Class: World History

Grade: Ninth grade.

Class time: 50 minutes.

Materials:

Map of Europe

Text book

Note book

Pencil or Pen

Computers

Objective:

            To help the student learn what is the Roman Empire with class discussion and reading text to look more in dept for the student to understand why the Roman Empire was so influential in for a modern society.

Class activities:

Motivational activity:

Naming important areas in the map and how they originally were known. The students will go towards the map and say the name of the area and designate the portion of territory that belongs to each section. (10 minutes)

Learning activity:

            Reading text and explaining the circumstances of how Rome became powerful. There will be mentioning of important emperors and some of the main enemies of the Roman Empire to understand the fall of Rome. (40 minutes)

Closing activity:

            Using the computer interactive website to reinforced what has been discussed in class.( 5 minutes)

Homework:

            Bring a one page paper on what was the most interesting thing about the Roman Empire for them.