Sample+Extended+Essays+in+History

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2013 Essays
1. GQ: "What role did America's strategy of containment play in Southeast Asia from 1947-1990? Grade: 9/36, "D"
 * [[file:US containment strategy in SW Asia.pdf]]

2. GQ: "What role did Italian society have in the Risorgimento?" Grade: 20/36, "C"
 * [[file:Role of italian society in Risorgimento.pdf]]

3. GQ: "What role did economics play in the unification of Germany from 1834 to 1871?" Grade: 36/36, "A"
 * [[file:Role of economics in German unification.pdf]]

2012 Essays
1. GQ: "Was the Balfour Declaration an incautious and ambiguous work that harmed Arab-Israeli relations in the postwar world?" Grade: 16/36, "C" (but at the bottom of the "C" range, 16-22) 2. GQ: "Was the sinking of the Lusitania justified when seen through the scope of WW I?" Grade: 25/36, "B" 3. GQ: "To what extent did Belgian collaboration with Germany's occupation during WW 2 differ between Walloon and Flemish Belgium?" Grade: 26/36, "B" 4. GQ: "Would the Bolsheviks have been able to ascend to power in Russia without WW I?" Grade: 29/36, "A" (although at the lower bound of the "A "range: 29-36) 5. GQ: "To what extent was the role of the Danish people important in saving Denmark's Jews in 1943?" Grade: 33/36, "A"
 * [[file:EE Exemplars-History-1205-1a.pdf]]
 * [[file:EE Exemplars-History-1205-1c.pdf]]
 * [[file:EE Exemplars-History-1205-1d.pdf]]
 * [[file:EE Exemplars-History-1205-1e.pdf]]
 * [[file:EE Exemplars-History-1205-1g.pdf]]

2009 Essays
1. GQ: "Why was the spread of vaccination so rapid in the early 1800s despite the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars?" Grade" 33/36, "A" 2. GQ: "What effect did the Chinese Cultural Revolution have on its foreign relations?" Grade: 26/36, "B" 3. GQ: "What was the role of the Holocaust on the development of human rights?" Grade: 11/36, "D" 4. GQ: "To what extent did the de-nuclearization of the Ukraine affect its relations with the USSR?" Grade: 17/36, "C"
 * [[file:Spread of vaccination in 1800s.pdf.pdf]]
 * [[file:Effect of Cultural Revln on foreign relns.pdf]]
 * [[file:Role of Holocaust on dev of Dec. Human RIghts.pdf]]
 * [[file:De-nuclearization of Ukraine.pdf]]

2004 Essays (used a somewhat different rubric than has been used since 2008)
1. GQ: "Why does the role of women change in Western society in the 1960s? Examples: US and UK" Grade: 13/36 2. GQ: "Why the 1956 Suez crisis was a turning point for UK and French foreign policy?" Grade: 33/36 3. GQ: "Why was Canadian Japanese detainment during WW 2 arguably more severe than the American?" Grade: 27/36
 * [[file:EE Exemplars-History-1.pdf]] [[file:EE Exemplars-History-1-MS.pdf]]
 * [[file:EE Exemplars-History-2.pdf]] [[file:EE Exemplars-History-2-MS.pdf]]
 * [[file:EE Exemplars-History-3.pdf]] [[file:EE Exemplars-History-3-MS.pdf]]

Student work from the International School of Toulouse
1. GQ: "How decisive was Spain's Contribution to the Outcome of World War Two?" Grade: "A"
 * [[file:How decisive were Spanish in WW2.pdf]]

2. GQ: "How reliable is Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' as evidence of 18th century London?" Grade: "A"
 * [[file:How reliable was Hogarth.pdf]]

Student work from the Busan International Foreign School
1. GQ: "To what extent did Nazi anti-Semitism stem from historical European anti-Semitism?" Grade: "A" 2. Other essays available through the BIFS Many of these include the IB examiners' marksheets.
 * 1) [[file:Did Holocaust stem from anti-semitism.pdf]]

Student Work at WFS
Here are some sample Extended Essays written by WFS students, including the grading sheet used by IBO examiners to state the grades awarded, per section.