Canning Vale College - 2016
Ancient History – General Year 12
Unit 3 – Societies and Change (elective: Rome, the Late Republic to the Lex Manilia c. 133-66BCE)
Unit 4 – Confrontation and resolution (elective: Egypt, Akhenaten and the Amarna Revolution, Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten to the death of Horemheb
c. 1352-1295 BCE)
Assessment
type
(from syllabus)
Historical inquiry
Explanation
Source analysis
Test
Externally set
task
Total
Assessment
type weighting
(from syllabus)
20%
(Authority weighting
20%)
25%
(Authority weighting
25%)
25%
(Authority weighting
25%)
15%
(Authority weighting
15%)
Assessment When/start and
weighting submission date
10%
Semester 1
Week 1-6
Task 1a: Topic: Investigation of life in Late Republican Rome
Task 1b: In-class validation extended answer of 45 minutes. Students may use research notes
10%
Semester 2
Week 8–11
Task 8a: Topic: Investigation of Egypt’s heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten
Task 8b: In-class validation extended answer of 45 minutes. Students may use research notes
10%
Semester 1
Week 4
Task 2: An in-class scaffolded essay or extended answer
Topic: Tiberius Gracchus
15%
Semester 2
Week 3
Task 7: An in-class scaffolded essay or extended answer
Topic: Akhenaten
10%
Semester 1
Week 9
Task 3: Teacher-generated source analysis based on two sources
Topic: Career of Gaius Marius (133-87BCE) and extraordinary commands
15%
Semester 2
Week 7
Task 6: Teacher-generated source analysis based on two sources
Topic: Representations of Akhenaten in later part of reign
7.5%
Semester 1
Week 12
Task 5: An in-class test comprising short and extended answers and closed and open questions
Topic: Early career of Pompey to 66BCE
7.5%
Semester 2
Week 13
Task 9: An in-class test comprising short and extended answers and closed and open questions
Topic: Decline of Amarna Period, reign of Tutankhamun, Ay and death of Horemheb
15%
Semester 1
Week 13
Task 4: A task set by the SCSA based on the following content from Unit 3 – Rome, the Late Republic
to the Lex Manilia c. 133-66BCE.
15%
(Authority weighting
15%)
100%
Assessment task
100%