Unit is set up for students to work on an individual basis, although some days use collaborative groups of 2 or 4. Extra work may include Rome comic book, Gladiator or Rome Engineering movie, coliseums and Circus Maximus worksheets, website for “You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Gladiator”
Prep:
Each student creates a passport for ancient Rome and after each lesson is accomplished, that item will be stamped by their group's centurion. May have groups 5 + 6 create a folder to keep all their papers in, so that they do not “misplace” them, throughout the unit.
Geography + Beginnings – Hist. 1 + 2, Geog. 12-15
· Pass out map and have students color and label places.
· Geography worksheets
· Romulus + Remus guided reading.
· Act out Romulus and Remus play or show video clips.
Gods + goddesses – Hist. 1 + 2, Geog. 14
· Pass out mythology paper and have them compare to the Greek gods.
People + Government – Govt. 16 + 17
· Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Marc Anthony, Octavian (Augustus)
· Role play a Republic
Achievements - Hist. 1 + 2, Geog. 14, Econ. 20 + 21
· Architecture – roads, milestones, tombstones (create your own epitaph), arches, domes, aqueduct (demonstration of siphoning action)
· Language – capital letters, Latin match-up, calendars (create one)
· Roman numerals and wax tablet + stylus (optional)
Soldiers – Hist. 1, 2, 10, Econ. 20 + 21
· Anticipation guide, together as a class
· Graphic organizer from video
· Create red Roman Army needs you ad
· Persuasive letter to a friend to come and join you in the Army.
Society – Hist. 1 + 2 (optional lesson)
· Guided reading
· Clothing – create a bulla (optional)
· Dress the part with tunics and togas.
· Housing – create a mosaic
· Checkers, chess, jacks, marbles while doing make-up work and foods
· Garlic bread and salad
Christianity – Hist. 1, 2, 7
· Movie with worksheet
· Mini-lecture on Christianity and the Protestant Reformation
· Take a poll of denominations
Vocabulary / binder or passport grade / review / individual test / open notes test
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." - Thomas Jefferson