ACL9LL10U01 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.

apply the phonological and orthographic systems of Latin in a range of contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  discussing conventions of Latin texts, such as metre in poetry, for example, the division of a line of poetry into feet, the use of scansion to identify vowels as short or long, and recognising elisions between words, such as mult(um) ill(e) et terris iactatus

• 2 understanding the writing conventions for original Latin text, inscriptions and epistles, for example, acknowledging the absence of punctuation by Roman writers and modern editors’ use of punctuation to guide readers
• 3

  understanding conventions for reading Latin aloud, such the significance of elision when reading verse aloud, for example, od(i) et amo

• 4 applying knowledge of the phonological systems of Latin to read familiar and unfamiliar words aloud
• 5 reading Latin passages and applying stress, rhythm and tone to convey meaning, for example, reciting or presenting extracts from Latin texts to the class or school community
• 6 reading aloud extracts from different genres of Latin literature with appropriate expression, such as the epigrams of Martial, poetry of Virgil and the speeches of Cicero

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