Saturday, January 26, 2008

SEA4.1.5 Constitutional Development in Singapore

Throughline: The Emergence of Southeast Asia

Topic: Singapore's Constitutional Development 1945-1955
Essential Question: How did Singapore progress towards independence?
  • Understanding Goals:
    • Why was Singapore excluded from the Malayan Union?
      • Strategic considerations
      • Race demographics
    • Why was the Rendel's Commission set up?
      • Decolonisation
      • results of 1948 & 1951 Legislative Assembly Elections
    • Why did Singapore Labour Front government fail in its London Talks?
      • Results of 1955 Elections
      • Communism in Singapore
  • Performance:
    • Identify the stages of the political history of Singapore
    • Draw a parallel timeline of the history of Malaya & Singapore
  • Assessment:
    • SBQ: David Marshall