Continuing our book study, we read the first two chapters of the Gross and Disgusting History of Ancient Rome. We learned about community latrines and how urine is effective for cleaning clothes. Gross! But the students enjoyed this reading a lot!
We will continue that book later this week, but we are spending the early part of the week on, the less gross but more dry, history of Roman government. We are using this presidential election season to raise student awareness of how much the US government is borrowed from the Romans. Might be something to ask about tonight at the dinner table...
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We are well into our study of Roman History via our book Ancient Rome by Peter Benoit. This is giving us a chance to learn techniques for reading non-fiction text as we learn Roman history. We are pretty much going to be doing a pattern of read, take notes, take a quiz while we read this book. The first quiz last Friday didn't go well for many students so we have talked about some strategies to help improve scores. I am hoping that Thursday's quiz will go much better.
We have begun our study of Rome this week with the documentary Rome: Engineering an Empire. We are seeing a broad view of the city of Rome, some of it's most famous, and notorious, Emperors, and it's engineering achievements. We have seen the Aqueducts, the Coliseum, and Hadrian's Wall. Later this week we will start a book study. We are going to work on non-fiction reading skills as we read a chapter book on Roman history. My plan at this point is to introduce the sign posts on Thursday and get started on the book Friday.
We will be doing a lot of this work in class so I wouldn't expect much homework from this class over the next several weeks. We will be doing comprehension quizzes on the text as we go. Let me know if you have any questions. |
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