Senior course readiness criteria and pre-requisite
B in Year 10 English, B in Year 10 Humanities
What is the course about?
Ancient History provides opportunities for students to study people, societies and civilizations of the past, from the development of the earliest human communities to the end of the Middle Ages.
What will students learn?
In studying Ancient History, students will learn about:
- investigating the Ancient World
- personalities in their time
- reconstructing the Ancient World
- people, power and authority.
What skills will I learn through an Ancient Historical context?
- devise historical questions and conduct research.
- comprehend terms, concepts and issues
- analyse evidence from historical sources.
- evaluate evidence from historical sources.
- synthesise evidence from historical sources.
- communicate to suit purpose.
Course Content
Year 10
Sem 2
| Weapons and Warfare
- Vikings, burial practices Personalities in their time
- Ancient Persia, Macedonia and Alexander the Great.
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Year 11
| Unit 1 Investigating the Ancient World - Digging up the Past; archaeological techniques
- Funerary practices and beliefs.
| Unit 2 Personalities in their times - Akhenaten, the Pharaoh that brought Ancient Egypt to its knees.
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Year 12
| Unit 3 Reconstructing the Ancient World - Ancient Greece; Pericles; the Persian Wars.
- Pompeii and Herculaneum. The archaeology from one of the world’s great disasters.
| Unit 4 People, Power, and Authority - Ancient Egypt: The Imperial expansion of the New Kingdom
- Augustus: Rome’s first emperor. (External Exam topic)
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How will students be assessed?
Students will complete the following assessments:
- examination — essay in response to historical sources (25%)
- investigation — independent source investigation (25%)
- investigation — historical essay based on research (25%)
- examination — short responses to historical sources (25%)
Subject Summary
General
| Internal assessment (75%) External assessment (25%)
| Up to 4
| Yes
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*QCAA: Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority – www.qcaa.qld.edu.au