Rome: From Republic to Empire: Social Studies Unit 7, Grade 6 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Rome: From Republic to Empire is Unit 7 of The Ancient World: Peoples, Power, and Place (Grade 6), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 11 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 69 pages.

• Roman geography and its relationship to expansion and trade
• The founding legend versus archaeological evidence for early Rome
• Roman social groups and their political rights under the Republic
• The consul-Senate-veto system of checks in the Roman Republic
• The political causes of the Senate’s failure to stop Caesar
• The effect of expanding Roman citizenship on the stability of the republic/empire
• A primary source excerpt describing daily life under Pax Romana
• Roman engineering achievements and their role in governing a large empire
• Roman adoption and adaptation of Greek gods and myths
• Multiple causes of the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire
• Key Roman government vocabulary (republic, citizen, patrician, plebeian, consul)

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.