
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lol i'll run off screaming with you. I have a scary assessment task which i woudl have worked on earlier but i ahve been sick for all of teh holidays so far sigh. My Historical Investigation is a 1250 word essay (handwritten, footnoted gaaaaaaaa :burn::burnmercreature said:
and a 3 minute powerpoint presentation. Obviously not as scary as yours but still quite daunting and its due second day back. I really wanted to have had it done but i had to go and get sick ...its all Transformers fault going out on Friday night and seeing it ..it was funny though.
Ohh yeah currently i do Ancient and Modern History ... Ancient is cool ....Modern is cool but Russians are a bit out there
I'm currently doing modern history and doing pretty well. =) I've been considering extension history since my teacher told us about it in year ten, but now i'm not so sure. Writing a hell of a lot has never been my strength.
You guys say you need a high level of english - so would advanced english be enough?
You guys say you need a high level of english - so would advanced english be enough?
Hey guys
To answer some of your questions.
*You don't need to be super at english but reasonably good. If ure doing eng
adv then that should be good enough.
*Hist ext actually scales quite decently as our class experienced. Just do well and you should be fine.
From memory there were some nights where I would get really frustrated at the work. Theres alot of content. You do alot of historiography but its quite interesting. You begin with Herodotus and finish with the modern historians. Theres all this stuff on how history is meant to be a 'science' and you really learn the philosophy behind it.
Second part is JFK regarding his life in and out of politics. That's cool too and we watched some documentaries and a movie on it.
Oh and there is the major work... but anyhoo gudluck with ur choices
To answer some of your questions.
*You don't need to be super at english but reasonably good. If ure doing eng
adv then that should be good enough.
*Hist ext actually scales quite decently as our class experienced. Just do well and you should be fine.
From memory there were some nights where I would get really frustrated at the work. Theres alot of content. You do alot of historiography but its quite interesting. You begin with Herodotus and finish with the modern historians. Theres all this stuff on how history is meant to be a 'science' and you really learn the philosophy behind it.
Second part is JFK regarding his life in and out of politics. That's cool too and we watched some documentaries and a movie on it.
Oh and there is the major work... but anyhoo gudluck with ur choices