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Welcome to making blog posts during the Roman Empire unit for World History.  Instead of completing the typical social studies activities of reading from a textbook, completing vocabulary assignments, watching videos and writing summaries of key events for the instructor to read, we're going to embark in a different way to learn about and discuss some of the key people and events during the time of the Roman Empire.

The objectives for this unit are:

-learner writes clear and concise blog posts about the Roman Empire

-create a five paragraph essay about gladiators

-students comment on peer's entries and give objective feedback 

-learner reviews comments by peers and incorporates those comments in a re-posting

-students summarizes section information by using the text and/or web sites and giving the "big ideas"

Students will be working on this activity for the next three weeks by using this Pbwiki site and PowerPoint presentations for sections 7.1 to 7.5 as reference tools.  They will be creating their own blog site that will contain nine different posts throughout the unit.  In addition, learners will be expected to analyze and make comments to work done on peer's blog sites on four different occasions.  The students will utilize the comments made by peers to reinvestigate some previous posts and re-post them with revisions.