Year 7 Essay Help

Hi Year 7 I have set you an Essay to work on and hand in to me before the end of term. You have an essay structure I have given to you and I also have a bunch of websites below which will help you with your research:

Excellent Romans Website

A More details website for high level students

Another high level website

Primary History Website

Games on the Romans

Why the Roman army was so successful: Will & Cameron

What did we learn last lesson?
We were learning about why the roman army was so succeseful and why they were the best and smartest army that ever fought. Als owe learnt about their equipment and what it was useful for and why their statistics were very accurate and smart.

What was todays task?
Well the first task was to write the words that describe roman soilders. The next task was to draw 2 pictures that annitate the words that you have written on your whiteboard also sir wanted us to divide our page into 2 and on 1 picture it would have a roman soilder with a perfect soilder and the other is with what he wouldn't want them to look like. (they had 10 mins) Cameron and I chose some outstanding pictures and key words that some students have produced to come out to the front and share their ideas.(they then had another 5 mins) Their next task was to talk about the roman army's tactics. They talked about why 'The tortise ' was a good tactic. (they had 4 mins)

What have students learnt?
They have learnt what a roman soilder should look like and not look like also the key words for a roman soilder.They have also learnt how to draw a proper and in-proper roman soilder.Also they have learnt how the roman army got organise and how they planned to fight in a battle.
Some of the students told me the tortise tactic was a good tactic because it protects you from the javelins and even rain or snow or the other army's archers and equipment.

Todays homework is?
Their homework set today was to write 1 page on What amkes a really good roman soilder succesful.

7D Aspects of Roman Life by: Ben J and Cameron M

                                                               The Legend Of Romulus And Remus
Today our tasks were
In pairs we are given pieces of information of a certain subject that has to do with ancient rome, these subjects were:
entertainment,education, roads and transport, cloyhing, food and housing.we had to make posters on these certain subjects in pairs in ten minutes, only using 5 words on it. So it was mostly pictures. Everyone worked well on this task.after one of the pair must go around and get information from the people who stayed.everyone is engoying the task because it is very interactive and creative.


What we learnt as a class was:

evreyone was interacting and having fun teaching/ learning about the romans and the differant things they did. we have learnt about the differant foods that the romans ate including cheese eggs and bread and how it was very hard to get around rome.



What our classmates said about today's lesson was:

Everyone learnt something in todays lesson about ancient rome.99% of people enjoyed the lesson while learning something in the progress. we all learnt the differant aspects of roman life and now look at them in a differant prospective. We all managed to learn atleast 1 thing this lesson. The roads were made out of rocks and pebbles and there was no plumbing in the city or the country.




Our Homework for next week is:
to finish our fact file if we have not finished it about the roman life style

7S The Roman Empire

Our Tasks Today Were:
To answer the questions given on the worksheet about the Roman Empire, provinves and their government.
To know where the romans ruled on a map.

What the students learnt:
The students learnt that a province is a country that has been conquered by another country which is then ruled by the country that has conquered it. An Empire is a group of countries controlled by one government or person: this could be an Emperor (male leader) or Empress (female leader).They also learnt some new words such as senator - a governor, Conquered - a country that has been attacked, dispute - when people have an arguement. They also learnt that a governor runs a city, but can't do more than one thing, so they have a competent which is a person who knows what he/she is doing in their job/employment.

Aspects of Roman Life by Ralph and Daniil 7S

By Ralph and Daniil 7S

Today our task is:
Today the class (in pairs) will do a poster on a part of the roman aspect of life (clothing) by using the information they found out the information sheet. The harder challenge is that they can only use a limit of 5 words on the poster.Once that is done, they are each going to present to each other their part in the roman aspect of life and filling in the sheet of all the parts of roman aspect of life.When finished, in their books they have to dona roman fact file- a short paragraph (2-3 sentences).


What we learnt as a class was:
The class of 7S today learnt about the roman aspect of life- Public health, Government, Roads and transport, Clothing, Food and Housing. (Roads and transport) They found out that in the roman time, their roads were made in 5 different ways to complete the whole road. (Public health) They also found out that the Romans public health was that woman and men had to take showers in cold, warm and hot. temperatures. (Clothing) most of they're clothing was made out of wool and cotton. (Government) Only rich people can vote for the government. (Housing) in poor houses it was dangerous to go up on the 3rd floor because their houses were usually made of mud.(Food) In the roman time, they always ate porridge, wheat as well as fish.


What classmates said about today's lesson:
The class really enjoyed the task that was set today and found it really challenging by only using a limit of 5 words. Some said it was exciting because they enjoy making posters. Some said the challenge was hard some say it was OK and others say it was not very easy. Some really liked working in pairs, they thought it was fun.

Student Work Story-line

The Legend of Ancient Rome Quiz

Hi Guys,

I hope you enjoyed today's first lesson on The Romans! Below is the link to the quiz I asked you to have a go at however if you want to read the story again before doing the quiz click here. If you would rarther watch the video then click on the picture.

Quiz

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Lessons/Legendofrome/missingwords.htm

Welcome

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