Component 2: Culture and the Arts Study Guides
for A Level OCR Classical Civilisation
- H408/21 Greek Theatre
- H408/22 Imperial Image
Activities based on exam question styles help develop knowledge and skills
Plus! A full-colour PDF is included so that students can benefit from looking at the visual sources in colour!
Greek Theatre and Imperial Image
Each pack focuses on the study of visual and material culture, and the prescribed literature in translation, covering the specification requirements in three key sections:
- Section A: Historical context
- Section B: Understanding of the texts
- Section C: Exam advice and the topic as a whole
A thorough knowledge base:
Students will understand how the writers shape meaning, audience reception, diverse contexts and influences, and genres and literary traditions to write well-informed answers to their exam questions.
Skills development: Beyond insightful learning, students will develop the ability to respond critically to the sources and evaluate the impact of the classical world on the writing and the varied responses.
- For use in class, as homework or for independent study
- Drama and the theatre in ancient Athenian society
- Nature of tragedy
- Nature of (old) comedy
- Literary techniques, structure, and dramatic conventions
- Social, political and religious themes in tragedy
- Social, political and religious themes in comedy
- Prescribed visual/material sources
- Prescribed literary sources
- Divi filius
- Imperator
- ‘Augustus’
- Culture hero
- Pater Patriae
- Later representations
- Prescribed visual/material sources
- Prescribed literary sources
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What do teachers say about this resource? (12482)
On the whole, I thought this was a valuable resource and thorough in its scope. I would purchase this to aid in my teaching of this topic. I do teach A level Class Civ but haven't yet taught this module. Now I feel confident to do so! I liked the grouping of prescribed sources under topics, which would be very useful for essays. Also the worked questions are helpful for exam technique.
On the whole I thought this was an excellent resource, of the same high quality as previous zig zag classical material. The contents page was thorough. The use of italics provided variety eg p2 and so did bold and shading eg p4.There was a clear introduction p3 and activities well incorporated into the text eg p4,56,7,9-11,16-17 etc
I particularly liked the use of boxes and references to websites eg p4-6,not to mention generally clear illustrations from the start, breaking up the text.as well as side headings and podcasts/you tube links.
It enhances learning by filling a gap in the market as apart from the textbook there is very little else easily accessible, and students can get bored with the textbook and have more confidence in something published than a teacher’s handout. Its educational value is particularly apparent in the examination advice eg p7 et passim and the research sections will stretch the more able.
The layout/presentation were exemplary
I would definitely buy this. In addition to positives above, also liked the fact it would be helpful for GCSE myth and religion-symbols of power, eg p29-31,38-9,54-8/references to scholars eg Beard p.43 and the breaking up of long poems egp44-7.p3 had a good drawing and links to OCR helpful egp64.It was very thorough on the Res Gestae p64-75 with a good table on p72.,and equally on Suetonius,p81-7.Finally the tables p88-91 were impressive and the scholars p91-2,as well as examples of answers for shorter and longer questions.
What do teachers say about this resource? (11587)
This is a strong resource that I would love to use in my classroom. Thank you for producing it. It is informative and has a range of different activities that, in my opinion, match what learners could be asked in the exam. It includes a range of different resources to make it interesting for students to use and has some good prompts for me as the teacher that I could take further. I really like the weblinks as they give the students an additional source to learn from. It contains a lot of information in easy to read, digestible ways. It covers the course comprehensively and jumps between text and sources well. I like the inclusion of non-prescribed sources, because it gives students a wider range than just those I would give them.
An excellent resource. It is well written, has page references, illustrations... The teacher’s introduction was most helpful...It also keeps to the spec well as regarding themes, and the layout deliberately avoided narrative/chronological answers. The resource enhances learning by consolidating knowledge of the texts, but treads the tightrope well between too much and too little detail. Its educational value would be to stretch the most able by some of the activities while reassuring those who might get confused between the texts.
Attributions
Synopsis attribution: Athens, Theater of Dionysus, seen from the Acropolis courtesy of Marco Prins, Creative Commons Licence 1.0 Universal.