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2019-20 Ark John Keats Year 11 History Exam question guide and key fact lists Note – these can both be found at the start of your Final Revision Pack, but we’ve re-printed them in case you can’t find them! 1 2019-20 PAPER 1: MEDICINE – 1 HOUR 15 MINS Question Marks - What to do Time Potential sentence starters/tips 1) Describe 4 marks 5 mins One key feature is… two key 2 points with evidence Evidence for this is… features of... 2a) How 8 marks 10 mins Source A is useful for answering the question because it useful are says... (content). Sources A and 1 paragraph on source A I also know this is true because… (own knowledge). B for an • What it says enquiry into... • How your own Source A is also useful as it was made by... This would knowledge backs it up make it useful because… • Why its background is useful 1 para. on source B (same points) 2b) How could 4 marks 5 mins you follow up Write a simple sentence for each Source B to question. Be specific! find out more about… 3) Explain one 4 marks 5 mins One key difference/similarity was… way in For example in the first period it was like this… which... were 1 PEE However/and in the second period it was like this… different/ This shows that overall, the periods were similar/different similar as… 4) Explain 12 marks 15 mins One reason why… why… Evidence for this is… 3 PEE Return to the question in your explanation 5/6) How far 16 marks 35 mins Overall, I agree/disagree because… do you agree? Some historians might agree because… Explain your Intro – agree/disagree and briefly Some historians might disagree because… answer say why In conclusion I think… Agree paragraph Disagree paragraph Conclusion – what do you think and why? PAPER 2. SECTION A: COLD WAR – 52 MINS Question Marks - What to do Time Potential sentence starters/tips 1) Explain two 8 marks 10 mins One consequence was… consequences Evidence for this is… of… 2 PEE This was a consequence because… 2) Write a 8 marks 15 mins At the beginning… narrative This led to… account Beginning Because of this… analysing… Finally… Middle End 3) Explain two 16 marks (8 marks per question – 25 mins One reason why… was important for… is… of the you get to choose 2 out of 3) (10 mins Evidence for this is… following: per Therefore, … was important for… because… • The 2 PEE per question question, importance with 5 of… for… mins to plan PAPER 2. SECTION B: ANGLO-SAXONS AND NORMANS – 52 MINS 2 2019-20 4 a) Describe 4 marks 5 mins One key feature is… two key Evidence for this is… features of... 2 points with evidence 4 b) Explain 12 marks 15 mins One reason why… why… Evidence for this is… 3 PEE Return to the question in your explanation 4 c i/ii) How 16 marks 35 mins Overall, I agree/disagree because… far do you Some historians might agree because… agree? Explain Intro – agree/disagree and briefly Some historians might disagree because… your answer say why In conclusion I think… Agree paragraph Disagree paragraph Conclusion – what do you think and why? PAPER 3: GERMANY – 1 HOUR 20 MINS Question Marks - What to do Time Potential sentence starters/tips 1) Give two 4 marks 5 mins Source A suggests…. (inference) things you can I know this because …(quotation/detail) infer about… 2 inferences with backup quotes/details 2) Explain 12 marks 15 mins One reason why… why… Evidence for this is… 3 PEE Return to the question in your explanation 3a) Study 8 marks 10 mins Source A is useful for answering the question because it Sources B and says... (content). C. How useful 1 paragraph on source A I also know this is true because… (own knowledge). are Sources B • What it says and C for an • How your own Source A is also useful as it was made by... This would enquiry into… knowledge backs it up make it useful because… • Why its background is useful 1 para. on source B (same points) 3b) Study 4 marks 5 mins Interp 1 believes ….I know this because it says… interpretations On the other hand, interp 2 believes…. I know this 1 and 2. They 1 paragraph because it says… both give different views Therefore, the main difference is… about…. What is the main difference between these two views? 3c) Suggest one 4 marks 5 mins The interpretations may differ because they may have reason why used different sources Interpretations 1 paragraph Interpretation 1 may have used sources like source … 1 and 2 give because interp. 1 says… and source… says… different views Interpretation 2 may have used sources like source … about ….. You may use because interp. 2 says… and source… says… Sources B and C to help you explain your answer. 3d) How far do 16 marks 35 mins I agree/disagree with interpretation 2 because… you agree with Intro – do you agree or disagree Interpretation 2 and briefly why Some may agree with interp 2 as… about … 3 2019-20 Para 1 – interp 2 (quote, evidence Evidence to back up interp 2 is… to support, explain why someone Some may agree with interp 2 because… might agree) Para 2 – interp 1 (quote, evidence On the other hand, some may agree with interp 1 to support, explain why someone because… might agree) Evidence to back up interp 1 is… Conclusion – which do you agree Some may agree with interp 1 because… with most and why In conclusion, I think… PART A: FACT LISTS Paper 1: Medicine 1 Give one religious belief about the cause of God gave you illnesses as a punishment illness 2 How did people use the idea of the Four If your humours are imbalanced, you will become sick. E.g. Humours to explain illness too much blood = fever 3 1.1 Med1.1 causes How did people use the idea of miasma to Miasma = bad air, caused by rotting bodies or flesh explain why people became ill 4 Give two ways people used the idea of the Purging/Bleeding Four Humours to treat illness 5 How did people use the idea of miasma to Pomanders prevent them catching illness? Keep house clean with herbs 6 Give one way each of the three roles Physicians – diagnosed from book, urine charts treated people during the Medieval period Apothecaries – herbal remedies Barber Surgeons – minor surgery/bleeding 7 Give one key feature of hospitals during the Run by monks/nuns, At sites of pilgrimage, not to heal but to 1.2 Med1.2 prevention andtreatment Medieval period look after 8 How did people use religious ways to Flagellate, prayer prevent them catching the Black Death 9 How did the government use quarantine? 40 days, not applied to rich or priests 10 Give another example of how the Some towns cleared up rubbish and dead bodies government was increasing its role in 1.3 Med1.3 Case study preventing illness 11 Why did people continue to use the idea of No better alternative the Four Humours to explain illness when Had been used for a long time we knew it didn’t work? 12 Give one way Thomas Sydenham tried to To observe patient and not just diagnose from a book, to 2.1 Ren2.1 causes change the way physicians worked treat each symptom individually, that one disease might 4 2019-20 cause all symptoms and different people could suffer from same disease 13 How did the Royal Society help to spread Journal to share scientific experiments and discoveries, e.g. new scientific ideas about medicine? Hooke used it to prove animalcules existed 14 How did people link the colour of a disease Whatever colour disease was people would treat it with to its treatment? something of the same colour 15 How did the work of Vesalius help us better Dissections, flip book to share understanding with other understand how the human body worked? physicians 16 Why were barber surgeons and License 2.2 Ren2.2 treat apothecaries improving during this period? 17 Why was hospital care decreasing during Henry VIII closed down monasteries this period? 18 How did Harvey improve our understanding Heart was a pump, blood was not absorbed but reused of the circulatory system? 19 How did the government’s use of Less days but more organised. 28 days and the government quarantine improve during the Great made sure it was stuck to Plague? 20 Give another example of how the Killed cats and dogs, criminals had to pick up waste 2.2 Ren2.2 case study government was increasing its role in preventing illness 21 What was the idea of Spontaneous Bacteria made germs, these germs then helped to create Generation? miasma and disease 22 How did Pasteur’s Germ theory prove Used wine and vinegar to show that germs made rotting. Spontaneous Generation wrong? 23 How did Koch change our understanding of Showed that some bacteria was good/some bad. Therefore 3.1 Enlight 3.1 causes bacteria? link to infection/illness 24 Give one way hospitals were improved Nightingale made them cleaner. Nurses trained at during this period? Nightingale School for Nurses 25 How did antiseptics and anaesthetic Antiseptics – carbolic acid (Lister) reduced infections after improve surgery? surgery Anaesthetic – Chloroform (Simpson) better than ether, 26 Give two key features of the Public Health Public toilets, public clean water supply, public parks, 3.2 Enloght3.2 treat Act (1875) 27 How did the government increase its role in Made smallpox compulsory for everyone in 1872 (first time) health through vaccination? 28 How did the work of Jenner improve First vaccination/removed threat of smallpox 3.2 people’s health? study t case Enligh 5 2019-20 29 How did people’s beliefs about miasma Government did not believe it could be in water as miasma slow down our understanding of the was in the air Cholera Outbreak? 30 How did the Cholera Outbreak lead to Realised link between poor sanitation and illness, had to better sewers? build sewers to stop it.
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