8th Grade Curriculum

Unit: Ancient Rome (PDF - Printable Version)

Highlighted Questions - Thematic Essential Questions focused on during this unit.

Ancient Rome Unit Website

 

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Assessments

Standards

1. Why do people live and move where they do?

 

 

Ancient History Green Atlas Questions

 

RIGSE: 5-1 – Many ways Earth’s people are interconnected

RIGSE: 5-2 – Interconnected World

RIGSE: 5-3 – Choices Interconnected world

RIGSE HP 2

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3

Era 4 WH 5,6,7

Era 5 WH 1

2. Why do people live the way they do?

Activity 1.1 Discovering Etruscan and Greek Influences on Roman Civilization

 

Activity 2.2  Writing a Travel Guide About Daily Life in Ancient Rome

 

Activity 3.1 The Spread of Christianity

Chapter 7.3

 

Chapter 7.4

Video:  The first Christians

 

RIGSE G&C 1-4
RIGSE HP 1-3

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3,4

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Era 5 WH 1,2

3. How and why do human societies organized the way they do?

Activity 1.2 Patricians and Plebeians:  Experiencing the Struggle for Power

 

Activity 2.1 Creating Columns to Evaluate Roman Emperors

Chapter 7.1

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1-2, 4

Era 1 WH 2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3,4

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,4,5,6

Era 5 WH 1,2

4. How does technology affect people’s lives?

 

Chapter 7.2

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 5

RIGSE – HP1

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3,4

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,6

Era 5 WH 1,2

5. How has conflict and cooperation shaped human history?

Activity 1.3  Predicting the Outcomes of the Punic Wars Between Rome and Carthage

 

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,3,5

RIGSE – HP1,2,3

Era 2 WH 1,3

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3

Era 5 WH 1,2

6. How has the quest for resources affected human history?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 2 WH 1,2,3

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 5 WH 1,2

7. How do we know what we know about human history?

 

 

 

 

RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

Era 1 WH 1,2

Era 3 WH 1,4

Era 4 WH 1,5,6

8. Why do civilizations rise & decline?

Activity 1.4  Debating Whether Military Expansion Helped or Hurt Rome

Chapter 7.2

 

Chapter 7.5

 

 

RIGSE – G&C 1,5
RIGSE – HP 1,2,3

Era 2 WH 1,2,3

Era 3 WH 1,2,3,4,5

Era 4 WH 1,2,3,5,6,7

Era 5 WH 1,2