Ancient History

OVERVIEW YEAR 10 TO 12 ANCIENT HISTORY
CONTENT AND ASSESSMENT
Overview of Year 10 Ancient History
Unit / Inquiry Topic / Assessment
1 / Time
When is it? Where is it? / Item 1
SRT = Short Response Task
2 / Death in On the Nile
Funerary Practices and Myths / Item 2
RTSE = Response to Stimulus Essay
Item 3
SRT = Short Response Task
3 / Play, Play, Play
Entertainment in the Ancient world
Or
Raiders and Rioters
Warfare in the Ancient World
Or
Cool dudes from the Antiquity
Great personalities of the Ancient World / Item 4
SRT = Short Response Task
5 / History’s Mysteries - / Item 5
EWT = Extended Written Task
Or
MM = Multi Modal Task (non-written)
Overview of Year 11 Ancient History
Term / Theme / Assessment
1 / Introduction to Ancient History
  • What is History?
  • Introduction to Ancient History – the nature of the course
  • Reading Timelines
  • Historical Terminology
/ No Assessment
1 and 2 / Studies of Archaeology
  • Inquiry Topic 1 - Archaeological Techniques
  • Linking Topic- Famous Archaeological Sites
  • Inquiry Topic 2 – Theories and Controversies of Early Human Development
/ Item 6
SRT = Short Response Task
And
Item 7
EWT = Extended Written Task
3 / Either
A Study of Pharaonic Power in Egypt
  • Linking Topic – The Development of Early Civilizations: Catal Huyuk, Jericho and Nile Delta
  • Inquiry Topic 1: An examination of the changing nature of Pharaonic Power throughout Egyptian Civilization
  • Inquiry Topic 2: Students choose from one of the following areas:
  • Autocratic power in the Old Kingdom
  • Relationship between power of the Pharaoh and religion
  • Contrasts in Pharaonic power between Old and Middle Kingdom
  • The Armana Revolution
  • Ptolemaic Pharaohs
  • The Effect of Pharaonic power on the Culture of Egypt
Or
Studies of the Everyday Lives of People in Ancient Societies
This unit is to be studied only if “Studies of Pharaonic Power in Egypt” has not been studied.
  • Linking Topic – The Development of Early Civilizations: Catal Huyuk, Jericho and Nile Delta
  • Inquiry Topic 1:- An examination the factors involved in the study of everyday lives, focussing on the everyday lives of the people of Ancient Mediterranean cultures eg Assyrians, Hittites, Egyptians, Etruscans etc
/ Item 8
MM = Multi Modal Task (non-written)
4 / Studies of Changing Practices in Society and Government in the Greek World
  • Linking Topic- Early settlements in Greece – the Minoans and the Mycenaeans; Greek colonisation; the development of the city-states and the tyrannies
  • Inquiry Topic 1:- The end of tyranny and the development of Greek democracy in Athens and its impact in the fifth century
/ Item 9
RTSE = Response to Stimulus Essay
Overview of Year 12 Ancient History
Term / Theme / Assessment
1 and 2 / Studies of Power
  • Linking Topic 2:- Types of Government (including both ancient and modern)
  • Inquiry Topic 1:- The breakdown of the RomanRepublic and the contribution of the Gracchi to its breakdown.
  • Linking Topic: The end of the Republic and the rise of the Empire.
  • Inquiry Topic 2:- Aristocratic / Imperial Governments in the Ancient World (eg. The Julio-Claudians)
/ Item 10
RTSE = Response to Stimulus Essay
And
Item 11
EWT = Extended Written Task
3 and 4 / Either
Studies of Europe in Transition
  • Linking Topic:- The Fall of the Roman Empire – Internal and External Factors leading to the Fall of the Roman Empire and their Impact on Early Europe
  • Inquiry Topic:- The Development and Organization of the Feudal System and an Examination of the Factors which impacted upon the Feudal Society
eg. The role of the Christian Church, the Black Death, the Crusades , the Norman Invasion of Britain, the Saxon invasion of Britain, the Vikings in Europe.
Or
Studies of Religion
This unit is to be studied only if the “Studies of Europe in Transition” has not been studied.
  • Linking Topic:- Polytheistic Religion in the Ancient World (Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Celtic Society)
  • Inquiry Topic:- Monotheism in the Ancient World (Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Early Christianity and Early Islam)
/ Item 12
MM = Multi Modal Task (non-written)
Item 13
SRT = Short Response Task
And
Item 14
SRT = Short Response Task