I'm not actually sure what the title of my unit is (
) embarassing I know, but it's all about Britain in the years 1925-1960, the controversies being on appeasement and whether the years after ww2 were a social success or an economic disaster - is anybody else doing this at all? I haven't seen an discussion about it as yet
Also, my school is refusing to tell us what we got in our courseworks, and seeing that you all know is making me really sad
Apparently Edexcel has told teachers that they're not allowed to tell students, and my teacher refuses to tell us because they've said the entire class has gotten a B or above, and that it isn't a cause for concern for any of us in terms of our predicted grades, and they don't want it to affect the way we approach revising for the exam, plus the fact that it may change and this could make somebody really sad, but it's killing me that everybody else seems to know
I'm sure we were told that the coursework was 50% of the A2 and 25% of the overall A level?? I really hope it is, not 40%
Our teacher has told us that we must provide our overall judgement in our introduction, go on a small journey with our middle paragraphs, and arrive at the same, perhaps only slightly altered, judgement. She has told us definitely not to do the typical GCSE thing of saying one thing in your introduction and something completely different in your conclusion because that will make you look like you don't really know what you're talking about and are saying things for the sake of saying them, rather than because they are actually well backed up historical statements.
As for the controversies, we've been told that the sources should be like the backbone of the argument, but all compared with each other, definitely not a source per paragraph thing that's so easy to do. It should be the sources surrounded by own knowledge and historians to embellesh it
So yes, the main thing to remember to do is cross-reference it