November Blog: Armistice Day
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Armistice Day
Armistice Day is a significant day in the school calender; it gives us the opportunity to remember the lives lost and sacrifices made in previous wars; as well as remembering the conflicts that are currently ongoing. It also gives IBDP students the chance to share their knowledge of this topic with the rest of the school via assemblies and/or displays.
The First World War is starting point for discussing the significance of this day and there are many different themes that can be explored in discussing this war with students. This PPT gives some suggestions of content and video clips that could be used in an Assembly:
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The video links for the videos in the PPT above are:
2024 is also a key year for remembering momentous battles of the Second World War:
The British Legion site has focused on the Battles of Kohima and Imphal for 2024 Remembrance:
Battles of Kohima and Imphal (The Royal British Legion)
Find out how the British, Indian, Gurkha, and African troops along with local tribes, changed the direction of the war in SE Asia.
The BBC site also has Assembly resources that can be used to discuss both the First World War and Second World War:
Armistice Day also gives the chance to talk about ongoing conflicts - Ukraine and Gaza being the most prominent at the moment - and to remember soldiers and civilians who have died, been injured, or are still caught up in these wars.
This excellent CFR site shows where conflicts are ongoing and provides background and analysis on each one:
Podcasts
Linked to the theme of war, the historian Timothy Snyder has recently done an interview on the Podcast 'Leading' (with Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart who we have previously mentioned in the context of one of our favourite podcasts The Rest is Politics).
Timothy Snyder is author of Bloodlands which is an excellent analysis on the deliberate mass murder of civilians by Hitler and Stalin between 1930 and 1945 in Central and Eastern Europe.
Another of his books is On Tyranny which we have mentioned before on this blog as a great read for IBDP History students; it analyses parallels between the 1930s and today's world (written in 2017 during the first Trump presidency).
In this podcast Snyder picks up this theme of 'echos' with the past in current politics. He also discusses Ukraine (a key focus of his book Bloodlands) and how it will be impacted by the US Election. A really interesting listen weaving together history and current day politics.
Timothy Snyder: How will the US election result impact Ukraine? (Apple Podcasts)
Podcast Episode · Leading · 28/10/2024 · 58m
Site update
For each element of the DP examination, we are now adding a FAQ page which will hopefully will help to provide answers to the more common questions that you have about the course and how it is examined. These are already up for Papers 1 - 3 (see the drop down menu for each paper).
And the FAQ pages for the IA and EE will be up later this week!
This is the FAQ page for Paper 3
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