This page contains History Grade 10 Annual Teaching Plan (ATP) and Teacher’s Guide for 2024. These Annual Teaching Plans help the History Grade 10 Teachers to teach a standardised curriculum for CAPS, as prescribed by the South African Department of Education. View all Grade 10 ATPs
History Grade 10 Annual Teaching Plan (ATP) 2024
The Annual Teaching Plan is for History Grade 10 and contains a full-year annual teaching plan for Term 1, Term 2, Term 3, and Term 4. The ATPs include weekly lesson activities under relevant topics within a school term. Download the ATPs in pdf format below:
CAPS TOPIC 1: World around 1600:
Any TWO of the following four topics:
Compulsory
Songhai: an African Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries (around 1340 to 1591)
- the Songhai Empire under Sonni Ali: government and society;
- travel and trade in Songhai at the height of its power (Arab, Italian and Jewish merchants at Timbuktu);
- learning and culture; and
- fall of the Empire: Moroccan invasion of 1591.
And
- China: a world power in the 14th and 15th centuries (1368 to 1644):
- the Ming dynasty: government and society; • travel and trade: ship building, navigation (compass), Chinese mariners mapping the world; trade and influence along the Asian sea routes; treasure fleet expeditions of Zheng He from 1405 to 1433; scientific and cultural achievements of the Ming dynasty; and
- China looks inwards after 1433.
OR
India (Mughal) (1526 to 1858):
- the Mughal Empire: government and society;
- trade in the Indian Ocean and Islamic world
- astronomy and technology (seamless celestial globe);
- architecture in the 16th and 17th centuries: the Taj Mahal; and
- Britain and the end of the Mughal Empire.
N.B. There is a choice between Ming China and Mogul India. Songhai is compulsory
More weekly topics are on the documents:
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