Grade 8

The curriculum statement is from the Department of Education for the year 2008.

Knowledge focus

The knowledge focus for achieving the Learning Outcomes in Grade 8 is reflected in.

History

  • Changing worlds: the French Revolution.

  • Changing worlds: industrialisation.

    • the Industrial Revolution in Britain: changing technology, agriculture and trade, exploitation and the new world of work, trade unionism, the growth of urban areas, social problems and political rights;

    • industrialisation in South Africa: diamonds and gold, and changing work and lives in South Africa on the mines, the land and in the cities (including the 1913 Land Act);

    • sugar and labour in Natal;

    • early trade union movements.

  • Resisting British control:

    • examples could include the wars between the Zulu and the British, the Pedi and the British, or a regional example;

    • the South African War: who was involved and how did it affect their lives?

    • The experience of colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:

    • the Industrial Revolution and colonial expansion;

    • how African societies experienced and responded to colonialism: a British, Belgian or Portuguese colony;

    • colonialism and the exploitation of resources.

  • Changing ideas and technologies - World War I:

    • how industrialisation, growing nationalism in Europe, and conflict over colonies contributed to the outbreak of World War I;
      trench warfare;

    • changing roles: women in World War I;

    • the impact of World War I on South Africa.

 

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