Making Explanations and Generalisations

What’s the better generalisation?

After the sale slaves were immediately sent to work on plantations.

Slavery was horrific for most slaves, though a few led comfortable lives.

What’s the better generalisation?

House slaves worked inside.

Children and women usually asked to do less hard work than the male slaves.

What’s the better generalisation?

Many slaves suffered from poor health, as a result of hard work and poor diet.

There are many different types of slave.

Explanations and Generalisations • • • • Try to set out the causes, effects, importance, similarities or differences, or meaning of events or patterns of events Use qualifying words like ‘usually’, ‘often’, or ‘sometimes’.

Avoid hyperbole Can be supported by the evidence.