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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