An inquiry approach to appreciating our ancient past for the new Queensland Ancient History syllabus.
Written explicitly for the new Queensland Ancient History syllabus by a highly experienced team of curriculum developers and practising teachers, Senior Ancient History for Queensland combines a source-based inquiry approach with selective narrative content to place each inquiry in context and bring history to life.
The series covers the most popular topics in depth, plus all individuals from the People, Power and Authority unit, and provides flexible topic options to cover external assessment requirements.
Activities are explicitly labelled and structured around the syllabus objectives which require students to use a range of cognitive processes – to Comprehend, Devise, Analyse, Synthesise, Evaluate and Create – ensuring they are building each of these essential skills.
Extensive assessment support will help prepare students for both internal assessment and the new external assessment component of the syllabus. It includes chapter summaries, short-response questions, assessment-style extended-response questions, plus a dedicated digital assessment chapter with assessment-style questions and suggested responses.
Due to recently released QCAA advice on how publishers may address assessment in textbooks, we have opted to replace the dedicated assessment chapter in Senior Ancient History for Queensland with a shorter assessment support section to be included in the Historical Skills Toolkit.
Contents:
Unit 1: Investigating the Ancient World
1 Digging up the past
2 Ancient societies: Slavery – Roman society
3 Ancient societies: Weapons and warfare – The Vikings
4 Ancient societies: The family – Spartan society
5 Ancient societies: Egypt in the Ramesside period
Unit 2: Personalities in their times
6 Hatshepsut
7 Akhenaten
8 Agrippina the Younger
9 Boudica – DIGITAL
Unit 3: Reconstructing the Ancient World
10 Thebes – East and West, 18th Dynasty Egypt
11 Fifth Century Athens BCE
12 Philip II & Alexander III of Macedon
13 Early Imperial Rome
14 Pompeii and Herculaneum
15 The ‘fall’ of the Western Roman Empire – DIGITAL
Unit 4: People, power and authority
16 Ancient Rome – Civil war and the breakdown of the Republic
17 Thutmose II – DIGITAL
18 Rameses II
19 Themistocles
20 Alkibiades – DIGITAL
21 Scipio Africanus – DIGITAL
22 Caesar
23 Augustus
24 Examination guide
*Note: Other examinable Unit 4 topics are covered in earlier chapters. A curriculum grid will be provided.