The Holocaust Part A - Historical Context

Worked examples (6)

• 1Getting started: identifying the historian's overall INTERPRETATION
• 2Getting started: identifying the historian's APPROACH
• 3Building confidence: deploying own knowledge to SUPPORT (not narrate)
• 4Building confidence: structuring the 40-mark single-extract answer
• 5Stretch: avoiding description and sub-message hunting
• 6Stretch: the A* method — whole interpretation + approach + integrated knowledge

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single unattributed extract (illustrative)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single unattributed extract (illustrative)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single unattributed extract (illustrative)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single unattributed extract (illustrative)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single unattributed extract (illustrative)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single unattributed extract (illustrative)

Worked examples (6)

• 1Getting started: identifying the historian's interpretation
• 2Getting started: identifying the historian's approach
• 3Building confidence: using own knowledge to SUPPORT the analysis
• 4Building confidence: structuring the 40-mark answer
• 5Stretch: avoiding description and sub-message hunting
• 6Stretch: an A*-technique walkthrough of a full answer

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative intentionalist extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative functionalist 'twisted road' extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative structuralist/bureaucratic extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative functionalist/improvisation extract on Kristallnacht)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative integrated/Friedlander-style extract; A* exemplar)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative intentionalist extract that attacks functionalism; A* exemplar)

Worked examples (6)

• 1Getting started: identifying the historian's interpretation
• 2Getting started: identifying the historian's approach
• 3Building confidence: deploying own knowledge to SUPPORT (not describe)
• 4Building confidence: structuring the single 40-mark answer
• 5Stretch: avoiding description and 'sub-message hunting'
• 6Stretch: an A*-technique walkthrough on the war-and-genocide debate

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single extract (illustrative, unattributed)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single extract (illustrative, unattributed)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single extract (illustrative, unattributed)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single extract (illustrative, unattributed)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single extract (illustrative, unattributed) — A* exemplar
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single extract (illustrative, unattributed) — A* exemplar

Worked examples (6)

• 1Getting started: identifying the historian's INTERPRETATION
• 2Getting started: identifying the historian's APPROACH
• 3Building confidence: using own knowledge to SUPPORT (not describe)
• 4Building confidence: structuring the 40-mark answer
• 5Stretch: avoiding description and sub-message hunting
• 6Stretch: how a historian's DEFINITION of 'resistance' reveals their approach

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract) — A* exemplar
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract) — A* exemplar

Worked examples (6)

• 1Getting started: identifying the historian's INTERPRETATION
• 2Getting started: identifying the historian's APPROACH
• 3Building confidence: deploying OWN KNOWLEDGE to support (not describe)
• 4Building confidence: structuring the single 40-mark answer
• 5Stretch: avoiding description and 'sub-message hunting'
• 6Stretch: an A*-technique walkthrough on a tricky synthesis extract

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed)

Worked examples (6)

• 1Getting started: identifying the historian's INTERPRETATION
• 2Getting started: reading the historian's APPROACH (moral vs contextual)
• 3Building confidence: deploying own knowledge to SUPPORT (not describe)
• 4Building confidence: structuring the 40-mark single-extract answer
• 5Stretch: avoiding description and sub-message hunting
• 6Stretch: the A* move — linking approach to verdict on the bystanders

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract, A* exemplar)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative, unattributed extract, A* exemplar)