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Monday 5/18

AS ALWAYS PLEASE TITLE YOUR WORK AND PUT IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES FOLDER SO I CAN GRADE YOU!  This title will be THE ROMAN FORUM NOTES
  • Please READ pages 296 and 297
  • Let's answer the QUESTION #3 on page 297
  • MAKE SURE you think about this hard and write AT LEAST 5 sentences. 
  • Even think about TODAY in your answer, and maybe comment if we have places like the FORUM or what that word might mean to us today!!!!  Look up a definition!
  • And i posted a couple videos to look and see what the Forum looked like BACK THEN and TODAY.  

tuesday 5/19

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What I would like you to do today is practice some writing.  It will be a CER paragraph where you ponder the situation about Rome's Republic:

Rome is undergoing some serious problems right now, we are very proud of electing our leaders in a Republic.  But because of these problems, we are contemplating electing a DICTATOR that is all powerful for a short period of time to get through these bad times. 
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  • Are you in favor of electing a dictator or are you against?
  • Write this out in a CER paragraph that is at least 6 sentences long
  • This is good practice and you can write loosely, but give it a good effort!
  • Read the excerpt to the right for an example of a good dictator and think about what you know about dictators where they could be bad too.
  • PICK ONE SIDE and write :)

REMINDER:  check this picture to the right for a great helper to create your paragraph.

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SOURCE:  Occasionally, an emergency situation (such as a war) arose that required the decisive leadership of one individual. Under these circumstances, the Senate and the consuls could appoint a temporary dictator to rule for a limited time until the crisis was resolved. The position of dictator was very undemocratic in nature. Indeed, a dictator had all the power, made decisions without any approval, and had full control over the military.
The best example of an ideal dictator was a Roman citizen named Cincinnatus. During a severe military emergency, the Roman Senate called Cincinnatus from his farm to serve as dictator and to lead the Roman army. When Cincinnatus stepped down from the dictatorship and returned to his farm only 15 days after he successfully defeated Rome's enemies, the republican leaders resumed control over Rome.

Wednesday 5/20

Thanks for the hard work yesterday everybody!

FIRST, let's take a look at everyday life in Rome.  Watch this video and take some basic notes.

edpuzzle.com/assignments/5ec544b8e7e7473ef8a043f8/watch

Let's review the POLITICAL AND SOCIAL structure during the Republic with this video.  Take good notes on the video below.
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thursday 5/21

Please read pages 302 and 303 and create an Adobe Spark video explaining your favorite 6 Roman gods or godesses.  Have fun with it and it's due on NEXT TUESDAY, you can work on it Thursday/Friday.

If you have any trouble, you can just complete a short Google Slide on the subject.

Also, if you need more info or you are curious on the subject you can watch this video on Roman mythology:  edpuzzle.com/assignments/5ec5483941dd663ef89d5578/watch

Friday 5/22

Zoom meeting at 2pm and IF YOU ARE READY TO TURN IN THE ROMAN GODS ADOBE SPARK here's the link to Edmodo - new.edmodo.com/post/760517537

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/99449722235?pwd=SFRHSFNTV2RkOUdZZkhIeUE1akQwZz09

Meeting ID: 994 4972 2235
Password: 2pZ77A

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