ACL9LCG8E02 Year 7 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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 convey information in Classical Greek or English, as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 listening to and reading texts such as stories about life in the city/country, legends or myths, and responding to questions in English relating to content and context, or providing a summary of the text
• 2 gathering and collating information about daily routine in the ancient Greek world, such as family life, education, food, hygiene and exercise, and presenting findings in posters or digital displays, including annotations in English or words and simple phrases in Classical Greek
• 3 exploring and discussing references in texts to social structure in Sparta and Athens, including perioikoi, the helots and Athenian metics
• 4 researching artefacts such as Greek vases and explaining what they tell us about daily life and cultural practices in Ancient Greece
• 5 comparing details from different sources about where people of the ancient Greek world lived, such as in urban centres or rural settlements, for example, through dioramas or drawings with labels in Classical Greek or English, and discussing what they reveal about different lifestyles in the Classical period
• 6 reading accounts of historical events, for example, Aeschylus’ eyewitness account of the Battle of Salamis, and presenting the information in a different format such as a news report
• 7 discussing how scenes and characters are depicted in texts, such as through imagery or conversations
• 8 reading a text such as a story or a myth and illustrating it with images and simple captions in Classical Greek
• 9 identifying and discussing the techniques writers use to achieve effects such as humour or surprise
• 10 presenting short Classical Greek texts orally, such as stories, dialogues, poems or speeches, using strategies to convey tone and emotion
• 11 creating a class bank of references in texts that relate to the worship of the Olympian gods and local heroes, the panhellenic festivals of the Olympic and Pythian Games, or the dramatic performances of the Dionysia in Athens, to assess the importance of religion in ancient Greek society

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