ACL9LCG10U04 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor reflect on and explain how language, texts and artefacts provide understanding of culture and identity

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• • Elaboration discussing the spread of Greek influence across the Mediterranean and Black Sea, including the use of Greek as the common language for government, trade, commerce, education and law
• • Elaboration explaining why Classical Greek was the form of the language used by significant authors of Ancient Greece, such as Thucydides, Sophocles, Plato and Lysias, in texts in which they expressed the attitudes, beliefs and values of the time
• • Elaboration understanding how language and cultural practices are interconnected, for example, by explaining religious or political connotations associated with words such as ἡρῷον, μυστήρια, βουλη, δημαγωγος
• • Elaboration investigating First Nations Australians material culture such as instruments, jewellery, music, art, painting and dance, discussing how they provide an understanding of beliefs, cultural practices and social values, and making connections with those of Ancient Greece
• • Elaboration discussing ancient Greek values that are embedded in terms such as ξενία and considering their significance in the modern world
• • Elaboration discussing how the values, attitudes and practices of people living in Ancient Greek society reflect their identity and whether they are similar to or different from their own
• • Elaboration investigating how the study of ancient texts, language and artefacts can help to examine and interpret their own world, and analysing their own and others’ assumptions about family and civic responsibilities, traditions, values and attitudes, and how these can shape their own sense of identity

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• • Elaboration exploring the identity and loyalty of people of Ancient Greece as members of separate city-states and relating this to their own identity as a member of a local community or a state/territory/nation
• • Elaboration considering how cultural diversity has continued to be an integral feature of society since ancient times
• • Elaboration discussing the enduring use of Classical Greek in religious contexts in the contemporary world, for example, κύριε ἐλέησον, Χριστὀς, ἐκκλησία, κλῆρος, ἄγγελος, ὕμνος, εὐαγγέλιον
• • Elaboration investigating the use of dialects to denote differences in ethnicity and social status in Ancient Greece, for example, Aristophanes’ use of Doric to ridicule a Spartan character