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Singapore: From settlement to city-state

• Throughline: How did Singapore develop into what it is today?

• Generative Topic: Growth and Development as a British Settlement, 1819-1942
• Establishment of Singapore as a British trading settlement
• Contributions of the immigrants
• British rule in Singapore before World War II
• Impact of world events before World War II on Singapore
• Industrial Revolution;
  
• the opening of the Suez Canal;
  
• World War I;
  
• Great Depression of 1929

• Understanding Goals:
• Term 3 Week 3
• what was the reasons for the founding of Singapore?
• what was the importance of trade to Singapore?
• Term 3 Week 3-5
• what were the contributions of key personalities and immigrants to the growth and development of Singapore?
• Term 3 Week 6
• what impact did colonial rule have on Singapore?
• how did world events impact on the development of Singapore?

• Performances
• Approach:
  
• Thinking Skills: Evaluating Reliability skills
• NE: We must preserve racial and religious harmony
  
• Activities:
  
• TfU: The Present in the Past
  
• Generative Topic: Contributions of the immigrants
  
• Understanding Goals:
  
• Performances:
• Focus your topic: identifying areas of interests (5)
• Frame your subject: photographing people, places and practises (10)
• Find your caption: conducting oral history interviews (10)
  
• Flickr your picture: sharing your photos (10)
• IT: Attacked! The Japanese Occupation of Singapore (CDROM), WWII: Stories & Archives (CDROM)
  
• Print: Reminiscences of the Straits Settlements through Postcards; Singapore: A Pictorial History, 1819-2000; Secret Societies in Singapore; Singapore's 100 Historic Places
• Assignments
• Workbook pp. 13-16
• Workbook pg. 23-24
  
• Workbook p. 25
• Workbook p. 31 and 32
• Workbook p. 33 and 34
• Workbook p. 41
• Teacher’s Resource p. 4 & 15
  
• Teacher's Resource pp. 15 to 17

• Assessment:
• TfU (40 marks)