{"id":40773,"date":"2015-11-30T05:23:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T05:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=40773"},"modified":"2015-11-30T05:23:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T05:23:45","slug":"how-do-i-explain-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2015\/11\/30\/how-do-i-explain-this\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I explain this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An essential skill in History&#8211;indeed, it&#8217;s one of the assessment objectives on the IGCSE syllabus&#8211;is <b>explanation<\/b>. Closely examining History means analyzing it, not just listing dates and names.<\/p>\n<p>Grade 10 took some time this week to revise analysis strategies, the second &#8216;E&#8217; in their PEE paragraphs. Using their current topic, the League of Nations, we broke down key events through four different analytical lenses: cause and effect; significance; motives and intentions; and change and continuity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the students use these approaches in their exam answers they will be in very good shape&#8211;it&#8217;s exactly what the examiner is looking for and it&#8217;s part of what makes a good historian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essential skill in History&#8211;indeed, it&#8217;s one of the assessment objectives on the IGCSE syllabus&#8211;is explanation. Closely examining History means analyzing it, not just listing dates and names. Grade 10 took some time this week to revise analysis strategies, the second &#8216;E&#8217; in their PEE paragraphs. Using their current topic, the League of Nations, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":40772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-10","category-secondary-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}