History and Memory
In your responding and composing, you must consider The Fiftieth Gate (prescribed text) and other texts which explore the relationships between individual memory and documented events.
You will analyse and evaluate the interplay of
personal experience, memory and documented evidence to broaden your understanding of how history and personal history are shaped and represented.
You will analyse and evaluate the interplay of
personal experience, memory and documented evidence to broaden your understanding of how history and personal history are shaped and represented.
Memory
Our ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences.
Unreliable and selective; altered by experiences, such as trauma
Process by which we make sense of our lives
Cultural and personal history
'Stories are the lifeblood of a nation’ Garth Boomer.
Memories are vital to our understanding of the past.
Most people derive their values, their sense of justice and sense of identity in this world, from memories of past events, situations and relationships with others.
Unreliable and selective; altered by experiences, such as trauma
Process by which we make sense of our lives
Cultural and personal history
'Stories are the lifeblood of a nation’ Garth Boomer.
Memories are vital to our understanding of the past.
Most people derive their values, their sense of justice and sense of identity in this world, from memories of past events, situations and relationships with others.
History
Documented events
History according to Hutchenson is faction or His/tory. It must always be questioned and examined to uncover who recorded the history and in what context.
Unreliable and selective
George Orwell -1984: “Who controls the past … controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
History according to Hutchenson is faction or His/tory. It must always be questioned and examined to uncover who recorded the history and in what context.
Unreliable and selective
George Orwell -1984: “Who controls the past … controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”