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Anglican High School
Secondary 3 - Social Studies
June Holiday Assignment: Creating Source-Based Questions and
Answer Key
Instructions:
1. Please get into groups of 3-4.
2. Use the following sources to create 3 source- based questions and an
answer key (LORMS for each question).
3. The questions must include 3 out of the 4 sbq skills - inference,
compare & contrast, reliability and usefulness. (compulsory)
4. You are allowed to use all the sources or you may want to substitute
them with other relevant sources. However, do note that textual
sources used should not be more than 120 words and the source of
text or picture should be acknowledged.
5. You may also question and change the issue if you thought of a better
one. (optional)
6. Please type your questions and answer key using ARIAL font size 12.
Please indicate names of group members, index numbers and class
clearly.
7. Submission of Hardcopy:Term 3 Lesson 1 (Please save a softcopy of
your assignment for future reference.)
8. This assignment will make up 15% of your continual assessment.
9. Please contact your respective SS teacher for clarification.
10. Have fun and put on your thinking caps!
ISSUE: How far was religion the cause of conflict in Northern
Ireland?
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Nowadays the people of Northern Ireland live together in relative peace.
However, for around thirty years from the late 1960s onwards, there was
continuous violence between the Protestant majority, which wanted to remain
part of the United Kingdom, and the Catholic minority, which saw itself as
Irish. Even though Protestants and Catholics all believe in the same Christian
God, differences in how they interpret the Christian religion have made them
see themselves as two distinct communities. But how far was religion the
cause of the conflict in Northern Ireland? Study the following sources to find
out.
Source 1: From an interview with a Catholic civil rights campaigner describing
life in the 1960s in the Northern Ireland town where he grew up.
Most of the good shops were owned by Protestants. The worst farms were
in the mountain areas, and they were Catholic farms. There were two
factories in town where we could be employed as workers, but all the
managers were Protestants. There were two schools, one Catholic and one
Protestant. Both were good schools, but the difference was that everyone
knew that we would not get the good jobs once our education was finished.
However, there were exceptions. Among lawyers and doctors, there were
some from both sides to serve their own communities. These professional
people could mix together. It was a class thing. They could meet at golf
club and there was no discrimination.
Source 2: From an interview with a Catholic historian who lived in Northern
Ireland as a child.
Though people, Protestant and Catholic, lived side by side, there was very
little contact between us. You learned very quickly from the other children
at school that we Catholics could not get jobs in a whole range of
occupations. There was no point in applying for jobs in local government or
within the Northern Ireland civil service for example. Nor in a whole lot of
private employments, the shipyard and the aircraft factory and so forth.
Source 3: From a newspaper interview given by the Protestant Prime Minister
of Northern Ireland, May 1969.
It is hard to explain to Protestants that if you give Roman Catholics a good
job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, because they will see
neighbours with cars and with television sets. But if a Roman Catholics is
jobless, and lives in the most ghastly slum, he will want to survive on
welfare payments. If you treat Roman Catholics with consideration and
kindness, they will live like Protestants in spite of their beliefs.
Source 4: From a book written by an English sociologist who lived in a
Catholic area in Northern Ireland during 1972-3.
I was hit in the ribs with a rifle and two soldiers asked me if I was in the
IRA. I said I was not and they replied, 'Well, why don't you join so that we
can shoot you.' The friend I was living with was beaten up in the back of a
British armoured vehicle by a soldier. After being interrogated and cleared
he was taken back home by the same soldier who apologised. 'I am sorry
about that, we do it to everyone. People soon start talking after we soften
them up.'
Source 5: A cartoon about Northern Ireland published in a British newspaper
in 1969. It shows two British soldiers in an area devastated by
rioting between Protestants and Catholics. One says to the other,
'Thank goodness they all believe in the same God.'
Acknowledgement: Specimen Paper for 'O' Level 2008
Tips on how to excel this assignment.
Ascertain your PURPOSE.
Purpose is your goal, your objective and what you are trying to accomplish at the end
of this task.
 What is your, my, their purpose in doing________?
 What is the objective of this task?
 How are you going to go about completing this task?
Checklist on how to create good questions:
The question should be clear and precise enough to productively guide thinking.
 What important questions are embedded in the issue?
 Is there a better way to put the question?
 Is this question clear? Is it too complex?
 How do readers see the question?
 What kind of question is this? Inference? Comparison? Reliability?
Checklist on how to provide good answer key:
 What is the question we are trying to answer?
 What would we have to do to solve this question?
 Are our answers logical?
 Are there other conclusions/solutions we should consider?
 What are we basing our points on? Do our explanations make sense?