Rome Classroom Based Assessment

Use the classroom books, your textbooks, and the links listed below to research one of the following focus questions:

1. Why do we know so much about what it was like to live in the Roman Empire in AD 79, and what was it like?
2. What led to the fall of the Roman Empire?

Design and author a layout of a 5th/6th grade level social studies textbook. The theme for your section on Ancient Rome should be based on one of the focus questions.
For the content of your page you will:

• select and describe a time period using specific primary sources.
• interpret the cause(s) for a particular historical event (or related events) in Ancient Rome using specific primary sources, such as written documents or artifacts.
• explain how the time period's geography affected how people lived and/or why events occurred.

Rome CBA Links

Roman Rulers

Medieval Sourcebook

Pompeii Exhibit

Forum of Pompeii Photos

Pompeii:Portents of Disaster

Pompeii Unravelling Ancient Mysteries

Ancient History Sourcebook:Rome

Maps for Students

Illustrated History of the Roman Empire

Odyssey Online Rome

Roma History & Civilization

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