"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears!"
ROME DAY 2016!
As an end to our Rome and Byzantine unit, seventh grade participated in the sixth annual "Rome Day" celebration. Dressed in their finest Roman garb, patricians, plebeians, legionaries, and slaves alike attended the Colosseum for theater, the Circus Maximus for chariot racing, and tested ancient math and science skills through the use of Roman numerals and strategy games. Infamous emperors and the usual meal of baked dormice were replaced by the finer aspects of ancient Roman influence. The day ended with a feast of delicacies and the Thieves of Ostia movie. And, as for these exuberant seventh-grade Romans: “They Came. They Saw. They Conquered."