populus romanus phase 3 instructions & grading

8/6/2019 POPULUS ROMANUS Phase 3 Instructions & Grading

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POPULUS ROMANUS PROJECT

Phase 3: Your Figure Comes to Life

Remember once again the prime directive of the project: Keep your identity secret,

and base all work on the knowledge you have gained from historical research.

Overview: For the next phase of the project, your persona will begin to live online. Yourfigure will be alive for ten days on the web, so to the extent possible, pace developments with

this schedule in mind. However, you will have to be flexible in the ways you think about the

passage of time: you likely will have to exist during different parts of your life at the same time!

The project will conclude on May 18.

Below are listed various actions that are required in Phase 3.

Actions Possible purposes Citations TechConsiderations? MinimumNumber of Posts

Posting

announcements

To announce

developments; to

share revelations;to express

opinions

None needed. Provide title in

Subject and

announcementin Body.

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Posting on other

figures walls

To make friend

requests; to act

out historicalevents and

relationships; tocomment oncurrent events;

to praise; to

criticize

Underneath your

post, indicate the

location of theinformation that

has led you tomake yourcomment.

Follow the

guidelines

provided in thisdocument.

Place all or most

of post in

Subject; placecitations in

Body.Do not write onyour own wall.

Do not delete

any posts on

your wall.

15 on at least

three different

pages; 5 postsmust derive from

ancient sources.

Posting on the

Forum

To discuss issues

pertaining to

Roman

civilization

Same as

above.Reply to posts

created by site

administrator.

2 substantive,

well-considered

posts that

indicate earlierposts have been

read.


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FRIEND REQUESTS

For the purposes of this project, a friend is defined as a friend, relative, or an associate withwhom one might share common interests. Most friends will be contemporaries (people alive

at the same time), but it is conceivable that friends might come from different eras but share an

affection for the same ideas or interests. In the course of Phases 3, you will create a picturelibrary of these friends. Heres how:

1) First, identify friends. You have already done this in Phase 1; however, you did notknow during Phase 1 who would be participating in the project. Now, you do. Peruse the

websites of the figures participating in the project and identifybased on historical

evidence-- those who might be friends with your figure. (See Figures List)2) Contact the figure by posting a message on his or her wall.Begin the message with the

phrase Friend Request followed by a colon. Explain why the figure shares common

interests with you. Provide a citation that justifies the request.

3) If the figure accepts your friend request, you may add them to your friend library. Youll

do this in the same way you added pictures to your personal pictures library. You mustsave the picture to your hard drive before uploading it to your friend library. You do not

need to provide URLs for pictures in your friend library.

What to do if you receive a friend request:

1) Evaluate the request by considering the validity of the explanation provided. Check thecited source and determine whether or not the information is consistent with or in conflict

with your own information. Decide whether or not the figure in question really might

have been a friend, relative, or ally of your figure or have shared a common interest withhim or her.

2) Once you have made your decision, communicate the answer to the figure by posting on

his or her wall. Provide a citation to justify your response.3) If you accept the friend request, follow the step mentioned above for adding his or her

picture to your friend library.


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CITATIONS

Complete bibliographical information for sources that have been important to you in developingknowledge about your figure should be listed in your Works Cited web part on your home page.

You can add to your annotated list of references throughout Phase 3. When you post on others

Walls or the Forum, you should provide short citations to direct your classmates and yourteacher to a specific source in your annotated list that inspired or justifies the post.* Place these

citations beneath your posts. Please use the following guidelines:

For works by Plutarch and Suetonius that provide chapter numbers, identify the author

and indicate the Life and the chapter number to help others find the relevantinformation: Plutarch,Life of Marius: 27. If accessed online, add the URL.

For print sources, provide the first meaningful phrase of the relevant Works Cited entryfound on your annotated bibliography page: Octavia or Morris and the page number.

For websites, post the URL: http://classics.mit.edu/Augustus/deeds.html

*There is one exception to this policy. If you are replying to a post and your reply is based offthe same source used by the original poster, you may simply write Ibid as your citation. Youdo not need to add the source to your Works Cited unless you think it a useful source of

information on your topic.

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

There are two important documents which you will need to have completed and emailed to me

by class time on May 19. One is POPULUS ROMANUS Post-Tracker, which is available fordownloading from my POPULUS ROMANUS page. You will use this document to keep a

record of all of the posts you make onpages besides your own (wall or Forum posts). The

second, POPULUS ROMANUS Survey, will be made available on my POPULUSROMANUS page for a workday designed for that purpose on May 18. Send me ONE email with

these two documents as attachments before you come to class on May 19.
http://classics.mit.edu/Augustus/deeds.htmlhttp://classics.mit.edu/Augustus/deeds.html


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GRADING Student Name/Hr: ________________

Name of Figure: _________________Points will be distributed as follows:

10 pts. Welcome

10 pts. Timeline

10 pts. Picture(s)

20 pts. Annotated Bibliography

15 pts. Wall Posts

5 pts. Friend Library

10 pts. Forum Posts

10 pts. A Day in the Life

10 pts. POPULUS ROMANUSsurvey

__________ / 100

Extra Credit for optional activities: __________Total: ___________

Factors into the grading of most categories include historicity, spiritedness, and polish.

HistoricityDoes your work on POPULUS ROMANUS reflect and promote a strong

understanding of your figure and related subjects? Did you aggressively seek out and make useofboth primary and secondary sources? Did you cite your sources? Did you include details

which demonstrate your understanding of the daily life of the people of Rome?

Spiritedness Did you bring your figure to life? Did you creatively present your figure

in a way that illustrated his or her character, personality, or interests? Were you an active, vitalparticipant in POPULUS ROMANUS?

PolishIs your work free of spelling or grammatical errors? Did you follow the projectstechnical instructions carefully?

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