We follow the Berlin curriculum which covers the following topics:

Themes and content	Grade
Overview: Orientation in time Period specialisation: Age of revolutions (approx. 1750 - 1900) Elective modules, e.g: Jews, Christians and Muslims Steps towards modern democracy	7/8
Democracy and dictatorship The Cold War:  The Bipolar World and Germany after 1945 Electives: e.g.: The year 1917 Germany and its neighbours	9/10

In the upper school the Berlin curriculum  covers the following themes:

Themes and Content	Semester
The foundations of the modern world in the ancient period and the middle ages.	Q1
The development of modern state and social structures from the early modern period to the 19th century.	Q2
The modern world: democracy and dictatorship.	Q3
The bipolar world after 1945.	Q4

 

In history lessons, students acquire the following key competences:

- methodological skills: being able to analyse and interpret historical events, processes, structures and controversies in a problem- and criteria-oriented manner, developing their own questions, reflecting on their own methodological approach and their own learning processes, presenting the results of their own work in a way that is appropriate to the situation and subject matter

- historical analysis and judgement skills: analyse historical events, structures and the actions of historical actors in terms of their location and evaluate and judge them in a reflected and criteria-oriented manner

- historical-political ability to act: be able to use history to form reflected and rational judgements, to form individual identities and to take meaningful action