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History 12 - Course Activation Assignment

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Welcome to
Distributed Learning
History 12

The following activity is an activation assignment. This must be completed online and e-mailed to your instructor before you may register in  DL History 12. It will be worth 5% of your total course mark. This assignment should take approximately two hours in total. You may wish to do a rough copy of your answers on paper, before completing the online version. If you quit the program, it will be submitted automatically, even if you have not finished, so be sure to complete all sections during the same time period and then submit.



The following assignment will be marked out of 100.


Review the “What is History” PowerPoint. (CLICK HERE)

Assignment
Answer the following questions in paragraph format.
Each question is worth 25 marks.


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1. 
Write a short paragraph answering: What is History to you?
 

2. 
When someone writes the history of the past decade (10 years), what events do you feel will be significant and why?
 

3. 
How can we understand anything of other people or ourselves, if we know nothing of history? The historian shows us how change has worked in the past and helps us to understand the present and make educated guesses about the future.
Write a short paragraph, using examples of current events, about how understanding history might help us understand what is going on today and may help us predict the future.
 

4. 
Why would identifying bias and types of sources be important for the writing history?
 



 
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