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Exploring Ancient Civilizations: Rome

Lesson 21

ELA

Unit 6

3rd Grade

Lesson 21 of 22

These assessments accompany this unit to help gauge student understanding of key unit content and skills.

Content Assessment

The Content Assessment pushes students to synthesize unit content knowledge or unit essential questions in writing. The Content Assessment should be used as the primary assessment because it shows mastery of unit content knowledge and standards. This assessment should take approximately one class period.

Cold Read Assessment

The Cold Read Assessment tests students' ability to comprehend a "cold" or unfamiliar passage and answer standards-based questions. The Cold Read Assessment can be given in addition to the Content Assessment as a pulse point for what students can read and analyze independently, a skill often required for standardized testing. This assessment should take approximately one class period.

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Lesson Map

Describe how the Roman Army shaped the future of the Roman Empire.

Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13 pp. 13–18

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.3RI.3.5

Explain how the author uses different text features and illustrations to describe how the Roman Empire was founded.

Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome pp. 4–11

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.3RI.3.5RI.3.7

Make sentences better and more informative by adding more details.

Standards

L.3.1.fL.3.1.i

Explain why the Romans were always ready for war.

Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13 pp. 41–54

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.3

Explain how the text features and illustrations help build a deeper understanding of the Roman army.

Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome pp. 12–15

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.5RI.3.7

Write multiple sentences using the conjunction because to explain how powerful and organized the Roman army was.

Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13
Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome

Standards

L.3.1L.3.1.hRI.3.3

Describe the three groups of people in ancient Rome and explain why they were important for the success of the civilization.

“Roman Class Structure”
Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13 pp. 19–23

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.5

Describe what life was like for enslaved people in the Roman Empire.

Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome pp. 34–35

Standards

RI.3.3RI.3.5RI.3.7

Write multiple sentences using the conjunctions but and so to explain why each role in society was important.

“Roman Class Structure”
Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13
Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome

Standards

L.3.1L.3.1.hL.3.1.iRI.3.3

Describe what the chapter “The Eternal City” is mostly about and why the structures described were important in Ancient Rome.

Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13 pp. 24–37

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.7

Explain how the author uses different text features and illustrations to support the idea that gladiators and bath houses were an important part of Roman society.

Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome pp. 24–27

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.5

Explain what life was like in ancient Rome and what daily routines and structures show us about what ancient Romans valued.

Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome — 16–17, 20–21, 22–23

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.7

Explain what life was like in ancient Rome and what daily routines and structures show us about what ancient Romans valued.

Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome — 28–29, 30–31, 32–33

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.5RI.3.7

Write multiple sentences using the conjunctions "because," "but," and "so" to explain what life was like in Ancient Rome.

Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome

Standards

L.3.1.fL.3.1.hL.3.1.iRI.3.3

Explain the role that gods, worship, trade and transportation played in the Roman Empire.

Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome pp. 38–41

Standards

RI.3.3RI.3.7

Describe Hannibal, Julius Caesar, and Octavian, including what type of leaders they were and why.

Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13 pp. 55–67

Standards

RI.3.2RI.3.3

Explain what caused the fall of the Roman Empire.

“The Fall of the Roman Empire”

Standards

RI.3.3

Explain the significance of the heading “The empire lives on."

Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13 pp. 103–104
Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome pp. 42–45

Standards

RI.3.3

Compare and contrast both unit texts by comparing and contrasting the most important key details presented in both texts.

Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13

Standards

RI.3.9

Discuss and debate unit-essential questions by stating a claim and using evidence from multiple texts to support and defend the claim.

Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13
Eye Wonder: Ancient Rome

Standards

SL.3.1SL.3.1.aSL.3.1.d

Gauge student understanding of unit content and skills with one of Fishtank's unit assessments.

Informative Writing

4 days

Research another ancient Rome topic and create a brochure and visual representation to show what you learned.

Informational Writing Rubric (G3)

Standards

L.3.2.fW.3.2W.3.2.aW.3.2.bW.3.7W.3.8

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