8. Decimate
• Punishment in the Roman Army
– One soldier out of every ten was selected by lot
and then beaten to death by the other nine
• NOT a general word for defeat
9. WE ALL NEED TO LEARN FROM THIS
• Be organised – know dates
• Be ready – bring what is needed to class
• Be prepared – do required
work/revision by the due dates
• Follow instructions
• Ask for help – well before the
due date
10. Topic Sentences
• Example – Battle of Salamis – para on
importance of Geography
• Geography was an important factor in the
Battle of Salamis.
OR
• Geography was used by the Greeks to
maximum advantage at Salamis.
11. Practice Topic Sentences
• Write/Read/Swap/Re-write
• Watch out for good topic sentences in your
general reading
• Note them down
12. Organising your evidence
• Step 3 on planning sheet
• Dot points are fine
• Keep carrying references forward
13. Referencing
• In-text referencing used in essays
• Format is (Author, date of publication, page)
• Purpose is know where
information came from
and to give credit to
author
14. Room for Improvement
• Short sentences for clear meaning
• No “I” “we” “our” (first person)
statements in formal history essays
• Capital letters on proper
nouns/adjectives – Greek, Persian,
Australian
• Practice using correct capitalisation –
always!
15. Room for Improvement (contd.)
• Xerxes Xerxes’ army, troops, ships, victory
• Jesus Jesus’ miracles
• James James’ good work
• Too = as well
• Handwriting
16. Spelling
• Spelling helps your meaning be to be
clear
• Use the space provided to record the
correct spelling of tricky words
–Bias, biased
–General
–Historians, history
–Opponent
–Enemies
