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Internal assessment resource Latin 1.6B v3 for Achievement Standard 90867
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Internal Assessment Resource
Latin Level 1
This resource supports assessment against:
Achievement Standard 90867 version 2
Write short Latin sentences that demonstrate understanding of
Latin
Resource title: Report from the Front
3 credits
This resource:
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Clarifies the requirements of the standard
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Supports good assessment practice
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Should be subjected to the school’s usual assessment quality assurance
process
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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 Education
February 2015 Version 3
Quality assurance status
These materials have been quality assured by NZQA.
To support internal assessment from 2015
NZQA Approved number A-A-02-2015-90867-02-4513
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.
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Internal Assessment Resource
Achievement Standard Latin 90867: Write short Latin sentences
that demonstrate understanding of Latin
Resource reference: Latin 1.6B v3
Resource title: Report from the Front
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 Achievement
Standard Latin 90867. 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 imagine they are a commander of a Roman legion.
They will write a report in Latin to the Senate explaining their success at overcoming
the barbarians around 86 BC.
Adapt the details of this scenario to suit your course and students.
The students will write at least ten sentences, and include their drafts and
subsequent changes.
Students need to show a thorough understanding of Latin inflections, structures, and
vocabulary, and their sentences should contain language beyond the immediate
context, i.e. they should write in more than just the present tense and make use of
voice and mood.
Conditions
Students can complete the assessment in or out of class.
Resource requirements
The students may use the Level 1 Latin vocabulary list
(http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/assets/qualifications-and-standards/ncea/NCEA-subjectresources/Latin/latin1.pdf) and a vocabulary list of words from English into Latin, as
well as Latin–English and/or English–Latin dictionaries, grammar references,
classroom notes, and other appropriate resources during the activity.
Students may use other resources, such as material from the Internet, the news
media, or libraries.
Students are expected to reference all sources appropriately, and include them in a
bibliography.
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Additional information
You could adapt the assessment activity to suit any appropriate historic, cultural or
social setting. Examples include: daily life, a Roman campaign, a tour of a Roman
city, a day at the arena, a voyage to Britain, or the eruption of Pompeii.
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Internal Assessment Resource
Achievement Standard Latin 90867: Write short Latin sentences
that demonstrate understanding of Latin
Resource reference: Latin 1.6B v3
Resource title: Report from the Front
Credits: 3
Achievement
Write short Latin sentences
that demonstrate
understanding of Latin.
Achievement with Merit
Write short Latin sentences
that demonstrate clear
understanding of Latin.
Achievement with
Excellence
Write short Latin sentences
that demonstrate thorough
understanding of Latin.
Student instructions
Introduction
This assessment activity requires you to write a report of at least ten short Latin
sentences as Lucius Cornelius Cinna, the commander of a Roman legion.
To help you write your sentences, use a Level 1 Latin vocabulary list, a vocabulary
list of words from English into Latin, a Latin–English and/or English–Latin dictionary,
grammar references and classroom notes.
You will have in and out of the classroom time to complete this work.
Your teacher will specify a due date.
You will be assessed on how well you are able to write short sentences in Latin.
Task
Imagine that you are Lucius Cornelius Cinna, the commander of a Roman legion
fighting against barbarian tribes around 86 BC.
You have been asked by the consuls to write and send a report of your campaign to
Rome.
Write at least ten sentences in your report, informing the Senate and people of your
success in overcoming the enemies of the Republic.
Teacher note: Modify this scenario to suit your course and students.
You may invent context, details and additional information, and include this material
in your sentences.
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In your report
Teacher note: Adapt this guidance to suit your scenario.
Communicate as much of the following information as possible. You can add other
areas to write about if you wish.
At the time of the battle:
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where you have set out or marched from, and where your legion is camped
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that, at some specific time in the past the legion left the camp to attack an enemy
town, city or camp
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how your men fought, or acted, and the result this caused
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what you ordered your men to do or not to do because of this
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the question that ran through your mind when you considered the situation
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what your men did when or after the enemy had done something else
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what you saw or did, or where you went next, once the battle was over
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what your centurion thought or said about the battle or situation or about how
your soldiers or the enemy fought.
Since the battle:
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what the legion is doing today, while the enemy is doing something else
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what you hope will happen on the campaign in the future.
Your Latin
Make sure your sentences:
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are clear and unambiguous
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follow the conventions of Latin word order
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contain language beyond the immediate context, i.e. they refer to future and past
events as well as to the present and show use of voice and mood
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use correct inflections, structures and vocabulary
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are authentic and original (not copied from source material).
Final submission
Include the early drafts of your sentences and subsequent changes.
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Assessment schedule: Latin 90867 Report from the Front
Teacher note: If you use the same text for your assessment task, substitute the evidence statements with ones based on another text before
providing the schedule to students.
Evidence/Judgements for Achievement
Evidence/Judgements for Achievement
with merit
The student writes short Latin sentences that
demonstrate understanding of Latin.
The student writes short Latin sentences that
demonstrate clear understanding of Latin.
The student writes short Latin sentences that demonstrate
thorough understanding of Latin.
The student uses linguistic knowledge to write
a report to the Senate by the commander of a
Roman legion.
The student uses linguistic knowledge to write
a report to the Senate by the commander of a
Roman legion.
The student uses linguistic knowledge to write a report to
the Senate by the commander of a Roman legion.
The short Latin sentences are understandable
to another Latin reader, use Latin content at
Curriculum Levels 5 and 6 and include
language beyond the immediate context.
The short Latin sentences are understandable
to another Latin reader, use Latin content at
Curriculum Levels 5 and 6 and include
language beyond the immediate context.
Note: At all times, the quality of the writing is
more important than the length.
The student identifies and understands the
more difficult inflections, structures, and
vocabulary within the sentences and correctly
communicates meaning and detail in Latin.
Communication is not significantly hindered by
inconsistencies.
Note: At all times, the quality of the writing is
more important than the length.
For example (partial):
Army commander report to Rome after
defeating barbarians in a battle in 86BC
legio, itinere facto, castra prope barbaros
posuit.
deinde legio profecta est ut hostes
oppugnaret.
For example (partial):
Army commander report to Rome after
defeating barbarians in a battle in 86BC
legio, itinere multa milia passuum Brundisio
facto, castra prope barbaros posuit.
deinde legio ex castris profecta est ut oppidum
hostium oppugnaret.
Evidence/Judgements for Achievement with
Excellence
The short Latin sentences are understandable to another
Latin reader, use Latin content at Curriculum Levels 5 and
6 and include language beyond the immediate context.
The student identifies and understands the most difficult
inflections, structures, and vocabulary within the
sentences.
The student correctly and consistently communicates
meaning and detail in Latin and writes sentences that are
easy to understand and unambiguous.
Note: At all times, the quality of the writing is more
important than the length.
For example (partial):
Army commander report to Rome after defeating
barbarians in a battle in 86BC
legio, profecta Brundisio quinque ante mensibus, itinere
multa milia passuum facto, castra prope oppidum hostium
posuit.
abhinc dies multos, legio, omnibus militibus paratis, ex
castris profecta est ut oppidum ab hostibus captum
aggrederetur.
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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