HISTORY CLUB NUMBER 10.

I did a project about Britain and the Roman invasion around 60AD.

 It included Queen Boudicca and her Celtic warriors.

For the presentation, I drew up some pictures of Celtic warriors....

I drew a Roman legion using their shields as protection.

I used this guy as Julius Caesar and Claudius.

This is Queen Boudicca.

General Suetonius

This is Britain. The houses represent Celtic tribes.

The Iceni lived in present day Norfolk.

I talked about the Celtic uprising and the Battle of Watling Street.

 

One of the boys and the others cooked unleavened bread of the early Christians. 

It looked very yum.

Juan also had made an aqueduct and an arena on Minecraft which he hooked up to the TV.

Some sisters did the Battle of Alesia in Gaul out of Lego.

The Romans

HISTORY CLUB

The Romans!!

Viviana started the history club reunion by talking about her early life in Germany, Galicia and Ibiza. She showed us maps and photos of her as a girl. She showed us a TV she had made from a shoebox that was similar to the TV she had as a kid. It was black and white and had a hunchback.

Then we started talking about the ancient Romans because that's where we are in The Story of the World.

One family talked about Sparticus, another about Cleopatra and Julius Caesar and I talked about Roman roads, how they were built, and how they used the instrument called a groma to make their roads so straight.

Here we're lining the road using the kids because we didn't have any sticks.

Above photo: checking it's straight by using the lines and string on the groma.

Then we all had a go at making a road with sand, gravel, cement and flagstones.

This is the finished result.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.

Caesar sees the head of his friend Pompeii in a basket.

In the end I put on the toga too. I'm serious because I'm Brutus who ended up killing his friend Caesar.

 

 

THE UNTOUCHABLES OF INDIA

For our last History Club reunion, I gave a presentation on the Untouchables of India. I talked about the caste system which even continues in India today.

The Untouchables were people who did the worst jobs and they were called "untouchable" because people didn't want to touch or even look at them.

They were not allowed in temples or main towns or even to drink from the same well as other people.

 In my presentation, I am an Untouchable boy who works all day picking up rubbish. My father works in the sewers and my mother looks after my dying baby sister.

Unfortunately, these people are still treated badly even though it was forbidden in 1947.

Here are a few photos of some of the other presentations on ancient India and China.

 

MESOAMERICA PRESENTATION.

  

I made some masks of Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl for the history club presentation because we are talking about Ancient America.

Here I made a timeline of some of the most important civilizations in Mesoamerica and I put the Inca in because it was a very important civilization even though it was down in South America.

Here I made a map of Central America. It was like a jigsaw that the other kids in the club had to put together in the right places.

 The red is the Aztec civilization, the green is the Olmecs and the yellow is the Maya.

Here I am doing the presentation. First I wore the Quetzalcoatl mask then I talked about the timeline.

I talked about the first Americans and how they made their way down into all parts of the Americas.

Then we all put the map together and I showed them where the different cultures lived.

Then I talked about the religion many of the cultures shared such as the importance of the Jaguar, and the gods Quetzalcoatl and Tlaloc.

And finally there was a child sacrifice for the god Tlaloc and everyone volunteered to be sacrificed. The heart was a balloon in a red glove.

Even I, the shaman, ended up being sacrificed!!