Year 9 Assessment

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Year 9 Assessment

• The Emily Davison mystery

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Assessment Objectives

• This assessment tests two National Curriculum
  skills
• Historical Knowledge and Understanding
• Historical Interpretation

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Davison was a martyr to the cause of womens
rights, a visionary!
Are you mad, it was her lack of vision that meant
she walked into a horse! It was an accident man!
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Introduction

• The two old historians want to argue the case of
  Emily Davison but they need a good script. You
  need to create a script that looks at the
  differing interpretations of Davisons death.
  Look at how to achieve the levels and make sure
  you talk about both views. You need to get the
  two old historians to argue with each other in
  your script over which view is right.

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How to get a level four

• You will have identified that there are
  different interpretations and given a little
  explanation but you need to explain evidence to
  support your ideas more effectively.

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Level Four

• Emily Davison did not mean to kill herself,
  evidence to support this interpretation can be
  seen by her purchasing a return ticket and the
  ticket to a suffragette event in the evening.

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How to get a level five

• You will have identified that there are
  different interpretations and given a number of
  developed explanations that explain why the
  evidence is so important.

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Level Five

• Emily Davison did not mean to kill herself,
  evidence to support this interpretation can be
  seen by her purchasing a return ticket and the
  ticket to a suffragette event in the evening.
  This is important because if she was meaning to
  kill herself she would not have bought tickets to
  events in the future.

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How to get a level six

• You will have identified that there are
  different interpretations and given a number of
  detailed and developed explanations. You will
  also have used evidence to support your ideas in
  an effective manner. You will also have shown the
  ability to use analysis such as questioning the
  reliability.

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Level Six

• Emily Davison did not mean to kill herself,
  evidence to support this interpretation can be
  seen by her purchasing a return ticket and the
  ticket to a suffragette event in the evening.
  However this evidence is rather limiting, we
  dont know if she was trying to hide her actions
  or if she planned to commit suicide on the day,
  after she bought the tickets.

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How to get a level seven

• You will have identified that there are
  different interpretations and given a number of
  detailed and developed explanations. You will
  also have used evidence to support your ideas in
  an effective manner. You will also have shown the
  ability to use analysis such as looking at the
  reliability of the evidence presented to you.
  Finally, you will have used wider research to
  look at what other historians think about the
  event to support or go against your views.

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Level Seven

• Same as level six but you will add From my own
  research I found that Davison