Standard(s):
[LAT] LA1 (7-12) 5 : 5) Investigate and describe elements of Roman daily life.
Examples: Calendar, household gods, government, family, social organization, Roman games, and holidays like Saturnalia.
[LAT] LA1 (7-12) 7 : 7) Investigate and describe elements of Roman material culture.
Examples: Temples, architecture, food, and clothing.
[LAT] LA1 (7-12) 8 : 8) Locate historically important cities and major geographical features of Italy and Western Europe, and describe their ancient and modern significance.
Examples: Rome, Pompeii, Capua, Ostia, and Brundisium.
Examples: The Tiber, Arno, and Po rivers, the Appian Way, Etruria, Britannia, Gallia, Germania, Graecia, Mare Nostrum, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, and the Alps.
[LAT] LA2 (7-12) 6 : 6) Locate historically significant cities, countries, and geographical features of the ancient Mediterranean world, and describe their relationship to their modern counterparts.
Examples: Carthage, Troy, Alexandria, Athens, Delphi, Constantinople; divisions of Gaul, Phoenicia, Magna Graecia, Crete, Sicily; Rubicon, Po, Nile, and Rhine rivers, the Alps and Pyrenees mountains.
[LAT] LA2 (7-12) 11 : 11) Compare the geography and social, political, legal, military, and economic systems of the Roman world to systems of the modern world.
Example: Compare a map of the provinces of the Roman Empire to a modern map of the Mediterranean region.
[LAT] LA3 (7-12) 4 : 4) Relate Roman cultural products to perspectives.
a. Investigate and describe values and perspectives in Roman prose authors.
Example: Values of pietas and gravitas found in the writings of Pliny.
b. Analyze important people in Roman history and literature to determine their cultural significance.
Examples: Gracchi brothers, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Catiline, Sallust, Livy, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Seneca, or Tacitus.
[LAT] LA3 (7-12) 5 : 5) Relate Roman cultural practices to perspectives.
a. Contrast the ideals of Roman political factions in the first Century B.C.E.
Example: The conflict between Cicero and Catiline, the proposed policies of the optimates and populares.