What can be learnt from the two sources (4 marks)
This type of question is about being able to understand and extract information from two sources from the period being studied. You should use both sources and write roughly the same amount for each one. Look very carefully at the content of the sources.
Example:
What can be learnt from Sources A and B about the theatre in Elizabethan times?
Source A
There are four theatres in London of beauty which have various names. In them a different play is presented to the public every day. Of all the theatres, the largest is the Swan; it has space for three thousand persons and is built of flint stones supported by wooden columns, painted to look like marble. It looks like a Roman building.
A description of Elizabethan theatres, written by Johannes de Witt, a Dutch visitor to England (1596)
Source B
Drawing of the Swan Theatre, Bankside, London, 1596
(Text reproduced by permission of WJEC)
Tips:
- Make sure you write about both sources.
- Extract information from both sources, eg Source A shows that the Elizabethan theatre was popular; Source B shows that theatres in the Elizabethan period were open to the elements.
- Write approximately the same amount for each source.