Have you ever wondered what it was like to live in ancient Rome? Check out my Rotten Romans Unit Study, and discover some rotten Roman habits (like burping at the table to show you enjoyed your dinner)!
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Rotten Romans {Horrible Histories} by Terry Deary
Rotten Romans by Terry Deary follows life for folks in Roman Britain from Nero to Boudicca and includes a look at gory games, rotten recipes, and loads of frightening facts.
Suggested Schedule
We try to have a light workload on Fridays, so we read the entire book in just four days. This is the reading schedule we followed:
- 1st Day- Read pages 5-36
- 2nd Day- Read pages 37-69
- 3rd Day- Read pages 70-102
- 4th Day- Read pages 103-128
- 5th Day- Complete quiz on pages 129-133
I love that Terry Deary has included not only a quiz at the end of the book, but also multiple little quizzes mixed into the pages! Jack and Julia love competing against each other to see who gets the most correct answers. The tidbits that are added to the answer keys are equally as entertaining at the rest of the book.
Extras…
This year I am using the whole Horrible Histories set with Julia and Jack as our core history curriculum. As I am sure you have already figured out these books are not a curriculum on their own, so I will be adding extra materials to our schedule to take our learning a step further. Want to join in on the fun? Here is everything I added in this week:
Books
In addition to Rotten Romans we also read:
- You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Roman Gladiator! by John Malam
- Who Was Julius Caesar? by Nico Madina
- DK Eyewitness Books: Ancient Rome by Simon James
- Graphic Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
Videos
This week we continued watching Horrible Histories on Amazon Video. You may notice that we switched up the version we are watching though… I made this change because each of these episodes focuses on just one era, and are easier to find the correct episode that relates to the era we are currently studying. Since we are studying the Romans we skipped to Horrible Histories, S1 Episode 3 “Rotten Romans”. Jack and Julia both enjoyed the silly animation in this episode, and got to learn more about Julius Caesar.
A few days later we started a new series on Netflix called Empire Games. Season 1 Episode 1 focuses on Rome’s imperial dynasty before and after the assassination of Julius Caesar. This episode does a great job explaining who was involved in the betrayal of Caesar and why they did it.
Thank you for checking out my Rotten Romans Unit Study…
I hope you find these resources useful. We have already completed a few other Horrible Histories Unit Studies. Check them out:
Savage Stone Age
Awesome Egyptians
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