Roman Education

Lesson 2

• To be able to understand Roman Education

• To be able to understand Roman Numerals and Alphabet.

•To be able to solve Roman Numeral questions!

Roman Schools

• Most Roman kids did not go to school.

• Like their parents, they worked in the fields hoeing and weeding and ploughing as soon as they were old enough.

• Their parents needed them to work, to get enough to eat.

• They did not learn to read or write or do math.

Roman Schools

• If you didn’t pay the fees on time, (EACH MORNING), you would be told,

• “Sorry but you haven’t paid your fees. You must go!”

• Yes this was harsh but it had to be done.

Activity 1

1. Write down everything you know about Roman Schools.

2. Do the questions on Page 6. Page 5 is very helpful!

3. EXTENSION: • You are a Roman Scholar, write a

day’s account.

Who went to school? • Some rich boys, especially if

they lived in cities, did go to school. Girls mostly did not go to school.

• Roman schools were small, with only one room, and one teacher, like American one-room schools.

• The same teacher taught boys of different ages, from about seven to eleven or twelve. (Boys younger than seven didn't go to school).

• The boys' parents paid the teacher, the way your parents pay for music lessons or karate lessons today.

• Rich kids sometimes had a slave who walked them to school and back and kept them safe.

A Roman teacher home-schooling, about 200 AD

Picture of a Roman School

Activity 2

1. Look at the Picture opposite, and write down 5 things that are different to Modern Day Schools.

2. EXTENSION:-Draw a plan of a Roman School.

Facts

• There were about twelve pupils. • The Romans did have a kind of paper

made from reeds, and wrote on animal skins, but this was too expensive for children to write on. Schoolboys would write on wax tablets with a pointed stick called a stylus. They then rubbed the wax smooth and started again.

• A school would only have a few books. Books had to be written by hand.

• They were usually made from one long piece of paper rolled around a stick. This was called a scroll.

• Children at Roman Schools often used Roman Numerals as Maths.

• They spoke Latin and they wrote in the Latin Alphabet.

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Roman NumeralsRoman Numerals

Roman Numerals Introduction

• The Romans used only 7 letters to represent all numbers . . .

• These were… I V X L C D M• I = 1   V = 5    X = 10    L = 50    C = 100    • D = 500    M = 1000

Roman Numeral Questions

1. I + X =2. M + C =3. C x V =4. C – L =5. L x X =6. M – DC =

• REMEMBER:- • I = 1   • V = 5    • X = 10    • L = 50    • C = 100    • D = 500    • M = 1000

Good Luck!

Answers To Roman NumeralQuestions

1. I + X = XI2. M + C = MC3. C x V = D4. C – L = L5. L x X = D6. M – DC = CD

• REMEMBER:- • I = 1   • V = 5    • X = 10    • L = 50    • C = 100    • D = 500    • M = 1000

More About Roman Numerals

• Letters are placed before or after each other to lower or increase their value.

EXAMPLES:• IX = 9• MXI = 1011• MCMLXXXVIII = 1988• IIMM = 1998

Activity 4

• Your Turn1. Make your own Roman Numeral

Questions.2. BUT REMEMBER TO MAKE

ANSWERS. (Make an answer sheet)

Roman Alphabet

About The Alphabet

• Our alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet. The Romans spoke Latin. These are the letters of the Roman alphabet  . . .

• The letters K, Y and Z weren't used very often. The letter J was the same as I, and U the same as V.

Activity 51. Draw out the

Alphabet in your jotter.

2. Make your own words.

Have fun!!

Next lesson:

SLAVERY IN ROMAN TIMES