As my choices for IB this year is HL History, English and Psychology with a side of SL Biology, maths and ab initio Spanish, I realize the importance of taking notes constantly especially for History, English, Biology and Spanish. Hence, the importance of actually taking the journal blogging as an important part of my 2-year journey in IB as I want the information as fresh as possible constantly in my mind to avoid cramming later on. Many of my subjects also require a lot of reading hence:
note-taking+revision+reflection is incredibly important.
I haven't seen much of the effect of my practice yet, but I do see that it works a little in Spanish as I remember most of my vocabulary.
Tuesday: Today, we talked about the case studies we are going to study which are India, Indochina, Algeria and Ghana. Mr. Andres has been very informative and interesting. We went through the common terms in the introduction of "Nationalist & Independence Movements" which clarified new and old terms such as colonialism, neo-colonialism and Marxism.
We also refreshed on OPVL as a strategy in answering source-based questions and learnt how learning about popular historians and their background would help in V which is value and L as we would know what factors are VALUABLE and what factors could be BIASED.
Wednesday: Today, we watched short documentaries on Queen Victoria's Empire and learnt reasons as to why Britons emigrated to different colonies especially India for reasons such as wealth and exploration. Mr. Andres again highlighted the importance of doing background research on famous historians such as Lawrence James to apply the knowledge to answering source-based questions.
Thursday: Today, we looked at the structure of a History Paper 1 which is divided to 4 parts. We learnt what usually appears in each section and tried to apply our Origin Purpose Value Limitation (OPVL) method in answering two source questions about British rule in India.
After studying the backgrounds of the Historians who quoted these sources, I realize the extra points that we could garner by adding the knowledge of their background e.g. career, nationality etc. to discover the value and limitation of their claims. We also learnt how the features of a quote source e.g. book title, page support in terms of figuring out what the focus is and the importance of that certain quote.
Learning to be creative with OPVL would help a lot in answering Paper 1 as I previously struggled in answering source-based questions creatively. I now know how to apply generous information to gain more marks while staying focused on the main idea of the question.
Tuesday: Today, we talked about the case studies we are going to study which are India, Indochina, Algeria and Ghana. Mr. Andres has been very informative and interesting. We went through the common terms in the introduction of "Nationalist & Independence Movements" which clarified new and old terms such as colonialism, neo-colonialism and Marxism.
We also refreshed on OPVL as a strategy in answering source-based questions and learnt how learning about popular historians and their background would help in V which is value and L as we would know what factors are VALUABLE and what factors could be BIASED.
Wednesday: Today, we watched short documentaries on Queen Victoria's Empire and learnt reasons as to why Britons emigrated to different colonies especially India for reasons such as wealth and exploration. Mr. Andres again highlighted the importance of doing background research on famous historians such as Lawrence James to apply the knowledge to answering source-based questions.
Thursday: Today, we looked at the structure of a History Paper 1 which is divided to 4 parts. We learnt what usually appears in each section and tried to apply our Origin Purpose Value Limitation (OPVL) method in answering two source questions about British rule in India.
After studying the backgrounds of the Historians who quoted these sources, I realize the extra points that we could garner by adding the knowledge of their background e.g. career, nationality etc. to discover the value and limitation of their claims. We also learnt how the features of a quote source e.g. book title, page support in terms of figuring out what the focus is and the importance of that certain quote.
Learning to be creative with OPVL would help a lot in answering Paper 1 as I previously struggled in answering source-based questions creatively. I now know how to apply generous information to gain more marks while staying focused on the main idea of the question.
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