AC9HH7S06 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor identify perspectives, attitudes and values of the past in sources

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying perspectives in a historical source, such as the saying of Confucius, “Women and underlings are especially difficult to handle”, and discussing the values and attitudes of the society that produced it
• • Elaboration identifying that, while evidence may be limited for a particular group of people such as women, slaves, peoples living in newly conquered areas and ethnic groups, such evidence can provide useful insights into the power structures of a society
• • Elaboration identifying the possible meanings of, and attitudes and values shown by, images and symbols in primary sources, such as funerary texts or religious manuscripts