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Students will cover important aspects of Ancient Rome and will conduct research using their social studies textbook and the Internet as their main resources. Through the process of creating brochures, students will demonstrate critical thinking and analytic skills as well as an understanding for the subject matter. Remember, this unit plan can be adapted to the study of any ancient civilization!

OBJECTIVE

Students will:

1. Create travel brochures. I call this our "Ancient Rome Itinerary."
2. Provide historical evidence to reflect our studies within their travel brochure.

LESSONS FOR THIS UNIT
Lesson 1: Create a Travel Brochure

CULMINATING ACTIVITY

Our class will tour Ancient Rome and every student will have a chance to "guide" the class to an important destination or conduct a class presentation on the topic of his or her travel brochure.

SUPPORTING BOOKS

Books for Teaching Ancient Civilizations

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LESSON PLAN	Create a Travel Brochure Details a lesson in which students learn about Ancient Roman civilization by researching and creating an extensive, mock travel brochure.