Assessment Task: Year 7 Ancient Civilisations



Assessment Task: Year 7 Ancient Civilisations

You will work as a group to complete a project about one of the following ancient civilisations.

-Ancient Egypt

-Ancient Greece

-Ancient Rome

Each person in the group will create a piece of the 'jigsaw' for their Ancient Society 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 that ancient civilisation.

C Task:

One person from each group completes a project about a different aspect of the ancient civilisation.

Daily Life (occupations, family and foods)

Religion, beliefs and burial customs

Education (include systems of writing)

The role of women

Law and justice

Art and Drama

Architecture (buildings)

War and warfare

Myths and Beliefs (ancient Greece)

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 analyse the ways that ancient civilisation has influenced our life today. Explain your answer. What might our world be like if that ancient civilisation had not existed?

A Task

Create a diary entry from the point of view of one of the following people living in one of these ancient civilisations. 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 slave

- A person high in the society

- A warrior

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|Date of last update | | | | |

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

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

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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 ________________ 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 Religion, beliefs and burial customs of Ancient Egypt I might ask the following questions and then find out the answers:

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|Who |Who built the pyramids? | |

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| |Who were the pyramids built for? | |

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| |Who did the Ancient Egyptians worship? | |

|What |What was inside the pyramids? | |

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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|Your venn diagram clearly |Your venn diagram clearly |Your venn diagram clearly |

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

|1: Comparing key aspects of past and |different or similar between |aspects of how life was |aspects of how life was |aspects of how life was |

|present societies: Venn diagram |____________ of ancient |different and at least 2 |different and at least 3 |different and at least 4 |

| |_____________and society |similarities between |similarities between |similarities between |

| |today. |_____________ of ancient |______________ of ancient |______________ of ancient |

| | |____________ and society |______________ and society |________________ and society |

| | |today. |today. |today. |

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

|civilisation |Your poster presentation |describes some aspects of |describes the aspect of life of|clearly describes the aspect |

| |describes some aspects of |life of the ancient |the ancient civilisation that |of life of the ancient |

| |life of the ancient |civilisation that was |was designated to you using |civilisation that was |

| |civilisation that was |designated to you using |both pictures and information |designated to you using |

| |designated to you. |both pictures and |that was gained through the use|pictures and key information |

| | |information. |of research questions. |that was gained through the |

| | | | |use of research questions. |

|Historical Reasoning and Interpretation | | | | |

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

|3. Use a range of primary and secondary |You used few secondary |sources in your |sources in your investigation |secondary sources in your |

|resources |sources in your investigation|investigation and noted |and noted most of them in the |investigation and noted them |

| |and noted some of them in the|some of them in the table |table accurately. |in the table accurately. |

| |table. |accurately. |You also used and referred to |You also used and referred to |

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

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

| |presentation. |source in your | | |

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

| |contributed to your |questions were useful and |were useful and contributed to |well thought out, useful and |

| |presentation, but more detail|contributed to providing an|providing an informative |contributed to providing an |

| |was needed to provide a |informative presentation of|presentation of your designated|informative presentation of |

| |clearer picture of your |your designated aspect of |aspect of life in an ancient |your designated aspect of life|

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

| |an ancient society. | | | |

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

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

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

| |made it difficult to |but some information and |The poster was well presented |with pictures and key |

| |understand. |pictures were visible. |with some pictures and most key|information clearly 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 ___________________________________.

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

researching and presenting is _________________________.

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