ACL9LCG10E02 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.

respond to texts and discuss ideas about ancient Greek society in Classical Greek or English, as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 reading texts in Classical Greek and responding to questions in English to demonstrate understanding of content, context, purpose and technique
• 2 comparing social issues such as class, the role of women and civil rights in the Classical Greek and modern world
• 3 researching inscriptions or graffiti and analysing what they reveal about the society of the time
• 4 reading about events which have taken place in Athens and creating a virtual tour of the Agora or the Acropolis of Athens, adding written or oral text in English or simple sentences in Classical Greek
• 5 reading texts on the Peloponnesian war and re-enacting the ecclesia, debating a significant, related issue such as whether the Athenian farmers should leave their lands, retreat to the city and conduct a long war against the Spartans
• 6 gathering and collating information about ancient Greek art, including sculpture, jewellery and painting, and producing an online exhibition catalogue
• 7 reading a text and analysing characters, themes and the use of literary features
• 8 discussing how language is used to reveal character, values and key messages in texts such as narratives, dialogues, plays, poems, letters or speeches, for example, Pericles’ funeral oration
• 9 discussing characters such as Croesus in ‘The Histories’ by Herodotus and Dicaeopolis in ‘The Acharnians’ by Aristophanes, and composing an imaginative text or performing a role-play from that character’s point of view
• 10 evaluating the effectiveness of texts by considering the use of techniques such as simile, metaphor, personification or pathos for particular purposes such as to entertain or persuade
• 11 listening to and/or reading extracts from original or modified texts, and performing them to convey meaning using appropriate expression, phrasing, stress and tone

Related Achievement Standards