ACL9LL10U04 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 that Latin is a member of the Indo-European family of languages, related to and influenced by other ancient languages, such as the use of Classical Greek vocabulary and concepts in Roman literature and philosophy, for example, stadium, rhetor, theatrum, poeta, stoica, philosophia

• 2

  reflecting on how Latin became the common language across the empire and investigating the enduring use of Latin in academia, law, medicine and religion, for example, summa cum laude, modus operandi, ab initio, pater noster

• 3

  analysing cultural attitudes and values embedded in language and symbols, for example, pietas, virtus, hospitium, SPQR, fasces and making comparisons to their own language and culture

• 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 Rome
• 5

  understanding how language and cultural practices are interconnected, for example, the use of cognates of the father’s name for sons and daughters, Julia as daughter of Julius, or religious connotations associated with words and expressions such as the polite command in the English RIP ‘rest in peace’ and the more prayerful subjunctive in the Latin requiescat in pace

• 6 investigating the importance of understanding Latin for personal status in the Roman world, and as a vehicle for social, economic and political advancement, for example, the education in Latin of the local elite in the provinces
• 7 considering how cultural diversity has continued to be an integral feature of society since ancient times
• 8 investigating how language, texts and artefacts provide a means of understanding the social values, attitudes and cultural practices of the Romans and making links and comparisons to their own language(s) and culture(s)
• 9 analysing how learning Latin provides insights into the language, culture and identity of people living in the Roman world and reflecting on students’ own relationship to language(s), culture(s) and identity in their community, state/territory or nation and as a global citizen

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