ACL9LL10E01 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.

interpret Latin texts to analyse the society and culture of the ancient Roman world

Elaborations

• 1

  investigating Roman political institutions and concepts such as republic and principate, the senate, the cursus honorum and political offices

• 2 researching information from a variety of sources about personal legal rights and citizenship in Rome
• 3 examining how cultural attitudes are conveyed in Latin texts, such as attitudes to civil rights, imperialism, slavery and women, and comparing these with modern social issues
• 4 investigating the importance of storytelling in capturing language, heritage and history, and discussing how stories connect societies across time and place
• 5 investigating the ancient origins of modern structures and concepts, for example, social classes, property rights and divorce
• 6 studying research from archaeological sites to learn about Roman urban planning, architecture and engineering
• 7 investigating what the location and role of places of entertainment and worship reveal about the values and attitudes of the Romans
• 8 researching references in Latin texts to foreign religions, for example, Mithraism, Isis worship and Christianity, and discussing the extent of their influence in Rome
• 9 investigating ancient practices such as Roman military practices or practices in medicine and science, for example, Galen’s surgical procedures and Pliny the Elder’s classification of animals and plants
• 10 listening to and/or reading extracts from original Latin texts by poets such as Martial, Horace, Catullus and Ovid, and analysing how they convey the attitudes of Roman society
• 11

  examining Latin inscriptions, curses or graffiti to elicit information about Roman society, for example, defixiones from Bath and graffiti at the Colosseum or in Pompeii, and creating examples in Latin or English

• 12 gathering and collating information about Roman art, including, jewellery, painting and sculpture, and investigating famous modern artists’ incorporation of classical themes and methods

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