Hebdomas secunda - Week Two - Task set One

Week Two beginning January 29- task set one

Salvete omnes! (hello everyone).  Since it is hard for me to guess exactly how much material you will get through in a day, from here on out I am just going to post tasks, more or less in the order it makes sense to do them.

I am also going to offer some assignments that you may do independently using the classroom laptops and head sets.

I would like to call your attention to the collection of documents that I am adding to the site. You can see them listed right under the header.

Monday first tasks:

• Make sure your phones are zipped up in your backpacks from the moment you enter the class. If your phone is visible and the teacher asks for it, you must surrender it.
• During roll call the teacher will check and note who has signed course information packets, parent/guardian information sheets and the required course supplies. The signed papers are worth one 100% quiz grade and class supplies another 100% quiz grade.  The possible points for these items decrease every day you do not have them. 
• If you haven't played the game Two Truths and a Lie with your survey questions, do this now.
• Take about five minutes to read over all the questions for the film Rome: Engineering Empire and then watch the film. While you are watching the film, pay close attention to the visual information it conveys as well as the historical. Note the landscape, the buildings, the trees, stones, the art work, the way people look in sculptures.  Rome and Italy do not look so very different today.  However, then and now, the look of landscape and culture are very different from what you may be accustomed to if you haven't traveled out of the U.S. Note differences and similarities.

Watch at least the first 33 minutes, through Claudius' building of the aquaducts.  Here is what the narrator says just before the 33 minute mark:

>> Narrator: After reaching the city, each aqueduct emptied into three holding tanks-- one for the public drinking fountains, a second for the public baths and a third reserved for the emperor and other wealthy Romans who paid for their own running water, a concept that was well ahead of its time.

>> Basically every home by the first or second of any means had running water.

This is astounding, because the entire span of the middle ages, they didn't have this.

>> Narration: With the construction of the AQUA CLAUDIA and the ANIO NOVUS,emperor CLAUDIUS had revitalized Rome's system of water distribution.

His public record was one of success.