Teacher-only planning companion for Deep Primary Source Analysis Template. Use this page when students need a source-analysis process strong enough to feed directly into essays, seminars, or assessment-grade historical writing.
Senior source work should produce usable thinking, not just dense note-making. Students should leave this template with a clear historical judgement, a sense of the source’s limits, and a writing direction they can act on.
Interpreting past experiences, decisions, and actions using historical evidence and taking account of context, values, and the information available at the time.
The template requires provenance, context, perspective, corroboration, and final judgement, which are core historical inquiry moves rather than surface comprehension tasks.
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-ANZH-D1`.
Examining literary, historical, cultural, and social context and using evidence from a text to support conclusions about purpose and meaning.
The senior prompt set supports Phase 4 English by pushing students to interpret perspective, omission, and meaning rather than just identify content.
Te Mātaiaho English `ENGLISH-18e4b01dbf`.
Senior Aotearoa inquiry should help students test how archives, power, translation, and mātauranga Māori shape what counts as historical knowledge.
Pair official sources with Māori-led voices wherever possible and make corroboration a real move, not a decorative question at the end.
Best used before counter-narrative writing, seminars, or source-based assessments.
Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum. Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2021). Te Mātaiaho: The Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum. Ministry of Education.
Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. (2021). Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners. Teaching Council.