Following up on an earlier post in this spot, the Grade 9 students are learning about the causes of the First World War. This is an exciting, rather controversial unit, because pinning down the exact cause of this “seminal catastrophe” is very difficult and depends heavily on each historian’s perspective.
To wit, here’s an interesting piece that ran on BBC a few days back. The top historians in their field–and they can’t agree! We’ll be getting to this shortly in Grade 9.