Assessment Task: Year 7 Ancient Civilisations



Assessment Task: Year 7 Ancient China

[pic]You will work as a group to complete a project about the following ancient civilization.

Ancient China

Each person in the group will create a piece of the 'jigsaw' for their Ancient China and will report back to the whole class as an oral presentation with posters (on A3 paper) that can be stuck together to create a wall for Ancient China

C Task:

One person from each group completes a project about a different aspect of Ancient China

The Dynasties (Individual achievements /developments).

Beliefs and everyday life in Ancient China

The role of Women in society

War and Battle Tactics.

The Silk Road

For each section the person completing it must have..

-framed key research questions to help their discovery (who, what, when, where, why, how)

-compared how that aspect of life was similar and different to life today using a venn diagram.

-Completed the relevant source evaluations

-refer to at least one primary source in their presentation

B Task

Research and analyze the ways that Ancient China has influenced our life today. Explain your answer. What might our world be like if that ancient civilization had not existed?

A Task

Create a diary entry from the point of view of one of the following people living in Ancient China. Include their perception of the world around them, what they think of others and how they feel about their own life and future.

- A woman

A WARRIOR

- A EUNICH

- A person HIGH IN SOCIETY

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|Type of source (e.g. internet, book, documentary, | | | | |

|etc.) | | | | |

|Authors name | | | | |

|Date of last update | | | | |

|Author’s credentials/qualifications (if unknown write| | | | |

|‘unknown’). | | | | |

|Does the information appear to be biased? If so, how?| | | | |

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|What other sources verify this information? | | | | |

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Secondary Source Evaluation Student Name:

Venn Diagram: Please identify at least 4 similarities and differences

Cut out and stick on to poster…

Venn diagram showing the similarities and differences of __________________ in Ancient _CHINA_______________ to the ________________________ in society today.

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Framing Your Key Research Questions

Name: ____________________________.

Name of others in your group: ____________________________________.

To help you with your task you will need to frame key research questions to guide your study.

On the following table write as many who, what, when, where, why and how questions as you can about your topic to begin gathering information by answering the questions. Then narrow them down to the ones that will find the most relevant information. Don’t forget to record your sources along the way.

For example: If I were studying The Silk Road of Ancient China ?

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|Who |Who first developed the Silk Road ? | |

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| |Who used the Silk Road? | |

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| |Who benefited from the Silk Road? | |

|What |What happened along the Silk Road? | |

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|Where | | |

|Why |Was the Silk Road named ? | |

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|C Task Rubric |3.75 |4.00 |4.25 |4.5 |

|Historical knowledge and understanding|Your venn diagram showed 2 or less |Your venn diagram clearly |Your venn diagram clearly showed |Your venn diagram clearly showed at |

| |aspects of how life was different or |showed at least 2 relevant |at least 3 relevant aspects of |least 4 relevant aspects of how life |

|1: Comparing key aspects of past and |similar between ____________ of |aspects of how life was |how life was different and at |was different and at least 4 |

|present societies: Venn diagram |ancient China_____________and society|different and at least 2 |least 3 similarities between |similarities between ______________ |

| |today. |similarities between |______________ of ancient |of ancient China________________ and |

| | |_____________ of ancient |China______________ and society |society today. |

| | |China____________ and society |today. | |

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|2: Describe aspects of life in the | |Your poster presentation |Your poster presentation |Your poster presentation clearly |

|ancient China |Your poster presentation describes |describes some aspects of life|describes the aspect of life of |describes the aspect of life of the |

| |some aspects of life of the ancient |of the ancient China that was |the ancient China that was |ancient China that was designated to |

| |China that was designated to you. |designated to you using both |designated to you using both |you using pictures and key |

| | |pictures and information. |pictures and information that was|information that was gained through |

| | | |gained through the use of |the use of research questions. |

| | | |research questions. | |

|Historical Reasoning and | | | | |

|Interpretation | |You used some secondary |You used a variety of secondary |You used a variety of secondary |

| |You used few secondary sources in |sources in your investigation |sources in your investigation and|sources in your investigation and |

|3. Use a range of primary and |your investigation and noted some of |and noted some of them in the |noted most of them in the table |noted them in the table accurately. |

|secondary resources |them in the table. |table accurately. |accurately. |You also used and referred to at |

| |You also used and referred to 1 |You also used and referred to |You also used and referred to at |least 1 primary source in your |

| |primary source in your presentation. |at least 1 primary source in |least 1 primary source in your |presentation. |

| | |your presentation. |presentation. | |

|4. Framing key research questions |Your research questions contributed |Some of your research |Most of your research questions |Your research questions were well |

| |to your presentation, but more detail|questions were useful and |were useful and contributed to |thought out, useful and contributed |

| |was needed to provide a clearer |contributed to providing an |providing an informative |to providing an informative |

| |picture of your designated aspect of |informative presentation of |presentation of your designated |presentation of your designated |

| |life in an ancient society. |your designated aspect of life|aspect of life in an ancient |aspect of life in an ancient society.|

| | |in an ancient society. |society | |

|5. Spelling and grammar |Frequent spelling and grammar |Some spelling and grammar |Few spelling and grammar mistakes|Correct spelling and grammar |

| |mistakes in this task. |mistakes in this task. |in this task. |throughout this task. |

|6. Presentation |The poster was untidy and it made it |The poster was a bit untidy | |The poster was well presented with |

| |difficult to understand. |but some information and |The poster was well presented |pictures and key information clearly |

| | |pictures were visible. |with some pictures and most key |visible. |

| | | |information clearly visible. | |

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| |4.75 |5.0 | | |

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Your group is completing a jigsaw project on Ancient ___CHINA________________________________.

The aspect (piece of the jigsaw) of Ancient China_______________________ that you are going to be

researching and presenting is _________________________.

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