Canning Vale College - 2017
Ancient History – General Year 11
Unit 1 – Ancient civilisations and cultures (elective: Late Bronze Age Greece and Troy c. 1500–c. 1050 BCE and elective: Pompeii & Herculaneum and
the Roman World 80BCE-70CE)
Unit 2 – Power in the ancient world (elective: Alexander the Great, Macedonia 356–323 BCE and elective: Julius Caesar 100-44BCE)
Assessment
type
(from syllabus)
Historical inquiry
Explanation
Source analysis
Test
Total
Assessment
type weighting
(from syllabus)
30%
(Authority weighting
20–30%)
20%
(Authority weighting
20–30%)
30%
(Authority weighting
20–30%)
Assessment When/start and
weighting submission date
15%
Semester 1
Week 12–15
Task 5a: Topic: Investigation of an ancient civilisation or culture from proscribed list
Task 5b: Class presentation of inquiry findings
15%
Semester 2
Week 12-15
Task 10a: Topic: Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar
Task 10b: Class presentation of inquiry findings
10%
Semester 1
Week 6
Task 2: An in-class scaffolded essay or extended answer
Topic: The Mycenaean decline/Troy
10%
Semester 2
Week 11
Task 8: An in-class scaffolded essay or extended answer
Topic: Julius Caesar
7.5%
Semester 1
Week 3
Task 1: Teacher-generated source analysis based on two sources
Topic: Representations of Late Bronze Age Greek civilisation
7.5%
Semester 1
Week 9
Task 3: Teacher generated source analysis based on two sources
Topic: Representations of Pompeii & Herculaneum
7.5%
Semester 2
Task 6: Teacher generated source analysis based on two sources
Topic: Alexander the Great
7.5%
Semester 2
Week 13
Task 9: Teacher-generated source analysis based on two sources
Topic: Representations of Julius Caesar
10%
Semester 1
Week 11
Task 4: An in-class test comprising short and extended answers and closed and open questions
Topic: Features of the civilisations of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the Roman World (social,
political, legal and military structures, and economic activities)
10%
Semester 2
Week 7
Task 7: An in-class test comprising short and extended answers and closed and open questions
Topic: Elements of Greek/Macedonian society during the reign of Alexander the Great and his
conquest of Persia
20%
(Authority weighting
20–30%)
100%
Assessment task
100%