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www. pdst. ie History and Transition Year Helen Sheil

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www. pdst. ie Broad educational experience DES: clear distinction between TY and LC programmes However, SKILLS developed in TY (e.g. critical thinking skills, or identifying and using a wide range of sources) can be very useful for LC History Forming units of work for Transition Year History

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www. pdst. ie Promotion of activity-based learning, research skills and self-directed learning Opportunity for students to use and develop digital media and IT skills The emphasis is on the process of learning rather than the content Opportunity to incorporate appropriate literacy and numeracy tasks Varied forms of assessment Forming units of work for Transition Year History

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www. pdst. ie http://www.pdst.ie/TY/curriculum Guidelines on developing Transition Units: http://www.ncca.ie/uploadedfiles/Senior% 20cycle%20review/TU_info_art.pdf http://www.ncca.ie/uploadedfiles/Senior% 20cycle%20review/TU_info_art.pdf http://www.pdst.ie/sc/history Transition Year helpful sites

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www. pdst. ie Many students and teachers have a strong interest in music can be used as a springboard into worthwhile historical study Students can be encouraged to ask parents/ grandparents to suggest songs that dealt with current affairs in their youth YouTube is a rich source of material Books such as Dorian Lynskeys 33 Revolutions Per Minute analyse well-known protest songs. Using songs in TY History

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www. pdst. ie Song: Skibbereen Sinad OConnor sings Skibbereen on the Long Journey Home CD Also available at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6VWPzsPqcHQ https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6VWPzsPqcHQ

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www. pdst. ie Suggestions for Skibbereen (or any song) Listen to the song (aural literacy) Comprehension Q&A (teacher/student?) Fact or fiction? Songs as sources? Research the context of the song, and use it as a starting point for work on themes such as the Famine, emigration, the emigrant experience in America, local history Link to other sources such as the Skibbereen evidence given to The Devon Commission: http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/1194 1/page/281538 http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/1194 1/page/281538 Encourage students to find and use other related primary and secondary sources

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www. pdst. ie Billie Holiday sings Strange Fruit at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs Link the song to the famous photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, available at http://abhmuseum.org/2012/01/an- iconic-lynching-in-the-north/http://abhmuseum.org/2012/01/an- iconic-lynching-in-the-north/ Interesting 13-min NPR broadcast about the lynching and the song available at http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?ac tion=1&t=1&islist=false&id=129025516&m=129034 322 http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?ac tion=1&t=1&islist=false&id=129025516&m=129034 322 Strange Fruit

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www. pdst. ie What songs would you use? Are there contemporary protest songs? Ask your students to suggest songs from the past and/or present. Why is music so powerful? How did dictators such as Hitler and Stalin use/abuse music? Songs

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www. pdst. ie TY offers time to explore the use of photographs as historic sources. Analysing photographs is a way of developing students visual literacy. Students can create photographic sources. Using photographs provides opportunities for out-of-school activities, cross-curricular links and research skills development. Photographs and TY History

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www. pdst. ie Teach students where to locate photographs of historical interest. NLI digital archive at http://www.nli.ie/digital- photographs.aspxhttp://www.nli.ie/digital- photographs.aspx County library collections, e.g., http://foto.clarelibrary.ie/fotoweb/ http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/mapsimages/c orkphotographs/ http://foto.clarelibrary.ie/fotoweb/ http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/mapsimages/c orkphotographs/ International collections, e.g., http://www.gettyimages.ie/editorialimages/archiv al# http://life.time.com/history/ http://www.gettyimages.ie/editorialimages/archiv al#http://life.time.com/history/ Conducting searches using Google-Images Photographs suggested activities

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www. pdst. ie Handover of Custume Barracks, Athlone, 1922

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www. pdst. ie Get students to research old photographs of their own areas/families Can they re-take a similar scene or family group? Explain the similarities/differences. Photographs suggested activities

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www. pdst. ie True/false worksheet on the value of photographs as historic sources (p. 37) Explore some of these points in more detail, e.g. investigate historic fakes Photographs suggested activities

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www. pdst. ie Close analysis of a photograph Observe-analyse-interpret (p.38)