1. Name:………………………………………………………….
Teacher:……………………………………………………….
Date Task 1 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Date Task 2 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Level 4 and 5
Key Stage 3-Year 9
History Homework Booklet
Term 5: What difficult decisions did the leaders face
during WWII?
Your Task: During World War Two people expected cities to be
bombed, as enemy planes tried to destroy factories. But bombs
would hit homes and schools too, so children would be in danger. The
government tried at the start of the war to 'empty the cities' of
children and mothers. This was 'evacuation', to protect them from air
raids. The plan was put into action in September 1939. About
800,000 children left their homes. However, many returned home
after a few weeks. Others stayed in the countryside for the rest of the
war.
Historians use sources to find out information out about the past and
they are a key feature of studying history, especially at GCSE. When
historians look at sources they have to think carefully about how
useful the sources are and how they reliable they are. This means
they have to think about the following when they are deciding how
trustworthy a source is:
• Who wrote it?
• What is it?
• When was it written? Were they there?
• Why was it written? Are they trying to
record information or are they just
recoding what actually happened for their
own records/diary?
• Can you trust what is said or does the
person have a reason to lie about events?

2. Evacuees at
Snow Hill
station 1940
Source A
Propaganda poster
produced by the British
Government in 1940
Source B
1.What can you learn form Source A about evacuation?
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2. What can you learn from Source B about evacuation?
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3. Why did the Government want to evacuate the cities?
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Task 1

3. 4. How useful is Source B as evidence of Evacuation during WWII?
REMEMBER TO COVER ALL OF THE POINTS ON THE FRONT OF THIS
BOOKLET
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Task 2

4. Key Stage 3- Year 9 History Homework
Term 5- What difficult decisions did the leaders face during WWII?
Name:
These grades are
recorded in GO.
Current Grade:
Poor/ Satisfactory/ Good/ Excellent
What you did well:
You have made excellent judgements
using sources and have explained
them well.
You have made excellent judgements
using sources.
You make good judgements about
how useful the source is.
You have picked out good information
from sources.
You have picked out some information
from sources.
Your spelling, punctuation, and
grammar in this work is excellent.
Your work is very well presented.
Your work shows excellent effort.
Your work shows some good effort.
Targets to improve further:
You need to give more detail when
explaining what you have found out
from the sources.
You need to give evidence from the
source to support your points.
You need to cover more points to
explain how useful a source is.
You need to think about what the
source tells you but does not actually
say.
You need to explain the judgements
that you make from sources.
You need to read sources more
carefully.
Take more care with your spelling,
punctuation and grammar.
Take more care with the presentation
of your work.
Your work shows it would benefit
from more effort.
Student Response
Note here anything you are not sure about:
Miss Limm