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IB Paper 1: Rights and Protest

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Designed specifically for IB History teachers and students worldwide.

The following materials are designed to provide teachers and students with practice sourcework exercises for the "Rights and Protest" topic in the IB History examination.

Student-friendly Sourcework Rubric

This rubric provides a student-friendly mark scheme and tips for structuring each of the answers for the IB Sourcework Paper. For example:

[Sourcework Rubric]

Apartheid South Africa [click here for main resource page]

Why did the National Party with the 1948 election in South Africa?
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

Were the Sophiatown removals a racist attack on a defenceless population?
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

Was the Sharpeville Massacre an accident or a planned attack?
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

Why was there so little effective resistance to the Sophiatown evictions?
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

How important was the role of women in the anti-Apartheid movement?
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

Did Mandela's decision to abandon nonviolence do more harm than good to the anti-apartheid resistance movement?
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

How Significant was the role of International Protest and Intervention in the Anti-Apartheid Movement?
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

Civil Rights Movement [click here for main resource page]

Evaluate the significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in advancing the cause of civil rights.
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

How decisive was the role of Martin Luther King in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

Assess President Kennedy's handling of the James Meredith controversy at "Ole Miss"
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

Analyse the reasons why the Civil Rights Act did not enjoy universal support.
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

Evaluate the success of the Selma Campaign.
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

Evaluate the role of women in the Civil Rights Movement.
[Sample Paper | Model Answers]

 

 


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