History Self-directed Case Study

Task Instructions
This Case Study is divided into 4 sections. 
 Create a new page called 'AOK History (Your Name)' and save it in your student folder. 

 For each section below:
o Either - make brief notes 
o Or - write a 200-500 word response to the task prompts 
NB You must write at least TWO 200-500 word responses.
 
 The due date is: 

If you use any material in your answers that you found elsewhere you must cite appropriately and
include a works cited list.  

You will be graded using the TOK Journal Rubric

Section 1: What is History

Read the notes here. 
Watch these videos: What is History for? (4:13), What is the difference between History and the
past? (12:51) 
Write brief notes on this section
OR
Write a response to ONE of the following questions
1. What is History?
2. Can, or should, we learn from the past? 

Section 2: How do Historians generate knowledge?

Read the notes here. Read the article 'History and TOK' here.
Write brief notes on this section
OR
Write a response to ONE of the following questions
1. How do historians use Reason and Language as their primary WOKs?
2. How do the WOKs Emotion and Imagination differ in the research and the communication
phase of history? 

Section 3: Bias and Selection 

Read the notes here. 
Write brief notes on this section
OR
Write a response to ONE of the following questions
1. How can bias and selection shape the reliability of knowledge in History?
2. How can the impact of bias and selection be limited by Historians and knowers? 

Section 4: Revisionism 
Read the notes here. Read article 1 here and article 2 here.
Write brief notes on this section
OR
Write a response to ONE of the following questions
1. In what way was the Smithsonian exhibit seen as a challenge to, or revision of, the traditional
narrative?
2. How and why were the responses to this revisionism so different in the two articles?