Level 2 Latin internal assessment resource



Internal Assessment Resource

Latin Level 2

|This resource supports assessment against: |

|Achievement Standard 91199 version 2 |

|Write Latin sentences of medium complexity that demonstrate understanding of Latin |

|Resource title: Res Gestae |

|3 credits |

|This resource: |

|Clarifies the requirements of the standard |

|Supports good assessment practice |

|Should be subjected to the school’s usual assessment quality assurance process |

|Should be modified to make the context relevant to students in their school environment and ensure that submitted |

|evidence is authentic |

|Date version published by Ministry of |February 2015 Version 2 |

|Education |To support internal assessment from 2015 |

|Quality assurance status |These materials have been quality assured by NZQA. |

| |NZQA Approved number: A-A-02-2015-91199-02-5567 |

|Authenticity of evidence |Teachers must manage authenticity for any assessment from a public source, because |

| |students may have access to the assessment schedule or student exemplar material. |

| |Using this assessment resource without modification may mean that students’ work is |

| |not authentic. The teacher may need to change figures, measurements or data sources |

| |or set a different context or topic to be investigated or a different text to read or|

| |perform. |

Internal Assessment Resource

Achievement Standard Latin 91199: Write Latin sentences of medium complexity that demonstrate understanding of Latin

Resource reference: Latin 2.6A v2

Resource title: Res Gestae

Credits: 3

Teacher guidelines

The following guidelines are designed to ensure that teachers can carry out valid and consistent assessment using this internal assessment resource.

Teachers need to be very familiar with the outcome being assessed by the Achievement Standard Latin 91199. The achievement criteria and the explanatory notes contain information, definitions, and requirements that are crucial when interpreting the standard and assessing students against it.

Context/setting

This activity requires students to choose an historical or mythological figure from the classical world who has made a notable achievement. Students should work in groups of 3-4, pairs or individually to write in English at least TEN complex sentences that outline what their chosen figure has achieved.

Possible figures and their achievements could include:

• Aeneas and his journey to Italy/flight from Troy/fighting in Latium

• Dido and her escape from Tyre/foundation of Carthage

• Sextus Tarquinius and his capture of Gabii

• Lucretia and her noble death

• Brutus and his expulsion of the monarchy

• Julius Caesar and his conquest of Gaul

• Cleopatra and her rule in Egypt

• Pompey the Great and his military and/or naval victories

• Augustus and his rise to power/victory at Actium

• Theseus and his travels to Athens/defeat of the Minotaur

• Ulysses and his return to Ithaca

• Hercules and his Twelve Labours

• Prometheus and his gift of fire.

Students should then work individually to translate their English sentences into Latin. Students should:

• use a variety of different syntactical constructions

• use a variety of simple and more complex syntactical constructions, e.g. simple constructions such as time phrases, cases uses, relative clauses, and more complex constructions such as temporal clauses, conditional clauses, causal clauses, concessive clauses; reported speech; result clauses; gerundival attraction

• show an understanding of the most difficult inflections, structures and vocabulary by communicating the meaning and detail of the sentences in Latin correctly

• make their sentences easy to understand and unambiguous.

Students should already be familiar with the level 1–7 guidelines. Curriculum Level 7 includes the language needed to demonstrate understanding of the views of others through increasingly varied and complex text types.

At all times the quality of writing is more important than length.

This is not a set translation exercise requiring students to accurately translate fixed English sentences; rather, students should be encouraged to convey meaning so as to show their understanding of Latin syntactical structures. The English sentences created by students are to be used as a starting-point only, and should not be included in the final submission.

This activity could well be completed without writing sentences in English and then translating into Latin.

To give students a better understanding of the types of sentences required, it could be worthwhile to brainstorm about topics with students in class, pooling ideas, discussing potential ideas for sentences, appropriate constructions and their alternatives, and suitable vocabulary.

Conditions

This assessment task will take place over two weeks of in- and out-of-class time. Students should spend the first week on creating sentences in English, and the second week on translating their sentences into Latin, revising their drafts, and checking the accuracy of their work.

Students may work in groups of 3-4, pairs or individually to begin with to formulate their English sentences, but their Latin sentences must be completed individually.

Resource requirements

Resources may include classroom notes, grammar references, word lists, dictionaries, and material from the internet, media or libraries. Students should be firmly guided away from online Latin translation engines, which will not produce the quality of correct Latin syntax required for this assessment task.

Additional information

None.

Internal Assessment Resource

Achievement Standard Latin 91199: Write Latin sentences of medium complexity that demonstrate understanding of Latin

Resource reference: Latin 2.6A v2

Resource title: Res Gestae

Credits: 3

|Achievement |Achievement with Merit |Achievement with Excellence |

|Write Latin sentences of medium |Write Latin sentences of medium |Write Latin sentences of medium |

|complexity that demonstrate understanding|complexity that demonstrate clear |complexity that demonstrate thorough |

|of Latin. |understanding of Latin. |understanding of Latin. |

Student instructions

Introduction

This assessment activity requires you to write sentences in Latin about an historical or mythological figure to demonstrate your understanding of the inflections, structures and vocabulary of the language.

English sentences

Work in groups of 3-4, pairs or individually to complete this task. Choose an historical or mythological figure from the classical world who has made a notable achievement. Then write in English at least TEN complex sentences which outline what your chosen figure has achieved.

Possible figures and their achievements could include:

• Aeneas and his journey to Italy/flight from Troy/fighting in Latium

• Dido and her escape from Tyre/foundation of Carthage

• Sextus Tarquinius and his capture of Gabii

• Lucretia and her noble death

• Brutus and his expulsion of the monarchy

• Julius Caesar and his conquest of Gaul

• Cleopatra and her rule in Egypt

• Pompey the Great and his military and/or naval victories

• Augustus and his rise to power/victory at Actium/rule of the Roman Empire

• Theseus and his travels to Athens/defeat of the Minotaur

• Ulysses and his return to Ithaca

• Hercules and his Twelve Labours

• Prometheus and his gift of fire.

When describing a figure’s achievement(s), you could include:

• relevant background information about the figure

• events leading up to the achievement

• consequences of the achievement

• a personal statement or opinion about the figure and/or the achievement.

Examples of appropriate sentences in English are:

1. Caesar, when he was in Gaul, conquered many tribes in a short time.

2. After Ariadne gave him a sword and string, Theseus killed the Minotaur.

3. Because fire had been given to men against their orders, the gods punished Prometheus very severely.

4. Cleopatra, who was the queen of Egypt, killed herself with a poisonous asp.

5. Hercules was so strong that he completed all his tasks and is now very well-known to all.

You should spend no more than one week writing your English sentences.

Note: This is not an exercise in translating your English sentences rigidly into Latin; rather, your original English sentences are merely a starting-point, and you are able to make changes to the original English ideas and sentences you have created at any time. The important thing is not that you translate an English sentence exactly into Latin, but that you show how well you can write complex Latin structures, in order to demonstrate a thorough understanding of Latin.

Latin sentences

Work individually to translate the English sentences you have created into Latin. You should try to:

• use a variety of different constructions

• use a variety of simple and more complex constructions, e.g. simple constructions such as time phrases, cases uses, relative clauses, etc., and more complex constructions such as temporal clauses, conditional clauses, causal clauses, reported speech, etc.

• show an understanding of the most difficult inflections, structures and vocabulary by communicating the meaning and detail of the sentences correctly in Latin

• make your sentences easy to understand and unambiguous.

It is expected that you will already be familiar with the level 1–7 guidelines.

At all times the quality of your writing is more important than the length.

After you have written your first draft, you should take time to check your work carefully, looking in particular at:

• person endings

• verb tenses and moods

• noun cases

• the use of singular and plural

• vocabulary used

• appropriate word-order

• alternative constructions you could use.

You should spend no more than one week writing and checking your sentences before submitting your final version.

Resources

Resources may include classroom notes, grammar references, word lists, dictionaries, and material from the internet, media or libraries. You should not use online Latin translation engines, which will not produce the quality of correct Latin required for this assessment task.

Assessment schedule: Latin 91199 Res Gestae

|Evidence/ Judgements for Achievement |Evidence/ Judgements for Achievement with Merit |Evidence/ Judgements for Achievement with Excellence |

|Students write Latin sentences of medium complexity that demonstrate |Students write Latin sentences of medium complexity that demonstrate |Students write Latin sentences of medium complexity that demonstrate |

|understanding of Latin. |clear understanding of Latin. |thorough understanding of Latin. |

| | | |

|Inflections, structures and vocabulary within the sentences are |The more difficult inflections, structures and vocabulary within the |The most difficult inflections, structures, and vocabulary are |

|identified and understood so that the content of the sentences is |sentences are identified and understood so that the meaning and |identified and understood so that the meaning and detail in almost |

|understandable to another Latin reader. The sentence content is at |detail of most of the sentences are correctly communicated in Latin. |all of the sentences are correctly communicated in Latin. The |

|Curriculum Level 7 and contains language used for different purposes.|The sentence content is understandable to another reader of Latin, is|sentence content is understandable to another reader of Latin, is at |

| |at Curriculum Level 7, and contains language used for different |Curriculum Level 7, and contains language used for different |

|Example: |purposes. |purposes. The sentences are easy to understand and unambiguous. |

|Iuno serpentes misit qui Herculem interficerent. | | |

| |Example: |Example: |

| |Iuno serpentes misit qui Herculem infantem interficerent. tam fortis |Iuno serpentes misit qui Herculem infantem interficerent.tam fortis |

| |erat Hercules ut eos necaverit. |erat Hercules ut eos necaverit. multa itinera fecit ad labores |

| | |perficiendos.nunc notissimus omnibus est. |

Final grades will be decided using professional judgement based on a holistic examination of the evidence provided against the criteria in the Achievement Standard.

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