A focused full-day Modern History intensive for the final weeks before the 2026 HSC. Reconnect Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919–1946, then practise source analysis and extended historical writing across the selected Year 12 topics.
Date
Monday 28 September
Time
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Campus
Macquarie University — room TBC
Availability
28 places left
A real InspirationED workshop
Live teaching, guided exam practice and room to ask questions.
Modern History · Full course intensive
Modern History asks students to investigate the modern world through sources and relevant issues. Strong responses connect the core study and selected topics to historical concepts, perspectives, evidence and sustained judgement.
Best for
Year 12 Modern History students who want sharper source analysis, stronger evidence selection and more controlled timed essays.
Aligned to the 2026 HSC
Modern History Stage 6 Syllabus (2017)
The 2026 HSC Modern History examination is based on the Modern History Stage 6 Syllabus (2017). The 2024 syllabus is implemented from 2027 and is not the 2026 HSC syllabus.
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Per student
$250
28 places left
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The Year 12 course
The day connects the Year 12 course with the examination skills students need to apply it.
HSC core
Investigate power, authority, ideologies, leadership, conflict, social change and competing interpretations.
Key language: power and authority · 1919–1946 · ideologies · leadership · conflict
HSC topic
Connect political, social, economic and cultural developments in one nation to the historical question.
Key language: national studies · political developments · social change · economic change
HSC topic
Analyse the causes, course, experiences and consequences of a selected peace-and-conflict topic.
Key language: peace and conflict · causes · consequences · perspectives
HSC topic
Evaluate change over time using continuity, turning points, causation, consequence and evidence.
Key language: change in the modern world · continuity · turning points · causation
Across the day
Workshop method
Identify the issue, directive verb, source perspective, context and evidence needed before writing.
Workshop method
Attempt source-based questions and extended responses under realistic time pressure.
Practice and feedback
Students work through source-based questions and extended responses. The teacher models how to interpret sources, establish context, address perspectives and sustain a judgement.
Use context, perspective, usefulness and limitations to analyse sources critically.
Build a coherent response that answers the question directly and evaluates relevant evidence.
Included with the workshop
Core and topic reminders, source-analysis frameworks, HSC-style questions, evidence-selection guides and essay planning structures.
Expert HSC educators
Premium take-home resources
Marking insights and exemplars
Schools study different national, peace-and-conflict and change topics. The workshop teaches transferable source, evidence and argument skills.
Yes. It uses the Modern History Stage 6 Syllabus (2017), which remains the syllabus examined for the 2026 HSC.
Year 12 students preparing for their final school assessments and the 2026 HSC examinations.
Bring a laptop or tablet if you use one for study, writing materials, water and lunch. Your workshop resources are provided.
Building, room and arrival instructions are sent by email with the ticket and again before the workshop.
Yes. Add any three workshops in one order and the $75 bundle saving is applied automatically at checkout.
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