NH158: This unit promotes critical thinking skills by cultivating students’ creative, aesthetic, critical, and art historical sensibilities while situating art in a broader context of social, cultural, and political meaning. Lessons include Trajan: The Man and His Empire; The People of Trajan’s Rome; Building Trajan’s City; Governing Trajan’s City and Empire; Provisioning Imperial Rome; Entertainment in Imperial Rome.

Grades 6-9

Lessons

Lesson One: Trajan: The Man and His Empire

Lesson Two: The People of Trajan Rome

Lesson Three: Building Trajan’s City

Lesson Four: Governing Trajan’s City and Empire

Lesson Five: Provisioning Imperial Rome

Lesson Six: Entertainment in Imperial Rome