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The Past Today Skills Book


No. of pages 256

Published: 2015

Great for age 12-18 years

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The Past Today Skills & Resources together with The Past Today textbook provides students with all they need to succeed in Junior Certificate History. Tracks the Junior Certificate syllabus through The Past Today textbook chapter by chapter. Fosters literacy, numeracy, source analysis and other historical skills by the imaginative use of documents, pictures,statistics, graphs and charts Includes hundreds of up-to-date questions which promote active learning, enhance skills and reinforce knowledge Key ideas at the start of each topic are ideal for easy revision Focus Tasks develop research skills and deepen understanding of historical events Promotes the idea of the student as an historian Online testing for homework and revision for The Past Today available on eTest.ie

 

 

There are 256 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2015 by Gill .

Dermot Lucey teaches history at Ballincollig Community School, Cork. He has also written Modern Europe and the Wider World for Leaving Certificate and The Past Today for Junior Certificate.