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The marking scheme is set out in the syllabus. http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/syllabus2000_listh.html#hindic Page 33.

>>>You won't need to make any distinction in the exam. Doesn't that depend on the question? If the question was on the Julio-Claudian succession, for example, detail such as this could lift your mark. It could be useful also in the Agrippina/Personality question too if that was on family...

Nero's original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, and his father was Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. The Domitii Ahenobarbi were a distinguished plebeian family with at least seven consulships to their credit (according to Suetonius' Life of Nero), promoted to patrician rank by Octavian around...

Tiberius and Claudius are Claudians, though Claudius's maternal grandmother (Antonia's mother) was Octavia, Augustus's sister. Gaius (Caligula) has Julian blood (eg from his mother Agrippina the Elder, Julia's daughter, Augustus's grand daughter) and Claudian blood (from his dad Germanicus, son...

Have a look at this site - it might help: http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/syll/syll-metahistory.html Good luck!

The way I read this, I think a major point of Hayden White is that "History" is a narrative, and therefore a distortion of reality. Historians force their material into the mould of one of these types of emplotment - but that process in itself is a falsifying or at least shaping of whatever...

Chairman Mao was quoting Lao-Tse!

Well how about getting started? As Chairman Mao says, "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." You can do it. Good luck!

There's a discussion further down the page at "Synopsis - raves? rants?" http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=36484

If you email me at i_caratacus(at)yahoodotcomdotau (but with the correct symbols in place for an email address) I will send you some Word files with some info on the motivation debate and changing interpretations of the crusades. You will need MS Word but you can probably access that at school...

Send me an email here: i_caratacus(at)yahoo.com.au [write @ for (at)] & I will send you some Word files which deal with various aspects of the debates including Mellor & Syme (plus some others you haven't mentioned). These notes are mostly quotes from each historian which relate to...

Which debates & which historians on Tacitus have you done?

Agreed silvermoon that normal practice is + or - 10% of the set word count ie here 2250 - 2750 words. And indeed: it's far better to be over & have to condense, than to be under & have to waffle up.

This is a cut and paste from the History Extension syllabus under the heading of "Course Prescriptions": It will be in written form and may be accompanied by appropriate graphic texts only as appendices (apart from short explanatory captions). The essay must not exceed 2,500 words. The...

The whole point of internal marking is that the BOS doesn't have to hire markers & spend money marking it.

Yes, "synopses" - from Greek - like thesis/theses.

Minoan - I'd love to see how a matriarchy works!

>>I'm kind of annoyed at the teachers of those who have been given the holidays to do it, it seems unfair on people like the girls in my class who have had no sleep over it. There is no set date that teachers have to have it done by (except for whatever their school decides is the date ALL...

LOL! " I am well aware that I have never written anything but fictions." (Foucault 1980) Just tell the teacher Foucault said it was OK.

LOL! So if yer a trendy post-modernist HSC student a la Foucault or Reynolds etc then ya just make up your sources & footnotes for yer IRP but if yer a grumpy traditionalist like Windschuttle then yer really scrupulous about your citations. Practical Historiography 101!