1. To develop source analysis skills.
Source Skills
Learning Objectives:
To develop source analysis skills.
To understand how to answer source-based exam questions on the Korean War.

2. Analysing Cartoons
Analysing cartoons is a key skill in History. There are some key questions you need to ask when working with cartoons:
What does the cartoon show?
Where was it made?
Who was it aimed at?
Why was it made?
How does it link to your own knowledge?
Study the above cartoon and work in pairs to come up with detailed answers to the questions.

3. A poster published in China in 1951
A poster published in China in It says ‘Resist US and Support Korea to Save Neighbours – Ourselves.’
Task 1:
Stick your copy of the cartoon into your book.
Annotate it to show the key features of the source.
Your labels need to explain as many features as possible. You also need to make links to your own knowledge.

4. Developing Source Analysis Skills
Historians also have to consider how useful sources are to them.
To work out a source’s utility (how useful it is), we have to look at some key areas:
What does the source tell us? How does it agree with our own knowledge?
What doesn’t the source tell us? Use own knowledge to work out what is missing.
What is the source’s purpose (why was it made)?
What is the source’s provenance (who made it, when and where)?
How reliable is the source? (How trustworthy is it?)
Our answers to these questions then allow us to make a judgement about whether a source is very useful, totally useless, or somewhere in between.
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Have they stated if they trust the source?
Have they explained their decision?
Have they linked together the purpose/provenance of the source?
Have they linked in own knowledge to support their explanation?
Task:
Note down the key things to ask when working out how useful a source is.

5. Analysis Time: Source A
‘Heavily laden U.S. Marines, in one of the most technically difficult amphibious landings in history, stormed at sunset today over a ten-foot sea wall in the heart of the port of Inchon and within an hour had taken three commanding hills in the city.
I was in the fifth wave that hit "Red Beach," which in reality was a rough, vertical pile of stones over which the first assault troops had to scramble with the aid of improvised landing ladders topped with steel hooks.
Despite a deadly and steady pounding from naval guns and airplanes, enough North Koreans remained alive close to
the beach to harass us with small-arms and mortar fire. They even hurled hand grenades down at us as we crouched in
trenches.’
A report by journalist Marguerite Higgins for the New York Tribune, 18th September Women were banned from front-line reporting but she had received special permission from General MacArthur.
Task:
You need to decide how useful this is to an historian studying the Inchon Landings.
Work your way through the key questions and then make an overall judgement.

6. Analysis Time: Source B
Task:
You need to decide how useful this is to an historian studying the Inchon Landings.
Work your way through the key questions and then make an overall judgement.
A photo US soldiers landing at Inchon. The photo is from the United States Marine Corps archive.

7. Exam Question
Study sources A and B. How useful are they to a historian studying the Inchon Landings?
Explain your answer using source A and B and your contextual knowledge.
12 marks
How could you structure your answer?

8. Exam Question
Study sources A and B. How useful are they to a historian studying the Inchon Landings?
Explain your answer using source A and B and your contextual knowledge.
You would have about 15 minutes to answer this question.
Aim to write three paragraphs.
P1 – Assess how useful Source A is. Assess its contents, purpose, provenance and reliability. Talk about strengths and weaknesses (what it is missing/exaggerating). Make links to your own knowledge.
P2 – Do the same but for Source B.
P3 – Conclusion – answer the question and say how useful the two sources are when taken together.
Top Tip
As you go along, make comparisons between the sources and show how they agree or disagree with each other.

9. To Finish…
A recent cartoon about North Korea…