Modern History Transformed NSW Stage 6 Year 11 2e Print & Digital

For the new Modern History 11-12 Syllabus (2024) for Year 11 2027 / Year 12 2028 implementation

Modern History Transformed Year 11 NSW Stage 6 Second Edition is written specifically for the new Stage 6 syllabus to equip students with the key knowledge, understanding and skills required to investigate the issues, people and events that have shaped the world today. This new edition provides the right balance of source-rich accessible content, embedded skills development and explicit writing instructions supported by innovative digital resources. The digital resources include additional optional topics and chapters with diverse perspectives, source-based and exam-question explainer videos, practice assessments, an exam generator and a powerful Learning Management System for teachers.

Components

Print Textbook
The text delivered in print format.

Access Code (found on the inside cover of the Print Textbook)
The 16-character code gives Cambridge GO access to:

• PDF Textbook: The downloadable PDF version of the student text enables students to take notes, highlight key passages, and bookmark pages.
• Interactive Textbook - "1 calendar-year subscription": The online version of the student text delivers a host of interactive features to enhance the teaching and learning experience of the student text. The Interactive Textbook is available as a "calendar-year subscription" which is defined as follows: if activation occurs between January and July of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December this year. If activation occurs between August and December of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December the following year.

Features

• A fresh, modern layout and streamlined, syllabus aligned chapter structure draws on best-practice learning design principles to create a cleaner reading experience that keeps students focused on the historical content that matters most.
• Future-focussed content to inspire students to use their understanding of history to learn from the past and build a better tomorrow includes chapters on the women who inspired the creation of the United Nations, constructing history in the digital age, personality studies on Nelson Mandela and Volodymir Zelensky, and more.
• Explicit writing instruction is embedded throughout each chapter. Overseen by NSW-based literacy experts, our evidence-based approach to building writing skills is underpinned by the use of key high-impact writing strategies.
• Improved sequencing logically builds on the conceptual knowledge and skills students have learned in Stages 4 and 5, while suggested scope and sequence documents model different programming options for teachers, including ways to integrate the Historical Investigation into other topics
• Review questions at the end of chapter sections are carefully sequenced to support students to revise and apply content and develop more complicated ways of thinking.
• Source analysis and research tasks throughout each chapter provide senior students with multiple opportunities to extend their learning.
• The updated dedicated chapter on the Historical Investigation Project guides students through the historical investigation component of the Year 11 syllabus with annotated sample answers, support for developing inquiry questions, researching historical sources and presentation skills, as well as tips for individual and group work, proposal templates and a sample project.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Investigating modern history – The nature of modern history
Chapter 1 The investigation of historic sites and sources: death, disease, division and the Q Station
Chapter 2 The contestability of the past: feminist peace activists in the First World War
Chapter 3 The twenty-first century: constructing history in an era of digital transformation
Chapter 4 Contestability and commemoration: the January 6 United States Capitol attack

Part 2: Investigating modern history – Case studies 
List A: Case studies from Australia, Europe and North America
Chapter 5 The decline and fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Chapter 6 No kings? The American Revolution, 1760s–1780s
Chapter 7 Volodymyr Zelenskyy: personality study 
List B: Case studies from Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America
Chapter 8 The Meiji Restoration
Chapter 9 Nelson Mandela: personality study
Chapter 10 Chairman Xi Jinping: personality study

Part 3: The shaping of the modern world
Chapter 11 The First World War: a 21st-century perspective

Part 4: Historical inquiry skills
Chapter 12 The historical investigation project