📚 Part 1: Planning Your Research

1. Choose your historian focus:

Famous Deaf Australian (e.g., Thomas Pattison, William Thomson)

Australian Indigenous historian

Australian women's rights advocate

Other: ________________________

2. What do you already know about this person?

3. What sources will you use for research? (Check all that apply)

Library books

Online databases

Museum websites

Documentary videos

Family knowledge

4. Write three questions you want to explore about your historian:

Question 1: _________________________________________________

Question 2: _________________________________________________

Question 3: _________________________________________________

🔍 Part 2: Key Information Organiser

5. Historian's full name: ________________________________

6. Life dates (birth and death): _____ / _____ / _______ to _____ / _____ / _______

7. Where were they born and where did they live?

8. What were their main achievements or contributions to history?

9. Why is this person historically significant? How did they impact Australian society?

✅ Part 3: Assessment Preparation Checklist

10. Before your assessment, tick off each area you have researched:

Basic biographical information (name, dates, places)

Key achievements and contributions

Historical significance and impact

Challenges they faced

How they influenced others

Connection to Australian history/culture

11. List your reliable sources (at least 3):

Source 1: ________________________________________________

Source 2: ________________________________________________

Source 3: ________________________________________________

12. One interesting fact about your historian that shows their importance:

Historian Research Preparation Template

Historian Research Preparation Template

📚 Part 1: Planning Your Research

🔍 Part 2: Key Information Organiser

✅ Part 3: Assessment Preparation Checklist

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