Week to Monday May 16th

Task 1: History Knowledge Issues
1. Post three KIs raised from history on you BLOGS.
2. Find and read at least TWO other postings of classmates

Task 2:
1. Remeber to post you ESSAY REWRITE on the WIKI
http://wok-reasoning.wikispaces.com/Essay+Re-Write

Task 3:
1.  Choose ONE of the following questions and write a short paragraph with your response.
2.  Post your paragraph on your BLOG.

Choices:
a.  Compare these two claims.  Which of these views do you think is closer to the truth?

“In a very real sense the study of history is concerned with a subject matter more objective and independent than that of the natural sciences.  Just because historical matters is in the past, is gone… its objective reality is guaranteed; it is beyond being altered for any purpose whatsoever.” - G.R. Elton

“Though God cannot alter the past, historians can.” - Samuel Butler

b.  What do you understandd by George Orwell's observation, 'Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past'?  To what extent do you think it is true?

c.  'The study of history is so important that it should be a compulsory IB subject.'  To what extent do you think this is true?

d. According to a well-known adage, 'history is written by the victors'.  How different do you think it would be if it were written by the losers instead?


Task 4:
1. Read 'Mathematics' section Pages 134 to 138


Task 5:
1. Click on the SURVEY questions to the RIGHT of the blog.
2. Take the SURVEY