ACL9LCLF10U04 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 explaining why [Classical Language] was the language used by significant authors of Ancient [Country/City], in texts in which they expressed the attitudes, beliefs and values of the time
• 2 considering how cultural diversity has continued to be an integral feature of society since ancient times
• 3 discussing the enduring use of [Classical Language] in some religious contexts in the contemporary world
• 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 [Country/City]
• 5 analysing cultural attitudes and values embedded in language and symbols, and making comparisons with their own language and culture
• 6 investigating how language, texts and artefacts provide a means of understanding the social values, attitudes and cultural practices of the people of Ancient [Country/City] and making links and comparisons with their own language(s) and culture(s)

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