Tableaux Vivants (Freeze Frame) Living Pictures (Social Studies and Science) Teams of 3-4 In a Tableaux Vivant a group

of students pose in a living picture of an event or idea. It can be used for, timelines or events or it can be used in more abstract ideas such as the Bill or Rights or the Laws of Motion. The teacher or a student will read the scene then freeze. You can take a picture of the tableaux afterwards. Each group of students can do a different scene or each group can do the entire list. For today, your group will choose 8 events, design a tableaux vivant, pose, and take a picture. Please add a caption (a piece of a paper) with the year in each picture. Rotate who takes the picture. When you are done, create your own lesson using tableaux vivants from a topic in your teaching. Roman Timeline 1 753 BC Rome is founded Rome was founded by Romulus. Romulus was the first of the seven Roman kings. The original name of Rome was Roma. 2 509 BC Rome becomes a Republic The last king is expelled and Rome is now ruled by senators. There is a constitution with laws and Rome becomes a complex republican government. 3 218 BC Hannibal invades Italy Hannibal leads the Carthage army to attack Italy. This becomes part of the Second Punic War. 4 45 BC Julius Caesar becomes the first dictator of Rome Julius Caesar defeats Pompey in a civil war. He becomes the supreme ruler of Rome. This is the end of the Roman Republic. He hires Sosigenes, an Egyptian astronomer, to work out a new 12 month calendar. 5 44 BC Julius Caesar is assassinated Julius Caesar is assassinated on the Ides of March by Marcus Brutus. They hope to bring back the republic, but civil war breaks out instead. 6 27 BC Roman Empire begins

Octavius appoints himself "Augustus", which means the first emperor. 7 64 Much of Rome burns Nero set fire to Rome and blames the Christians for it. 8 80 Colosseum is built The Colosseum was built in 80 AD. The completion of the Colosseum was celebrated with 100 days of games. The Romans invade Scotland. 9 122 Hadrian Wall is built The Hadrian Wall was built in 122 AD. It was a long wall built across northern England in an effort to keep the barbarians out. 10 306 Constantine becomes Emperor in 306 AD Rome becomes a Christian empire. Before this, Rome persecuted the Christians. Constantius dies. His son Constantine is the new vice-emperor of Galerius. 11 380 Christianity Theodosius I proclaims Christianity as the sole religion of the Roman Empire in 380 AD. 12 395 Rome splits In 395 AD, Rome split into two empires - the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. Each side had a ruler in charge of it. The Roman Empire was split by Theodosius. 13 410 The Visigoths sack Rome This was the first time in 800 years that the city of Rome has fallen to an enemy. It was a huge uproar. 14 476 End of the Western Roman Empire and the fall of Ancient Rome The last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus is defeated by the German Goth Odoacer. This is the start of the Dark Ages in Europe. Excerpted from http://www.softschools.com/timelines/roman_empire/timeline_9/

Choral ReadingsAuditory (Science, Language Arts, Social Studies). When readers come to a dense historic or scientific text, they need to slow it down and read deeply. Having students real chorally allows all students, regardless of their reading level, to hear and speak the lines in deep ways. Gettysburg Address
Group 1 2 1 2 ALL 1 2 ALL 1 2 ALL 1 2 ALL Lines Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place

Choral Reading Activity

Newtons First Law An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
The Beginning of Digestion When food enters the mouth, digestion of the food starts by the action chewing, a form of mechanical digestion, and the wetting contact of saliva. Saliva, a liquid secreted by the salivary glands, contains salivary amylase, an enzyme which starts the digestion of starch in the food. After undergoing chewing and starch digestion, the food will be in the form of a small, round slurry mass called a bolus. It will then travel down the esophagus and into the stomach by the action of peristalsis. Gastric juice in the stomach starts protein digestion. Gastric juice mainly contains hydrochloric acid and pepsin. As these two chemicals may damage the stomach wall, mucus is secreted by the stomach, providing a slimy layer that acts as a shield against the damaging effects of the chemicals