AC9HH7S06 – Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences: Historical perspectives and interpretations

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 identifying the possible meanings of, and attitudes and values shown by, images and symbols in primary sources, such as funerary texts or religious manuscripts

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