Level 1 Latin Internal Assessment Resource

Internal assessment resource Latin 1.6A v3 for Achievement Standard 90867

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Internal Assessment Resource

Latin Level 1

This resource supports assessment against:
Achievement Standard 90867 version 2
Write short Latin sentences that demonstrate understanding of Latin
Resource title: Daedalus Writes
3 credits
This resource:

Clarifies the requirements of the standard
Supports good assessment practice
Should be subjected to the school’s usual assessment quality assurance process
Should be modified to make the context relevant to students in their school environment and ensure that submitted evidence is authentic

Date version published by Ministry of Education / February 2015 Version 3
To support internal assessment from 2015
Quality assurance status / These materials have been quality assured by NZQA.
NZQA Approved number A-A-02-2015-90867-02-4512
Authenticity of evidence / Teachers must manage authenticity for any assessment from a public source, because students may have access to the assessment schedule or student exemplar material.
Using this assessment resource without modification may mean that students’ work is not authentic. The teacher may need to change figures, measurements or data sources or set a different context or topic to be investigated or a different text to read or perform.

Internal assessment resource Latin 1.6A v3 for Achievement Standard 90867

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Internal Assessment Resource

Achievement Standard Latin 90867: Write short Latin sentences that demonstrate understanding of Latin

Resource reference: Latin 1.6A v3

Resource title: Daedalus Writes

Credits: 3

Teacher guidelines

The following guidelines are designed to ensure that teachers can carry out valid and consistent assessment using this internal assessment resource.

Teachers need to be very familiar with the outcome being assessed by Achievement Standard Latin 90867. The achievement criteria and the explanatory notes contain information, definitions, and requirements that are crucial when interpreting the standard and assessing students against it.

Context/setting

This activity requires students to imagine they are Daedalus and write diary entries for him in Latin, over one term. The entries derive from the study of the story of Daedalus and Icarus, which the students read as a studied Latin literary text.

The sentences contained in these entries may be drafted and re-drafted, and students need to include all of their versions in the diaries.

The diary entries need to be 4–5 sentences long and reflect the students’ linguistic and cultural knowledge of Latin. For example, the sentence content and detail will show understanding of Latin inflections, structures, and vocabulary.

The students also need to write entries that contain language beyond the immediate context, e.g. tenses in Latin that refer to past and/or future time, and mood and voice that communicate events.

Conditions

This assessment activity is an individual task.

The diary entries can be written by hand or electronically.

Advise the students of the submission date for their diaries well in advance.

Allow students some class time, but they will use out-of-class time for most of the work.

Resource requirements

Students can use the (revised) Level 1 Latin vocabulary list, classroom notes, grammar references, and word lists from dictionaries.

Students need to reference all resources used appropriately and include them in a bibliography.

Additional information

You could use any literary text studied in class in a similar way.

You could adjust the diary entries to suit a historical, mythical or fictional person, such as Julius Caesar, Augustus, Veturia, Agrippina, Ariadne, a Roman slave, a Roman mother, or a gladiator.

At all times, the quality of the written Latin is more important than the length of sentences or diary entries.

Internal assessment resource Latin 1.6A v3 for Achievement Standard 90867

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Internal Assessment Resource

Achievement Standard Latin 90867: Write short Latin sentences that demonstrate understanding of Latin

Resource reference: Latin 1.6A v3

Resource title: Daedalus Writes

Credits: 3

Achievement / Achievement with Merit / Achievement with Excellence
Write short Latin sentences that demonstrate understanding of Latin. / Write short Latin sentences that demonstrate clear understanding of Latin. / Write short Latin sentences that demonstrate thorough understanding of Latin.

Student instructions

Introduction

This assessment activity requires you to write diary entries in short Latin sentences, based on Ovid’s story of Daedalus and Icarus.

You can use a Level 1 Latin vocabulary list, your classroom notes, your literary texts, a dictionary, and grammar references to help you as you work.

You have one term to complete this activity. Some class time will be given, but you will do most of the writing in your own time.

You can write your diary by hand or electronically.

All work must be your own.

You will be assessed on how well you are able to write short Latin sentences.

Task

Imagine that you are Daedalus. You have been confined on Crete by King Minos, with your son Icarus. You are worried about ever getting back to Greece. You are writing entries in a diary in the hope that someone may find them.

Write your diary entries under these headings:

exsilium in Creta (Exile in Crete)
nobis effugiendum est (Our plan to escape)
mandata volandi (Instructions for flying)
filius mortuus est (My son is dead).

Write four short Latin sentences under each heading.

You can add other headings if you wish.

Reference all resources you use appropriately, and include a bibliography at the end of your diary.

As you work:

Draft and re-draft your Latin sentences until you are satisfied that your writing shows your thorough understanding of Latin language and of Daedalus’ situation.
Make sure your sentences are easy to understand, unambiguous, and contain language beyond the immediate context. This means tenses in Latin that refer to past and/or future time, and mood and voice that are used to communicate events.
Identify and understand the most difficult inflections, structures and vocabulary so that the sentences communicate the meaning and detail correctly and unambiguously in Latin.
Keep all drafts and final versions of your sentences in your diary.

Internal assessment resource Latin 1.6A v3 for Achievement Standard 90867

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Assessment schedule: Latin90867Daedalus Writes

Evidence/Judgements for Achievement / Evidence/Judgements for Achievement with Merit / Evidence/Judgements for Achievement with Excellence
The student writes short Latin sentences that demonstrate understanding of Latin.
The student uses linguistic knowledge to write Daedalus’ diary entries.
The short Latin sentences are understandable to another Latin reader, contain Latin content at Curriculum Level 6 and contain language beyond the immediate context.
For example:
exsilium in Creta
rex Minos nos in insula Creta tenet. Creta multa milia passuum a Graecia abest. illuc redire magnopere cupimus, sed captivi in turri sumus. quid faciam?
nobis effugiendum est
consilium bonum cepi. Minos caelum non regit. per auras ibimus. pennis avium in ordine positis, formas alarum faciam. itaque effugiemus.
mandata volandi
denique alae paratae sunt. filio alas dedi. iam timeo. quamquam puer bonus est, volare nescit. mihi necesse est eum docere.
filius mortuus est
primo Icarus mea mandata memoria tenebat. tum me reliquit et in altiores regiones caeli iit. sol ceram alas tenentem molliebat. subito Icarus alas amisit et in mare cecidit. corpus diu quaerebam. tandem alas inveni. / The student writes short Latin sentences that demonstrate clear understanding of Latin.
The student uses linguistic knowledge to write Daedalus’ diary entries.
The short Latin sentences are understandable to another Latin reader, contain Latin content at Curriculum Level6 and contain language beyond the immediate context.
The student identifies and understands the more difficult inflections, structures, and vocabulary within the sentences and correctly communicates meaning and detail in Latin.Communication is not significantly hindered by inconsistencies.
For example:
exsilium in Creta
rex Minos, vir potens, nos in insula Creta tenet. Creta multa milia passuum a Graecia, nostra patria, abest. ad urbem nostram Athenas redire magnopere volumus, sed captivi in turri sumus. quid faciam?
nobis effugiendum est
denique consilium bonum cepi. Minos omnia habet, sed caelum non regit. per auras celeres ibimus. pennis avium in ordine a minimis ad maximas positis, formas curvas alarum faciam. itaque hoc modo effugiemus.
mandata volandi
denique alae paratae sunt. filio alas dedi, sed iam timeo. quamquam puer bonus est, volare nescit. mihi necesse est eum docere. si altius volabit, alae ceram amittent.
filius mortuus est
primo Icarus mea mandata memoria tenebat et medio itinere volabat. tum me reliquit et in altiores regiones caeli iit.sol ceram alas tenentem molliebat. subito Icarus alas amisit.“pater” vocans et bracchia agitans in mare cecidit. corpus diu quaerebam. tandem alas fractas inveni. / The student writes short Latin sentences that demonstrate thorough understanding of Latin.
The student uses linguistic knowledge to write Daedalus’ diary entries.
The short Latin sentences are understandable to another Latin reader, contain Latin content at Curriculum Level 6 and contain language beyond the immediate context.
The student identifies and understands the most difficult inflections, structures, and vocabulary within the sentences and correctly and consistently communicates meaning and detail in Latin. The sentencesare easy to understand and unambiguous.
For example:
exsilium in Creta
rex Minos, vir potens, nos in insula Creta, tenet, quae in totis partibus mari clauditur et multa milia passuum a Graecia, nostra patria, abest. ad urbem nostram Athenas redire volumus, sed captivi in turri alta sumus. quid faciam?
nobis effugiendum est
denique consilium bonum cepi. Minos omnia habet, sed caelum non regit. per auras nubesque ibimus. pennis avium in ordine a minimis ad maximas positis, formas curvas alarum cera ligatas faciam. itaque volando sicut aves effugiemus.
mandata volandi
denique alae paratae sunt. filio alas dedi, sed iam timeo. quamquam puer bonus est, volare nescit. mihi necesse est artem volandi eum docere. si altius volabit, alae propter solem ceram amittent.
filius mortuus est
primo Icarus mea mandata memoria tenebat et medio itinere volabat. tum me reliquit et in altiores regiones caeli iit.sol ceram alas tenentem molliebat. subito Icarus alas amisit. “pater” frustra vocans et bracchia inutilia agitans in mare cecidit, ubi summersus est. corpus diu quaerebam. tandem alas fractas inveni, quas in insula, nomine Icaria, sepelivi.

Final grades will be decided using professional judgement based on a holistic examination of the evidence provided against the criteria in the Achievement Standard.