Historical+analysis

= = =Historical Analysis=

The SBS has created a series of short documentaries, each one explores the family history of one prominent Australian. Choose ONE of these videos and watch the first 30minutes. The videos go for 50minutes but as a historian you will never have full access to the past and you must construct what you can from what you have. You are to watch the videos and answer a series of historical questions, you will be marked on your answers. Extra credit will be given to students who can think creatively and abstractly and ask their own questions of the video.



As you are watching the video you can either take mental notes and answer the questions after viewing OR watch the video and pause when you feel you can answer, or a combination, which ever is easiest for you.

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Le Questions
Where are the sources are coming from? Are they form libraries, council records, diaries, books, newspapers?

How reliable do they seem and why?

Do the records focus on a particular aspect of history? What are the limitations of these sources?

What are the kinds of questions the person is asking about their history (quote needed)?

Why do you think these questions were important to him/her?

What kind of questions would you ask?

From the video provide evidence of how their ancestors have 'Shaped the Modern World' and their own personal world.