Latin / Levels 9 and 10 / Understanding / Reflecting
Content description
Reflect on self as a language learner, explaining how the study of Latin influences own style of communicating, ways of thinking and viewing the world
Elaborations
exploring own sense of identity, challenging own and others’ assumptions about family and civic responsibilities, traditions, values and attitudes
drawing on knowledge of ancient society to examine and interpret own world, including aspects such as ancestry, values, traditions, social status, family and national pride
reflecting, such as in discussions, blogs and journals, on experiences in the course of learning Latin and their impact on perceptions of own cultural experience and ways of communicating
identifying challenges and achievements associated with learning Latin, for example, learning to ‘read between the lines’ to identify thought implicit in the use of language
reinterpreting own experience of learning Latin, listening to others’ perspectives and comparing these with own experience
discussing how learning Latin impacts on own ways of thinking and viewing the world
