Week 3

Gladiator movie
This week we completed the movie Gladiator, where hopefully the understanding of the technology and progress that had occurred was easy to see.
Students then completed a Roman Soldier webquest, explaining the ability of the roman army and how important and influential it was to the success of the empire.


The class were taught to use a blog as their class work book, so each week they will have a blog post that can be marked.

The class were then given the chance to design their own gladiator shield or mask, which will be decorating the walls of S1 over the next few days.

As a summary to the technology throughout Roman times, the class were given a choice of 4 key inventions from the time; concrete, aqueducts, roman numerals and the colloseum. You had to choose 2 from the list and complete the following;
1) what is it?
2) add in a picture of it
3) explain how it works and how was it used?
4) state 3 important facts
5) explain if it would be useful today or not.

It is really important that when you are answering these questions, instead of just cutting and pasting the information, you read the work and then answer it in your own words. This will improve your understanding of the topic.

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