Reflection sheet 1

Year 11
Historical
Investigation
Project

Name: Juliette Kaado

1. What do you already know about historical inquiry?

Historical inquiry is a process of which you explore and investigate areas of

interest. This is a gradual process that should be constantly documented in
order to achieve a well developed end product
It requires you to investigate into a variety of resources in order to obtain
aacurate and useful information
It is open ended, but is also guided in order to condense ideas and make them
more specific

2. What areas or topics of history are you interested in investigating further?

Sudan civil war

The concept of terrorism
Rwandan genocide
Cold War
Sierra Leon
Liberia

3. When you do research, what do you generally find easy to do? Please list as many
things as you like.

Understanding the content and making sense of it

Condensing information and picking out key elements that will be most useful for

me
Sorting and organizing information

4. When you do research, what do you generally find difficult to do? Please list as many
things as you like.

I find it difficult to get through really large amounts of information that are content

heavy
Finding the most relevant and useful information for my area of study
Deciding what is most important