ACL9LCG10U04 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3

  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

• 4 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
• 5

  discussing ancient Greek values that are embedded in terms such as ξενία and considering their significance in the modern world

• 6 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
• 7 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
• 8 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
• 9 considering how cultural diversity has continued to be an integral feature of society since ancient times
• 10

  discussing the enduring use of Classical Greek in religious contexts in the contemporary world, for example, κύριε ἐλέησον, Χριστὀς, ἐκκλησία, κλῆρος, ἄγγελος, ὕμνος, εὐαγγέλιον

• 11 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

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