The Holocaust Part B - Interpretations & Approaches

Worked examples (6)

• 1Getting started: placing the extract on the continuity-contingency spectrum
• 2Getting started: reading the historian's APPROACH (ideas vs context)
• 3Building confidence: using own knowledge to SUPPORT and TEST (not narrate)
• 4Building confidence: structuring the 40-mark single-extract answer
• 5Stretch: avoiding description, sub-message hunting and the teleology trap
• 6Stretch: the A* method — whole interpretation, approach, integrated knowledge, calibrated judgement

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 an intentionalist interpretation
• 2Getting started: identifying a Hitler-centred approach
• 3Building confidence: using own knowledge to SUPPORT the analysis
• 4Building confidence: structuring the 40-mark answer
• 5Stretch: avoiding description and the 'rhetoric proves a plan' trap
• 6Stretch: an A*-technique walkthrough of a full answer

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative intentionalist 'straight road' extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative intentionalist extract centred on the 1939 prophecy)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative 'programme' school intentionalist extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative 'no Hitler, no Holocaust' extract)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative intentionalist extract conceding the missing-order problem; A* exemplar)
• ✓Model answer — 9489 Paper 3-style single-extract question (illustrative intentionalist extract attacking functionalism; A* exemplar)

Worked examples (6)

• 1Getting started: identifying a structuralist 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 structuralism 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: recognising a FUNCTIONALIST 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, sub-message hunting and functionalism/structuralism confusion
• 6Stretch: an A*-technique walkthrough on a functionalist extract

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: placing an extract on the spectrum and recognising synthesis
• 4Building confidence: deploying OWN KNOWLEDGE to support BOTH strands
• 5Stretch: structuring the single 40-mark answer on a synthesis extract
• 6Stretch: an A*-technique walkthrough using 'working towards the Führer'

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 overall INTERPRETATION of the perpetrators
• 2Getting started: identifying the historian's APPROACH to the perpetrators
• 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 (not describe)
• 4Building confidence: structuring the 40-mark answer
• 5Stretch: avoiding description and sub-message hunting
• 6Stretch: how a historian's DEFINITION reveals their interpretation and 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 of the bystanders
• 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 — showing the debate turns on approach, not facts

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)