NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION
GUIDELINE DOCUMENT
HISTORY HG & SG
FROM 2003
SENIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION
Contents:
SECTION A: SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY
1.1. Political and Constitutional
1.2. Legislation and Segregation.
1.3. Resistance and Extra-Parliamentary Activities.
1.4 Socio-Economic Development.
1.5 South Africa’s Foreign Relations
2.1 Constitutional Development.
2.2 Legislation and Segregation.
Policy of separate development.
South Africa’s Foreign Relations (Source-based questions only)
Resistance and extra-Parliamentary activities.
1. AFRICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
1.1 Colonialism and Colonisation
1.2 Decolonisation and African Nationalism
1.3 Post-Independence Developments
2. THE RISE OF THE SUPERPOWERS, 1917-1939
2.2 The rise of the United States of America (1917-1939)
3. CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
3.1 The rise of totalitarianism in Germany, Japan and Italy.
3.2 International crises and international relations
3.3 The American Foreign Policy (1935-1941)
4. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND EVENTS, 1945 TO 1970
4.2 Cold War Conflict after World War II
3. Format of Higher Grade Paper
3.1 Question Paper 1: South Africa
Section A Essay-type questions
Section B Source-based questions
3.2 Question Paper 2 World History
Section A Essay-type questions
Section B Source-based questions
4. Format of Standard Grade papers
4.1 Question Paper 1 South Africa
Section A Essay-type questions
Section B Source-based question
4.2 Question Paper 2 World History
Section A Essay-type questions
Section B Source-based questions
E. KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION IN HISTORY
Diagram illustrating the construction of knowledge in history
Essay-Writing: A Guide to thelearner.
Levels of Questioning: Source Based Questions
Assessment procedures of an essay
Questions the learner might be asked about sources
Skills developed in working with sources