ACL9LCG10E01 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Languages 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.

interpret Classical Greek texts to analyse the society and culture of the ancient Greek world

Elaborations

• 1 interpreting and inferring meaning using knowledge of text type, linguistic features and culture, for example, comparing Herodotus and Thucydides
• 2 evaluating information about famous centres of Greek learning and culture, such as Alexandria, Antioch and Ephesus
• 3 analysing texts to understand how different points of view are expressed on political or social issues, for example, the recall of military generals to Athens to stand trial after the Athenian victory at Arginusae in 406 BCE as reported in Thucydides, or the debate led by Themistocles at Corinth on where the Greeks should fight against the Persians
• 4 investigating the importance of storytelling in capturing language, heritage and history and discussing how stories connect societies across time and place
• 5 examining how cultural attitudes are conveyed in Classical Greek texts, such as attitudes to enslaved people or women, political freedom, legal rights and obligations of citizens, social classes
• 6 researching architectural remains of Ancient Greece through the study of an archaeological site and discussing what they reveal about the values and attitudes of people in ancient Greek society
• 7 exploring Classical Greek inscriptions to elicit information about ancient Greek society, for example, inscriptions on vases, funerary stelae, ostraka
• 8 investigating ancient practices in engineering, medicine and science still relevant in the modern world, such as the theories of Hippocrates, Democritus, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, and Aristarchus
• 9 researching references in Classical Greek texts to historical or mythological characters, such as Themistocles or Achilles, to examine how they represent the beliefs, values and attitudes of the time
• 10 reading information about the rise of drama in Classical Greece and identifying its connection with the development of intellectual thought and democracy, for example, how Aristophanes’ plays comment on the political situation of his time
• 11 researching the influence of leading Greek intellectuals, such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle on modern Western philosophy

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