Exemplar for internal assessment resource Classical Studies 1.5B for Achievement Standard 91025
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Exemplar for Internal Assessment Resource
Classical Studies Level 1
Resource title: What Do You Do For Fun?
This exemplar supports assessment against:
Achievement Standard 91025
Demonstrate Understanding of Links Between Aspects of the Classical
World and Other Cultures
Enhanced schedule
The moderators have provided supporting information to enhance the assessment schedule
so there is clear guidance and more supporting detail for teachers on which to base
assessment decisions.
Date version published by
Ministry of Education
© Crown 2010
December 2010
To support internal assessment from 2011
Assessment
schedule: Classical
Studies 1.5B Task
Evidence/Judgments for
Achievement
Tasks 1–3
The student has demonstrated
understanding of links between ancient
Rome’s Colosseum and Wellington’s
Westpac Stadium.
The student has demonstrated in-depth
understanding of links between ancient
Rome’s Colosseum and Wellington’s
Westpac Stadium.
The student demonstrates perceptive
understanding of links between ancient
Rome’s Colosseum and Wellington’s
Westpac Stadium.
This means that the student has
explained links (similarities or
connections) between the two venues.
This means that the student has:
This means that the student has:
•
supported the explanation with primary
source evidence of specific relevance to
the context
•
shown insight into links (similarities or
connections) between the two forms of
government
An example of an extract from a student
response:
•
explained aspects/factors relating to the
links between the two forms of
government
•
used appropriate primary source
evidence of specific relevance to the
context.
•
included an understanding of a wider
cultural context.
A link between the Colosseum or
Flavian Amphitheatre and the Westpac
Stadium is the size and function of both
buildings – they are both large
entertainment venues.
The Colosseum’s tiered seating held
about 50,000 Romans. They came to
see gladiator fights and wild animal
hunts.
Similarly, the Westpac Stadium is a
major sporting venue (also used for
music concerts). It has tiered seating to
hold up to 35–40,000 people. The
audience is often very enthusiastic (e.g.
shouting and chanting) when watching
a big event such as an All Blacks game,
just as the audience was at the
Colosseum when watching a gladiator
fight.
Evidence/Judgments for
Evidence/Judgments for
Achievement with Merit
Achievement with Excellence
An example of an extract from a student
response:
Most Romans loved to watch gladiatorial
combats – men fighting, often to the death,
or to gain the wooden sword of freedom.
Seneca tells us that some gladiators had
‘no armour to protect them and with the
whole of their bodies exposed to each
other’s hits, they never fail to hit the target.
Many people prefer this kind of fight to the
usual programme of a pair of gladiators or
request items – for obvious reasons’.
Although rugby players don’t fight to the
death, they do aim to win and, like some
gladiators, they don’t wear protective
clothing and can be injured by the
An example of an extract from a student
response:
The Romans loved watching gladiator
fights, but venationes (wild beast hunts)
were also popular. Animals like lions and
leopards were kept in underground
passages and would be let out through
trap doors on the floor of the arena to
surprise the bestiarius. Augustus boasted
about having killed 3,500 animals in one of
his shows.
When attending a rugby match at the
Stadium, the players come on to the field
in a similar kind of way. They run onto the
pitch from a tunnel underneath the roaring
opposition.
crowd.
Both ancient Roman audiences and
modern New Zealand audiences love to
see rough physical contact
Some people in ancient Rome did not like
these forms of entertainment. Cicero
asked, ‘What civilised man can enjoy the
sight of a feeble man being mauled by a
powerful beast?’. Similarly, rugby matches
don’t appeal to some New Zealanders
because sometimes the game can seem
aggressive and the audience seems noisy
and rough.
But for some people, like the Senators who
sat in the front row of the Colosseum, and
important business people or celebrities
who sit in a corporate box at the Westpac
Stadium, the experience is exciting and
memorable.