AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
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Answering the ‘Explain …’ question
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AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
Your teacher asks the pupil: ‘Explain why you failed
to finish your homework.’
He answers: ‘My mum was ill.’
That’s not an explanation – it’s a reason.
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Principles
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
An explanation is a series of ideas, joined by the
word ‘so’, which link the reason to the result, thus:
‘My mum was ill so I had to go to hospital with her
so I got home late so I didn’t have time to work so I
failed to finish my homework.’
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Principles
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
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You answer the ‘Explain …’ question
in much the same way!The key to a good explanation is to explain
from the reason RIGHT THROUGH to the result.
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
You are going to get a question which asks you to
explain something, for example:
‘Explain why the Bolsheviks grew in
popularity between March and November
1917.’
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Note that the ‘result’ it is asking you to explain is the Bolsheviks’ popularity.
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
The mark scheme says that this is how you are
going to earn the 6 marks:
• Cite a number of reasons for the stated result.• Explain (with relevant facts) how the reason
produced the result.
Note that you must make sure that you know what result you are trying to explain;
many pupils explain the wrong thing! Click to continue
TIP
‘Why’ needs ‘reasons’ – ‘How’ needs ‘ways’
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
You are advised to spend
10 minutes maximum
on this question.
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AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
Explain why the Bolsheviks grew in popularity
between March and November 1917.Click to
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So, let’s begin …
Can you think of any reasons?
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
Explain why the Bolsheviks grew in popularity
between March and November 1917.
An efficient party
organisation
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They helped defeat Kornilov
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland
They set up Pravda – a propaganda
newspaper
Lenin published the April Theses
People in the towns were
starving
They had a private army – the Red GuardsRussia was
losing the warThey took control
of the Petrograd Soviet
I can think of LOADS!!!
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
I can think of LOADS!!!
Explain why the Bolsheviks grew in popularity
between March and November 1917.
An efficient party
organisation
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They helped defeat Kornilov
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland
They set up Pravda – a propaganda
newspaper
Lenin published the April Theses
People in the towns were
starving
They had a private army – the Red GuardsRussia was
losing the warThey took control
of the Petrograd Soviet
But you only need to think of TWO!
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
Explain why the Bolsheviks grew in popularity
between March and November 1917.Click to
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They set up Pravda – a propaganda
newspaper
Let’s take just one of them …
• Can you think of a fact to go with it?
Smuggled by the Germans, April 1917
• And how did Lenin help to make the Bolsheviks popular?
– Provided the ideas– The April Theses were very popular– Figurehead– Accepted leader
And you’re re
ady to writ
e …
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland
Start off …
The first reason the Bolsheviks
grew in popularity was because …
Explain why the Bolsheviks grew in popularity
between March and November 1917.Click to
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Smuggled by the Germans, April 1917
– Provided the ideas– The April Theses were very popular– Figurehead– Accepted leader
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
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Add the reason …
The first reason the Bolsheviks
grew in popularity was because …
The first reason the Bolsheviks
grew in popularity was because
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland.
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland
Smuggled by the Germans, April 1917
– Provided the ideas– The April Theses were very popular– Figurehead– Accepted leader
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
The first reason the Bolsheviks
grew in popularity was because
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland.
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Add the fact …
The first reason the Bolsheviks
grew in popularity was because
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland (smuggled by the
Germans, April 1917).
Smuggled by the Germans, April 1917
– Provided the ideas– The April Theses were very popular– Figurehead– Accepted leader
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
The first reason the Bolsheviks
grew in popularity was because
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland (smuggled by the
Germans, April 1917).
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Finally, add the explanation …The first reason the Bolsheviks
grew in popularity was because
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland (smuggled by the
Germans, April 1917). This helped
their popularity because Lenin
provided the ideas, especially the
April Theses which were very
popular. He was a prominent
figurehead and the accepted
leader, so that helped their image.
– Provided the ideas– The April Theses were very popular– Figurehead– Accepted leader
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
The first reason the Bolsheviks
grew in popularity was because
Lenin returned to Russia from exile
in Switzerland (smuggled by the
Germans, April 1917). This helped
their popularity because Lenin
provided the ideas, especially the
April Theses which were very
popular. He was a prominent
figurehead and the accepted
leader, so that helped their image.
The second reason the Bolsheviks
grew in popularity was because …
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And now all you need …… is the second reason.
They set up Pravda – a propaganda
newspaper
They had a private army – the Red Guards
(Your teacher might advise you to add a third reason.)
A third reason the Bolsheviks grew
in popularity was because …
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
Write two more paragraphs for your essay,
remembering for each paragraph to:• suggest a reason for the Bolsheviks’
growing popularity
and:•provide a fact to go with it.
Then explain how it made the Bolsheviks
more popular, using the word ‘so’.Click to
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So …
AQA (B) GCSE Modern World History
Unit 2 Depth Study 1 Lesson 2
• suggest at least two reasons for the Bolsheviks’
growing popularity?
• provide facts to go with the suggestion?
Peer-assess each other’s essays. Did they:
• for each reason, give a thorough explanation of how it led the Bolsheviks to become more popular?
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