Friday, October 4

Today’s Learning: How did Rome go from a republic to an empire?

Warm Up: Was Alexander of Macedonia great? Use the sources that we have used to study him – the video Age ofAlexander: Engineering an Empire and the readings Alexander the Great and Alexander’s Letter to King Darius – and determine whether in your opinion he was great. Use TWO pieces of evidence to support your conclusion on p. 33 of your notebook.

Class Work: Share your response with your assigned travel partner.

Introduction to Standard 3.4 and Geography of Italy presentation.

Please close read – underline, highlight, annotate – Part 1 – Rise of the Roman Republic – and Part 2 – The Expansion of the Republic – of Rome Supplemental Reading. Then complete the following sentence on p. 33 of your notebook:

“Rome expanded because _______________.”

Describe each story you hear on today’s CNN 10 in a sentence on p. 34 of your notebook.