Students will develop the following skills:
-Historical Investigation: learning from primary and secondary sources about historical events, their causes, and their effects.
-Historical Writing: Learning to argue for a position about history based on primary-source evidence.

I have been tutoring both Greek and Latin for the last five years, having taught Latin in school for the last two. I have taught a high school literature class that enables students to earn college credit.

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Homework
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詳細: Students will do the assigned readings from the book in between lessons. Primary-source excerpts will often accompany.
Assessment
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詳細: Students will submit a 5-paragraph argumentative essay, reflecting on the part of Roman society and history that they found most interesting. The essay must include a thesis statement with three body paragraphs defending it.

Our main source will be "The Ancient Roman World," available in print and on Audible. Each lesson will be based on the assigned readings from this book, so ordering it will be required.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Ancient-Roman-World/dp/B00BXOOH4M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=36E9S8DBSYZO1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.im1zmPTexMlLddMh7wAd88YhbH7cSuoRHFfZeYgC5u8vLKbUvCb4uBztBCewfGc4uOdF-kAbv34RKPhb2nAZ0vLrIA-pUlE9-U2O816iYVZCWd09y_jZ4TF3lUa5grf8CSyVjbEBuG8EgwziIJKSMKuazbH-6w83nQ1JOP_mxNk.NEFK8d45cUAVEITxqqPuPncHUk71qxVU2Nr7S15NIK4&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+ancient+roman+world+ronald+mellor&qid=1717445309&sprefix=the+ancient+roman+world+%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-1

Authors: Ronald J. Mellor, having earned his PhD in Classics at Princeton, has taught in the subject at Stanford and UCLA.. Marni McGee, having earned her BA in English with Highest Honors at UNC and her MA in Religion at UCLA, has written 22 children's books.

Links will be provided each week, and we will read them in class.

Primary sources will include excerpts from the following:
"On the Gathering of Ideas" by Seneca
"The History of Rome" by Titus Livius
"The Life of Cato the Elder" "The Life of Gaius Gracchus" and "The Life of Cicero" by Plutarch