Senior Ancient History Draft Summary

Australian Curriculum:
Senior History DraftSummary
(Australia) March 2010
Ancient History: Years 11 & 12
Summarised from Australian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Australian Curriculum Documents [May 2010]
Annabel Astbury
History Teachers’ Association of Victoria

Skills: Years 11 & 12
Knowledge: Years 11 & 12
Historical skills & knowledge
Historical questions and research
Analysis and use of sources
Perspectives and interpretations
Comprehension and communication
Key events, people and ideas
Evaluating significant historical debates
Working with sources
Australian Curriculum: HistoryDraft Summary
Prepared by Annabel Astbury History Teachers’ Association of Victoria
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Stage of learning: Years 11 &12 Basic Structure
Two courses for Years 11 & 12 will be offered:
Ancient History: 4 Units over Years 11 & 12
Modern History: 4 Units over Years 11 & 12
Units for each course will be taken sequentially.
At this stage, students in Year 12 will continue with the course that they have commenced in Year 11. (IE: Students cannot do Units 3 & 4 of the different history)
Organisation of Content
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Unit 1: Investigating Ancient History (Year 11)
Organisation of Content
Unit 2a: Representing and Interpreting the Ancient Past
Unit 2b: Ancient Lives
Choose One: Year 11
Unit 3: Ancient People, Power and Politics (Year 12)
Unit 4: Ancient Societies, Sites and Sources (Year 12)
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Unit 1: Investigating Ancient History(Year 11)
Content: Unit 1
In this unit, students study:
Methods of historians and archaeologists
Ancient Sources: Students must study
ONE archaeological source and
ONE written source
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Unit 2a: Representing and Interpreting the Ancient Past (Year 11)
Content Unit 2a
In this unit, students:
critically analyse representations and interpretations of the ancient past through film, literature, art, virtual reality and websites.
investigate controversial historical and archaeological issues.
Students analyse ancient and modern representations of one of the following:
the Trojan War
Hebrews and Egyptians: Exodus
the Persian Wars – Battle of Thermopylae
Alexander the Great
RamessesII
Cleopatra
Roman gladiatorial games
Boudicca
the fall of the Roman Empire.
This unit is one of two choices offered at Unit 2.
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Unit 2b: Ancient Lives (Year 11)
Content: Unit 2b
In this unit students:
undertake a source-based comparative study of two ancient societies.
examine these two societies through one theme.
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Unit 3: Ancient people, power and politics (Year 12)
Content: Unit 3a
In this unit, students investigate significant events and developments within an historical period, including key political concepts and structures, and how individuals and groups have challenged the norms of power and authority.
Students study:
One historical period
One individual (who may or may not be relatedto that historical period)
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Unit 4:
In this unit students:
Investigate an ancient society
One of the following:
Bronze Age societies (Minoan OR Mycenaean)
18th Dynasty New Kingdom Egypt
Sparta (c 700–371 BCE)
Athens (510–399 BCE)
Persia (Cyrus I to Darius III)
Early Imperial Rome (1st century CE).
Investigate an ancient site or source.
Ancient Sites: Students interpret the remains of the past and issues associated with the study of the ancient site/complex
Ancient Sources: students interpret the ancient source in the context of other available evidence.
One of the following sites/complexes:
Content: Unit 4
Palace complexes of Minoan Crete
Pompeii and Herculaneum
18th dynasty Thebes – east and west
Persepolis
OR
One of the following sources:
Amarna Letters
Herodotus, Books V-VIII
Thucydides, Books I-V
Tacitus, The Annals, Books I-VI
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Consultation Opportunities
You can contribute feedback:
ACARA: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au
VCAA: www.vcaa.vic.edu.au
HTAV: www.htav.asn.au
Consultation forums will be held by the HTAV and VCAA throughout Victoria in June. Please see the websites for details.
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Senior Ancient History Draft Summary

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