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Humanities

Year 7

Mr Pierre, Mr Sulayman, Mr Saleem & Mr Femi

In Humanities we focus on three key areas: Geography, History and embedded Global Perspectives within these topics.

These areas provide the opportunity for students ask questions that will help them to understand better the world around them, and gain insights into how events and features are connected across both time and space.

Throughout the year we seek to develop 7 key skills that run through the curriculum, which also serve as our standards: Research - Analysis - Evaluation - Communication - Collaboration - Subject Literacy

We assess individual progress in each of these skills through a variety of methods: short tests and quizzes, ongoing classwork submissions, verbal participation, and project work.

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About us!

Mr Sulayman Mr Pierre Mr Saleem Ms Donne

sulayman.hayat@emsdoha.net

piet.bosch@emsdoha.net

donne.botha@emsdoha.net

mohamed.majam@emsdoha.net

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RESOURCES

Curriculum Guide
Google Classroom and Yr 7 Google Site
Online Geography and History Resource - BOOST-Hodder Education (Each student has been provided with an individual login and has access to the online textbook and lesson specific resources and assessments)
Google site providing general information and term Summaries.

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Additional Resources

We make extensive use of a number of websites and resources that are freely available. Notable sites include:

We use also Youtube extensively in order to provide additional engaging resources

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Standards Based Learning Report strands for Humanities: Geography, History and Global Perspectives

Year 7-9

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Standard	Description
Research	Formulates appropriate research questions. Locates, selects, organises and records relevant information from a range of print and multimedia resources.
Reflection	Considers the benefits and challenges of working in both teams and independently. Examines how personal perspectives on an issue may change. Identifies skills learnt or improved during this process.
Analysis	Identifies perspectives and complexities, interprets data and information to make connections and recognise relationships, patterns and trends.
Evaluation	Evaluates sources within subject context, makes connections, assesses importance of features and/ or events. Evaluates judgments, decisions and arguments.
Communication	Selects varied and appropriate communication methods (including diagrams, short written responses and longer essays) to effectively describe and explain specific subject content. Constructs evidence based arguments that demonstrate understanding.
Subject Literacy	Recalls knowledge of and uses subject specific terminology and vocabulary.

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