This is the 2023/24 Annual Teaching Plan for Grade 11 History. The year covers communism in Russia and capitalism in the USA from 1900 to 1940, ideas of race, nationalisms, and Apartheid South Africa, with a research project and a final exam of two papers.
Each term is set out week by week, with Terms 1 to 3 running 11 weeks and Term 4 running 10 weeks. Each term lists CAPS topics, concepts, source-based and essay skills, values and SBA tasks, with at least three informal tasks per week.
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What the History Grade 11 ATP covers
Term 1
- Revision of source and paragraph skills
- Communism in Russia: revolutions and Lenin
- Stalin, collectivisation and the purges
- Capitalism in the USA and the 1920s boom
- Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
- FDR and the New Deal
- Planning the research project
Formal assessment: Task 1: source-based or essay question on communism in Russia (50). Task 2: standardised test on capitalism in the USA (100).
Term 2
- Ideas of race and eugenics
- Case study: Australia and indigenous Australians
- Case study: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
- What nationalism is
- African and Afrikaner nationalism
- The Middle East: Israel and Palestine
- From Gold Coast to Ghana
Formal assessment: Task 3: research (50). Task 4: mid-year exam (150).
Term 3
- Recovery of Grade 10 content: South African War and Union
- Segregation in the 1920s and 1930s
- The National Party victory of 1948
- How Apartheid differed from segregation
- Legalising Apartheid and creating the Apartheid state
- Laws against multiracial labour, banning of the CPSA
Formal assessment: Task 5: source-based or essay question (50). Task 6: standardised test on Apartheid South Africa (100).
Term 4
- Resistance to Apartheid
- Mass mobilisation and alliances
- Sharpeville massacre and its impact
- Rivonia Trial and its consequences
- Revision and application of skills
Formal assessment: Final exam: two papers of 150 marks each, 3 hours each.
Source: Department of Basic Education, 2023/24 Annual Teaching Plans. DBE Circular S19 of 2025 keeps the 2023/24 ATPs in use, with some exclusions, so check with your school or district for any changes.