Mortlake P-12 Curriculum
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        • C.O.L.A >
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HISTORY UNIT outlines
5-7
  • Introduction to Historical Concepts.
  • Personal History – Time Capsule
  • Personal History – Autobiography and Family History
  • Whaling
  • Gold Rush – 1850s Australia
  • Gallipoli
  • Federation
  • Indigenous Australian History
  • Victorian England
  • Olympics/Commonwealth Games/World Cup
  • Current Affairs
  • Countries of the World
  • Ancient Societies – Greece, Rome, Ancient China, Ancient Egypt.
Year 8-10 - AUSTRALIA…Living on the Rim 
  • Local History…early settlement, White occupation and historic buildings and history of the Mortlake area.
  • Indigenous history including local Framlingham Aboriginal settlement
  • Kanawinka…the Western Districts Volcanic Plains Geopark.
Year 8-10 - ASIA… From Samurai to Superpower.
  • Geography of Asia.
  • Medieval Japan and Bushido, the cult of the Samurai.
  • Meiji Restoration and the modernization of Japan.
  • World War 2: Japanese invasion of South East Asia, Pearl Harbour, Burma Railways and Japanese concentration camps, Iwo Jima and Hiroshima.
Year 8-10 - SOUTH of the MEDITERRANEAN….Africa and the Middle East
  • Introducing the geography of Africa and the Middle East
  • Ancient Egypt… the story of Moses and Rameses.
  • Apartheid in South Africa…. The story of Steve Biko.
  • Terrorism….’Fahrenheit 9/11’ and rising terrorism.
Year 8-10 - EUROPE…. Classical Empires to the Nazis.
  • What is an Empire?
  • The Roman Empire – life under the Romans.
  • The Nazi Empire – the Holocaust, life under the Nazis and Nazi propaganda.
Year 8-10 - REVOLUTION to  NEW MILLENIUM  ISSUES
  • What is a revolution?
  • Who rules? The politics of power.
  • Elections and political parties.
  • Investigation of revolutionary change.
Year 8-10 - THE AMERICAS
  • The geography of the Americas.
  • Investigation of the life and culture of tribal Indians in North America.
  • Exploration of North America and the development of the 13 colonies.
  • The coming of Europeans and the effect on Indian culture.
Year 8-10 - CONFLICT – Twentieth Century Issues and Conflicts
  • Mapping major conflicts of the 20th century.
  • Planning: issues that divide us: race, religion, social and political inequality, politics and independence, environment, resources, poverty.
  • Civil Rights movement in America.
  • Australian Indigenous issues and land rights.
  • Terrorism and the Middle East.
  • Resources, global warming and the environment.
Year 8-10 - OCEANS – A Nautical History of the World
  • Our oceanic geography of the world: currents, trenches, mysteries of the deep.
  • Environmental issues: changing ice caps, global warming, fishing, whaling.
  • Ancient history: Voyages of Jason and the Argonauts, the Atlantis myth.
  • Medieval world: the Vikings, voyages to discover the New World, Columbus.
  • Piracy and pirates: the Caribbean Sea, famous pirates and the development of a myth, modern   piracy.
  • New World discoveries: Australia’s discovery and settlement, shipwrecks and exploration of Antarctica.
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