Roman
Living
Five-Day Lesson Plan For
Elementary Latin Students
by Anne Starkey, University
of Massachusetts - Amherst
Day Four
The Villa and Hypocausta
Fifty-Minute Lesson Plan
Preparation
Materials
- Transparencies, slides, pictures
- Computer with Internet connection
- All the construction materials
used for Day One-Three
- Four bricks, a cardboard box,
paper towel tubes
Introduction
- Have students alternate reading
handout aloud.
- Show pictures and slides.
- Ask: How does the villa
urbana compare to the domus and insula? Compare
and contrast decoration and artwork. Compare pictures of bedrooms.
- Explain to students Hellenistic
influence on Roman culture.
Translation exercise
Introduce Hypocausta
- Ask: What kind of heating system
does your home have? How does it work?
- Ask: Did the Romans need heating
systems? If they did, what classes or types of housing had heating
systems?
- Ask: Did other ancient civilizations
have developed heating systems?
- Have students read hypocausta
handout aloud.
- Show pictures and diagrams
of hypocausta.
Activities
- Ask for a volunteer to attempt
to set up Orata’s fish tank experiment using the cardboard
box as the tank and bricks to support it.
- Ask another student to explain
how the hypocaustum works.
- Ask another student to attach
the paper towel tubes as vents.
- Ask for several volunteers
to build the villa on Day Five.
- Ask for volunteers to build
a hypocaustum for the villa on Day Five.
- Have students make designs
for a villa. Have students vote on rooms to include in
the design. The volunteers will use the plan on Day Five.
- Have students work on landscape.
Translation
Exercise
Fundus meus, optime Quincti,
arvo dominum pascit opulentatque olivis, pomis, pratis et ulmo
amicta vitibus. Scribam tibi loquactiter de forma et situ agri.
Montes non sunt continui, sed opaca vallis dissociat eos. Sol
veniens dextrum latus vallis aspicit, discedens laevum latus
curru fugiente vaporat. Temperiem laudabis.
Benigni vepres rubicunda corna
et pruna ferunt. Quercus et ilex multa fruge pecus at multa umbra
dominum iuvant. Fons est etiam idoneus dare nomen rivo; Hebrus
nec frigidior nec purior Thraciam ambit. Aqua infirmo capiti
fluit utilis alvo. Hae laterbrae sunt dulces, etiam, si credis
mihi, amoenae. Incolumnem tibi me praestant Septembribus horis.
Horace, Letters, I.16
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Global Glossary Terms
- domus
- insula
- aqueduct
- hypocausta
- villa
- atrium
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