HSY1511
ASSIGNMENT 4 2025 (PORTFOLIO)
DUE 8 MAY 2025
SEMESTER 1 2025
,HSY1511 Semester 1 2025: Assessment 4
HSY1511 Portfolio
What is a Portfolio?
A portfolio is a collection of work that demonstrates your skills, competencies, and
achievements over time. In the context of HSY1511, the Portfolio will encompass your
quiz assessment, essay planning, essay outline, final essay, reflections and timelines to
highlight your learning journey.
The Portfolio will allow you to:
• Demonstrate your Learning: Showcase the knowledge and skills you have acquired
during the course.
• Reflect on Growth: Analyse your progress and development over time.
• Organise Work: Present your work in a structured and cohesive manner.
How should your Portfolio be presented?
Formatting
• Ensure your Portfolio is well-organised with a clear table of contents.
• Start each section of your Portfolio on a new page.
• Provide the relevant heading for each section.
• If not typing your Portfolio, ensure you write neatly and legibly and scan your
document as clearly as possible.
• If typing, use 12 point, 1.5 line spacing, fully justified format in a legible font.
, Components of the Portfolio
Section A: Introduction
Personal Statement: Introduce yourself in two sentences.
Portfolio purpose: State the purpose of a Portfolio as stated above.
Assessment 1 reflection: Write a reflection based on quiz one, answering the following
questions.
1. Explain how historians systematically study the past.
2. Mention the analytical skills that you can learn from studying history.
3. Outline the main components that make up a well-written paragraph.
4. Outline the main components of a well-structured essay.
5. Explain what constitutes academic dishonesty in history assessment.
Personal Introduction
My name is Phula Molo, and I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Education with the
majors in History and Geography through the University of South Africa (UNISA). I
come from the township in Kwazakele, located in the Eastern Cape, where I was born
and raised. I’m now in my second year of studies, and one of the exciting modules I’m
enrolled in this semester is HSY1511: Africa in the World: Historical Perspectives.
I have been fascinated by the origins of our world and how nations came to be, how
political systems developed, and how various societies transformed over time. This
deep curiosity naturally led me to explore the field of history. I believe history is not only
ASSIGNMENT 4 2025 (PORTFOLIO)
DUE 8 MAY 2025
SEMESTER 1 2025
,HSY1511 Semester 1 2025: Assessment 4
HSY1511 Portfolio
What is a Portfolio?
A portfolio is a collection of work that demonstrates your skills, competencies, and
achievements over time. In the context of HSY1511, the Portfolio will encompass your
quiz assessment, essay planning, essay outline, final essay, reflections and timelines to
highlight your learning journey.
The Portfolio will allow you to:
• Demonstrate your Learning: Showcase the knowledge and skills you have acquired
during the course.
• Reflect on Growth: Analyse your progress and development over time.
• Organise Work: Present your work in a structured and cohesive manner.
How should your Portfolio be presented?
Formatting
• Ensure your Portfolio is well-organised with a clear table of contents.
• Start each section of your Portfolio on a new page.
• Provide the relevant heading for each section.
• If not typing your Portfolio, ensure you write neatly and legibly and scan your
document as clearly as possible.
• If typing, use 12 point, 1.5 line spacing, fully justified format in a legible font.
, Components of the Portfolio
Section A: Introduction
Personal Statement: Introduce yourself in two sentences.
Portfolio purpose: State the purpose of a Portfolio as stated above.
Assessment 1 reflection: Write a reflection based on quiz one, answering the following
questions.
1. Explain how historians systematically study the past.
2. Mention the analytical skills that you can learn from studying history.
3. Outline the main components that make up a well-written paragraph.
4. Outline the main components of a well-structured essay.
5. Explain what constitutes academic dishonesty in history assessment.
Personal Introduction
My name is Phula Molo, and I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Education with the
majors in History and Geography through the University of South Africa (UNISA). I
come from the township in Kwazakele, located in the Eastern Cape, where I was born
and raised. I’m now in my second year of studies, and one of the exciting modules I’m
enrolled in this semester is HSY1511: Africa in the World: Historical Perspectives.
I have been fascinated by the origins of our world and how nations came to be, how
political systems developed, and how various societies transformed over time. This
deep curiosity naturally led me to explore the field of history. I believe history is not only
