Year 12 Ancient History Oppressed Groups in Rome and Greece (Women & Slaves)

Teaching and Learning Sequence

Week Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3
Monday - Period 3 Wednesday - Period 2 Friday Period 4
Week 1 Overview of Unit Documentary slavery in Rome QCS Booster Sessions at UQ
July 10-14 Intro to concept of Oppression in modern (delivering QCS Booster Sessions at UQ)
context
Week 2 Slavery in ancient Rome Continued. Role of women in ancient society
July 17-21 P.Point & note-taking Slavery in ancient Greece Focus on Rome
Primary sources and perspectives of slavery P.Point & note-taking P.Point overview and note-taking
What did ancient historians and thinkers Primary sources and perspectives of slavery Discussion and evaluation of primary
believe about slavery? What did ancient historians and thinkers sources ancient perspectives of
TEEL paragraph writing using in-text believe about slavery?
women
referencing TEEL paragraph writing using in-text
referencing

Week 3 Role of women in ancient society Role of women in ancient society Continued.
July 24-28 Focus on Greece Focus on Athens Role of women in ancient society
P.Point overview and note-taking P.Point overview and note-taking Focus on Athens
Discussion and evaluation of primary Discussion and evaluation of primary P.Point overview and note-taking
sources ancient perspectives of women sources ancient perspectives of women Discussion and evaluation of primary
Distribute Assessment - Multimodal sources ancient perspectives of
women
Week 4 Unpack assessment Multimodal Continued Begin Record of Research
July 31- Aug 4 Explain task and due dates Role of women in ancient society Write rationale
Written due Week 8 Focus on Sparta Develop four focus questions
Presentations Monday, Week 9 P.Point overview and note-taking Internet research
Homework develop hypothesis
Clarify questions Discussion and evaluation of primary
(Deb away for Period 4)
Go through scaffold sources ancient perspectives of women
Hypothesis examples Compare-contrast Athens & Sparta
Intro - Role of women in Sparta (Deb away at PD)

Week 5 Slavery in Rome How to write a Bibliography Excursion Gladiators: Heroes of the
August 7-11 Review Gladiators Harvard referencing style Colosseum at Queensland Museum
Primary sources ancient perspectives Create Bibliography document Students who stay behind to work in
Prep for Excursion Referencing tools using online Bibliography Resource Centre on research task
generator
Week 6 Logan Show Holiday Monday 14th August Essay writing 5 paragraph essay
August 14-18 (Intro, 3 x topic paras, conc)
Practice essay with in-text referencing
Essay writing 5 paragraph essay
Plan essay, write introduction
(Intro, 3 x topic paras-TEEL, conc)
Practice essay with in-text referencing
Exemplars and practice using students own
research notes
Week 7 Slavery in Rome and Greece How to use Windows Movie-maker to create a
August 21-25 Compare / contrast multimodal task
Men, Women, Children Gathering resources, images, text
Treatment Timing
Primary sources Background music or narration
Exemplar of a video multimodal
Textbook research
Students use index to find information
Add to Record of Research
Students should attempt to prove their
hypothesis with relevant sources from
textbooks
Laptops are booked
Continue internet research
Record of Research
Draft of Essay/script due
Feedback to students by Monday

Week 8 Draft of powerpoint or multimodal due Block Exams Block Exams

Aug 28 Sept 1 Feedback by Wednesday this week
Work on multimodal

Week 9 Continue internet research QCS- Tues 29th to Weds 30th Edit Final Copy of Record of Research and
Sept 4-8 Record of Research Essay/Script
Draft of Essay/script due Edit Final Copy of Multimodal
Feedback to students by Monday
Week 10 Multimodal Presentations due Enrichment Enrichment
Sept 11-15