AC9HH8K06 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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.

interpretations about an event, individual, group, institution or movement in Medieval, Renaissance or pre-modern Europe

Elaborations

• 1 explaining how historians have disproved medieval myths such as King Arthur or Pope Joan
• 2 analysing why the Black Death has been misconceived as impacting Europe predominantly, with reference to differing historians’ interpretations
• 3 analysing the importance of key women in Renaissance society, such as Caterina Sforza (1463–1509), Isabella d’Este (1474–1539), Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519) and Catherine de Medici (1519–1589), using a range of artwork, written sources and historians’ interpretations to justify claims
• 4 explaining how the interpretations of the discoveries of science are linked to ideas about the free exercise of human reason and how that could lead to improvements and progress in human life and society generally
• 5 examining historical interpretations of key events, developments or achievements during this period, such as the Scientific Revolution or the beginnings of the Age of Reason/Enlightenment, and how these interpretations highlight their importance or significance to contemporary society

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