1. Would you really want to be a...

2. The Barbarian Tribe
It is the 1st century AD and you live in a village in the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunenesis.
Modern day France was called Gallia by the ancient Romans. People from Gallia were called Gauls.
You don't like the Romans much, and the feeling is mutual.

3. Facts to Date
The Romans invaded your territory more than 100 years ago to build up the huge Roman Empire.
The Romans say your people are uncivilized. They call you “barbarians.”
You and your people are not very happy with the Romans. You plan an uprising.
The Romans learn of your little uprising and attack you to “put you in your place.”

4. Gotcha!
The Roman soldiers wear armor and follow a carefully worked-out battle plan.
Your people are not so well organized.
The fighting is soon over and unfortunately for you, your tribe lost the battle.
You are now one of the prisoners.
It is the end of your life as a Gaul and you must suffer the consequences of your “little uprising.”

5. What do you think will happen to your...
Home and family?
Horse and chariot?
Weapons?
Jewelery?
WHST Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

6. What is next?
You are chained at the neck and led away to begin a new life as a slave.
You are marched hundreds of miles from Gallia to Rome, the heart of the Roman Empire.
The journey is long and difficult and the weaker slaves die along the way — the victims of hunger, disease and beatings.
But lucky you, you are among the survivors, headed towards the slave markets of Rome.

7. Sold!
When you finally arrive in Rome, you are passed on to a slave-dealer, who buys and sells slaves.
The dealer takes you to a slave market where you stand on a platform for everyone to see. Slaves with diseases are made to hold a sign so that people know there is something wrong with them.

8. Your Fate!
You have been bought by a wealthy Roman, who plans to turn you from a Gallia comata (hairy Gaul) into a civilized Roman gladiator.
You will be trained to fight and will entertain the Romans in the arena.
Fame could be yours, if you like that sort of thing.

9. You are one of the lucky ones...
Mining
Some slaves are sent to work in mines. They may never see daylight again. They die soon.
Quarrying
Slaves also work in the heat and dust of quarries, breaking rock for buildings and sculptures. They die soon.
Rowing
Some men will become galley slaves, rowing the Roman navy's fighting ships. At least they are in fresh air, but they die soon.
Farming
Slaves on farms work in all weathers to grow food for the Romans. Fresh air is good. If they have a good owner, life is longer. If they don’t, they die soon.

10. School Days...
Your new owner has decided you will be sent to a ludus gladiatorius (a school where slaves and criminals are trained to fight as gladiators).
Once inside, the gates will be locked and there will be no escape. You'll be trained to fight by a lanista or ‘butcher’ (a retired gladiator whose fighting days in the arena are over).

11. New Arrival...
Your owner will hand you over to a trainer – a tough man who will teach you how to be a gladiator.
You'll exercise every day with weights to build up your body's strength.
Until you can be trusted with a real weapon you will practice with a wooden sword.

12. Training
You'll learn how to fight with a sword, practicing on a ‘man of straw’.
If you don't train hard enough you'll feel the sting of a whip on your back from Mr. Nasty.

13. Meet the staff...
Get to know your place at the school. The staff are the bossy Romans looking after you. It is their job to prepare you to fight in the arena.

14. Gladiator Training
Trained like true athletes , received medical attention and three meals a day
Training included learning how to use various weapons, including the war chain, net, trident, dagger, and lasso
Were paid each time they fought. If a gladiator survived three to five years of combat, they were freed.

15. Meet the Gladiators...
In your training you will have learned how to fight as one particular type of gladiator. It has cost your owner a lot of money to buy you, feed, train and equip you for the contest. Now you must be victorious – winning is all that matters. Simply stated, If you lose, you die!

16. What you will need...
The armourer will supply you with all the equipment that you will need in the arena.
The combination of weapons, armour and shields will vary, depending on the type of gladiator you become.
RH Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
What would you choose, and why?
You will be appointed an attendant to see to your needs. He will bring you food, run errands, and carry your equipment into the arena for you.

17. TASK: Significant Events and People Capture Journey to Rome
Write a letter home to your family explaining your journey so far. Be sure to use academic language from your notes
Tell your family what has happened to you since you left home.
Use a strong voice throughout your letter
Significant Events and People
Capture
Journey to Rome
Sold at the auction
Training
The Staff
The Gladiators
Your unknown future
Are you:
A funny Gaul? Serious Gaul? Pessimistic Gaul? Optimistic Gaul? Scheming Gaul?...)
RH Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
WHST Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
WHST Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
WHST Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.

18. The heading, closing, and signature are aligned
Notice
The heading, closing, and signature are aligned
Four mandatory commas : #1 city,state #2 day, year
#3 after greeting #4 after closing

19. 5 4 3 2 1
Student elaborates on all of the seven events and people from the prompt using proper use of academic language
Student includes all of the seven events and people from the prompt
Student includes at least five of the seven events and people from the prompt
Student includes at least four of the seven events and people from the prompt
Student includes at least three of the seven events and people from the prompt
Student includes all five parts of a letters correctly including alignment and conventions of print
Student includes all five parts of the letter with a few minor errors in alignment and conventions of print
Student includes all five parts of the letter with several errors in alignment and conventions of pring
Student includes at least four parts of the letter. There are errors, but effort is apparent
Student is missing two or more parts of the letter with many errors in alignment and conventions of pring
Student’s voice and point of view are strong and consistent with the prompt throughout the letter
Student’s voice and point of view are consistent with the prompt
Student’s voice and/or point of view are not consistent
Student’s voice and/or point of view are confusing at times
Student’s voice and/or point of view are very confusing and hard to follow

20. Gaul to Gladiator Part #2
Final draft of your letter is due tomorrow at the beginning of social studies
Look at me, my little tulip blossom, I am now a buff Samnite. Just three years and I will return to thee victorious and a hero. Down with the Rotten Romans! Long live the Gauls!
Your little sweet pea,
Everin

21. Prepare to fight!
The games are about to begin. Your moment of glory is upon you – you hope. But first, you must entertain the crowd.
Practice
First you'll fight with wooden swords in a practice duel.
Gambling
Spectators will gamble on whether you will win your fight …or not.
Opponent
You will be drawn to fight against another gladiator

22. Prepare to fight! Advice from the bench Real Weapon
Your trainer will encourage you, shouting words of advice — and threats. His reputation
Real Weapon
You will be given your real weapon – no more wooden swords from now on.

23. Prepare to fight!
Music
Musicians will play war-trumpets, pipes and flutes.
Action!
The contest begins – it's a fight to the death.
Noisy Crowd
The crowd will cheer and shout all the time you are fighting.

24. Prodded into action...
You are about to fight for your life, but it is not just your opponent you have to worry about.
Your trainer will be watching every move and, if he thinks you are not trying hard enough, he has a painful way of prodding you back into action.
Try to stay alive until midday. Then you'll have a chance for a rest when you'll be able to watch pairs of criminals fight to the death.

25. Bad Luck!
Bad luck! In your contest you were drawn to fight a retarius, a gladiator who catches opponents in his net before moving in for the final kill.
As you lie on the sandy floor of the arena, he brings his dagger to your throat. You must think fast – you may have only seconds to live. There’s only one thing you can do: appeal to the emperor.
Will you live or die?

26. Will you live or die?
The crowd are on their feet, shouting "Habet, hoc habet!", which means "Got him! Let him have it!". There's only one thing you can do.
As you raise your left hand to appeal to the emperor he will turn to the crowd and let them decide your fate. All you can hope for is that they call out "Mitte!"– "Let him go!".

27. Appeal to the Emperor... Thumbs Up
If the crowd hold their thumbs up and wave their handkerchiefs, the fallen gladiator will be allowed to live.
Thumbs Down
If the crowd turn their thumbs to the ground, as if swiping a sword through the air, then the defeated man must die.
Draw
If both gladiators are still on their feet and have fought their best, then a draw may be declared and neither man will die.

28. Its all over...
It seems the crowd showed you no mercy and the retarius was the winner of the contest. While your body is dragged from the arena, the victorious gladiator is presented with his prizes.

29. The games end... Finished off
Dying gladiators are killed by a man dressed as the mythical character Charon.
Dragged away
Men drag away the bodies of the dead and dump them in a pit.
Cleaners
Boys rake the sand over to remove all signs of blood.

30. So...
Would you want to be a gladiator?

31. Thracian Wide-brimmed crested helmet with visor
Protection on both legs
Greaves - arm protection needed because the smallness of the shield
Parmula -small rectangular shield
Sica - short, curved sword designed to main his opponent’s unarmored back

32. Secutor
Egg-shaped helmet with round eye-holes to protect eyes from tridents
Small, black helmet was rounded to help him escape metal nets
Ocrea –Metal guard on one leg
Manica – Metal wrapping on the right arm
Legionary-style shield and sword
The secutor was called a “chaser”
Frequently paired with the retiarius who represented water
Secutor represented fire – “fire chases water”

33. Retiarius Net-and-trident fighter
Galerus - metal shoulder and arm guard
Large metal net
Small dagger on metal belt
Rete – three-pointed trident
The only type of gladiator whose head and face were uncovered
Wore no defensive armor, the retiarius was more mobile and very quick
More vulnerable to serious wounds
Represents Poseidon, god of water

34. Hoplomachi or Samnite
Galea - visored helmet had a large griffin crest and plume
Gladius 27 inch short straight sword after which the gladiator was named
Gladius was designed to thrust and parry rather than to cut and slice.
Fully armored, and based on Greek hoplites
Woolen quilted leg wrappings, and shin-guards.
Carried a spear in the Hoplite style with a small round shield

35. Laquerius Carried a lasso to capture his opponent
Could carry a trident, a
Poignard (dagger), Gladius
(Roman short sword), or all
three of the above
Armguard worn over the left
shoulder
Later in history the lasso was
replaced by a Pila et Vinculum,
a long chain with a heavy
spiked ball on the end

36. Essedarius Rode in a chariot, sometimes they had a driver
Could carry a sword
Medallion – six foot long spear with an iron point
Did have armour based on Celtic design
Tactics included running over their opponent or
stabbing them with their medallion
If the wheels came off their chariot, they would
free their horses from the chariot and fight
from the back of their favorite steed