13 History (13HIS)

13 History

History presents you with the dilemmas, choices and beliefs of people in the past. 

This course focuses on the causes and consequences of world events, where people have experienced threats to their way of life. You will learn to ask and answer important questions, evaluate evidence, identify and analyse different interpretations of the past, and substantiate arguments and judgements. 

Student choice is a feature of this course as you research and learn to examine the past as a historian. Opportunity for blended learning. 

Potential Topics 

• 1981 Springbok Tour
• Māori Battalion WW2 
• Treaty of Waitangi 
• Chinese Influence in the Pacific
• Dawn Raids
• Influenza Pandemic in Samoa, 1918