This guide supports your assessment tasks' Outcomes:
HT4-7 Identifies and describes different contexts, perspectives and interpretations of the past
HT4-8 Locates, selects and organises information from sources to develop an historical inquiry
HT4-10 Selects and uses appropriate oral, written, visual and digital forms to communicate about the past
This guide supports the criteria in the:
Finding sources for panels
Evaluation of sources to identify source information
Creation of citations and a Bibliography using APA 7th edition style and the College's citation tool, Citeweb
Contact the College's Teacher Librarian, Mrs Keighery.
1. Using the built-in Cite tool I created the APA citation:
2. I have the citation for my Bibliography. However, I'm not sure when the image was created. I used Google image search, https://images.google.com/ to find out more information about the image.
I found out this information about this source.
Greco-Persian Wars (499-449 B.C.) Battle of Salamis. 480 BC. Illustration by William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1888-1965). Signed W.S. Bylityilis.
This illustration is a secondary source as it was created in over 2000 years after the battle by an English artist when Queen Victoria reigned. In Victorian England there was great interest in the Classical past and many artworks ( paintings and sculptures) created in VIctorian England capture this history re-imagined in heroic and idealised ways. As the illustration was created in this era it is useful in showing the context, scale and drama of the event, as well as examples of weaponry. However, the reliability of this source can be questioned as it is an artistic representation composed a long time after the event. In fact, a book in our library confirmed that the sails shown in this picture are anachronistic. The sails depicted were not used in 480 BC.
**When you're at home, access Explora using the Senior Library Canvas.
Ideally, your search for sources should involve a range of source types including secondary sources such as books. In this selection of books on display in our library, you'll find information on the Battles of Salamis or Thermopylae.
As well as books with specific information, such as the page above on the trireme.
Use WIkimedia Commons for images as it's easy to check information ( author and date) about your source.
Get some ideas or sources for your Virtual Museum from the British Museum.
Herodotus wrote "Histories" in the second half of the fifth century B.C., according to the British Library. It is the world's first known historical narrative, which describes several historical events, including the Greo-Persian Wars of 480 BC.
Here's what he wrote about the Battle of Thermopylae, courtesy of the LatinLibrary (citation below)
Herodotus.(written between 426 and 415 BCE) Histories, Book 7 paragraphs 198-238. [Online document]. Latin Library. http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/historians/herod/herodotus11.html