HISTORY AND POLITICAL
EDUCATION
HOLIDAY PACKAGE
(SCENARIOS HANDBOOK)
BY
MR. SSERUNKUUMA MUZAFARU
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Hi dear students, the purpose of this holiday package is to help you stay busy and
keep learning ,please do it carefully and do your best. Try to finish all the work it
will help you remember what we studied and prepare for next term. Do this work
behind your history book or if you can get another book for revision it will be
best. You will hand in this work at the beginning of the term. I believe in you, use
this holiday to grow your knowledge.
ITEM 1:
David and his family are living in Zimbabwe . They are planning to visit
Uganda in two weeks’ time as tourists but they are yet to decide which
places to visit exactly. David’s younger brother Austin, suggests they
visit a site with “unique ancient rock paintings”, and another site with a
“mythical 500 year old tree” where miracles happen which his teacher
told him about. However David objects suggesting they instead visit
another interesting place where “Kings of the largest kingdom in
Uganda are buried”, while their father opposes them proposing
another site “famous for having been the capital city of “an ancient
kingdom of magical people”.
TASK:
Identify and write brief notes about the historical sites talked about in
the above scenario, and show their benefits to Uganda.
ITEM 2:
One evening, as you are going back home from school, you see a
crowd of people converged to see a fight which had erupted between
two men. When you come closer you realizes that one is a pastor and
another is a scientist and that the fight has erupted from a heated
debate between the two men about how people came into existence.
The pastor had stated that God created man “out of dust”, well as the
scientist had objected and saying man instead evolved from “baboons
and monkeys”, which had annoyed the pastor who jumped over him
with rage hence starting the fight. By coincidence, people see you in a
school uniform and ask you to give your opinion about the issue.
TASK:
AS a student of History and political education, highlight about the issue
above in an essay
ITEM 3:
Recently, the ministry of education and sports announced their
intention of abolishing the study of history and political education. This
is because the government wants to promote science subjects like
Biology, Chemistry, physics and Math due to the fact that these
subjects are relevant to rapidly changing modern world which require
technology and practical problem solving , unlike history which is based
on past events . Eventually, a large conference has been organized to
debate about the issue and all schools have been asked to send
representatives.
TASK:
Imagine that your school has selected you to represent it to the
conference to convince the ministry not to abolish history and political
education, write an essay expressing your views.
Item 4:
During one of the history lessons in your class, your history teacher
played for you a documentary about how humans spread across the
world. One part of the film says all modern humans came from Africa
and spread to other places . Another part shows how humans in
different parts of the world slowly changed over time but stayed
connected.
Task:
How do you understand the two ideas in the film, and how are they
different?
item 5:
During a school exchange visit, students from Buganda and karamoja
met for a cultural discussion. One student from Buganda proudly
explained how their ancestors had a kabaka (king), chiefs, royal drums
and a large palace of Mengo. A student from karamoja listened quietly,
and then said, “We also had leaders but we did not have kings and
palaces. Our leaders made decisions together under a big tree” Some
students got confused and one of them asked ‘ “So, does that mean
that some societies had no government?”
Task:
Using you knowledge of history and political education, highlight the
students of the types of governance talked about in the scenario,
showing their differences.
Item 6:
Busia is a busy trading center near the Uganda – Kenyan border, trucks
carrying goods like soap, sugar, clothes from as far as Mombasa across
the border everyday. One day students from Unity high school made a
study trip to this center and when they saw a long queue of trucks
crossing, their teacher said “What you see today is not new, Long ago,
our ancestors traded salt, iron, and even ivory across long distances,
from here to the coast” The students got confused said, “But how can
trade from hundred years ago be connected to what we see now?
Task:
In a detailed essay, show the students the connections between the
trades talked about in the scenario above.
Item 7:
During one of the history lessons in your class, your teacher instructed
you to act out a play about visitors who came from far away by boat
carrying crosses, books and strange tools . In this play, the visitors say,
they have come to “help” but they also ask for land, gold and people to
work for them with out pay. After the play, your teacher asked, “Who
where these people? And why did they come to east Africa?”
Task:
In a detailed essay, give responses for the teacher’s question.
