How To Answer Questions

Question 1

How do you answer a 4 marker?

Answer 1

• 4 separate points (undeveloped)
• 2 fully detailed different points (developed points)

Question 2

How do you answer a 6 marker?

Answer 2

• 2 fully explained points
  (3 just to be safe?)

Question 3

How do you answer ‘what is the cartoonists message of this source’?

Answer 3

• message
• prove it w evidence from source
• contextual knowledge to explain message

Question 4

How do you answer ‘why was this poster issued/published’?

Answer 4

• purpose of the source (what emotions did the author want it to evoke)
• use source detail to explain purpose
• contextual knowledge to explain the purpose
• focus on the specific date

Question 5

How do you answer ‘How useful is this source’?

Answer 5

explain how useful
- detail from source
- contextual knowledge
- analyse provenance (tone/purpose/provenance)

explain its issues
- issues w reliability
- analyse through contextual knowledge and provenance ( language / tone / bias / purpose)

Question 6

What are the main things to look at when answering source questions?

Answer 6

• who wrote the source
• when did they write the source
• why did they write the source
• is the source reliable
• is it useful in relation. To the question
• what contextual knowledge supports / opposes what the source suggests