? starter activity

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? starter activity
What do these images tell us about attitudes
towards women in Ancient Rome? ?What are some of
the problems in finding out about women in
history?
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What was the role of a Roman woman?
? Key words dowry paterfamilia / materfamilia
? Learning objectives

• To investigate the role of a woman
• To judge who was most important to the household

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• ? Your task
• Each table has a different woman which they need
  to create a dating profile for. Make sure you
  include
• A picture
• Name
• Likes
• Dislikes
• Previous relationships
• Special skills
• About me blurb

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? Your task You are now going to take on the
role of a man looking for a wife. You will have 4
minutes at each table. In that time you will need
to list the positives and negatives of each woman
in your chart. ?Extension Colour code your
information into domestic duties, motherhood and
rights
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? Your task As a table, you now need to decide
who you would like to marry. Be ready to explain
why. Extension Which category of qualities do
you think would have been the most important to a
roman man?
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? Homework

• Design your own perfect Roman couple and make
  sure you annotate them to explain what makes them
  so perfect using the information you have learnt
  over the last lessons.

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? Extension task
Supplement your work with your own research
there are some good links to sites such as this
on Studyhistory
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? Plenary

• Last lesson you decided how important a
  paterfamilias was to a roman household on a scale
  of 1-5.
• What rating would you give a roman woman?
• Who do you think was the most important to the
  roman household and why?

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What was the role of a Roman woman?
? Key words dowry paterfamilia / materfamilia
? Learning objectives

• To investigate the role of a woman
• To judge who was most important to the household