Michelle Martinez, Walnut Hills High School
This project aims to bring the topography and city of Rome alive to students in a Latin classroom. This project was done primarily with students aged 12-13 over a one month period of time. The primary goal is to help students envision and interact with the material aspects of the ancient world. We spend a lot of time reading Latin when in a class focused on language acquisition, but the ACL and ACTFL Joint Standards on Latin include cultural competency as well. In language classrooms we often speak about the three Ps: products, practices, and perspectives and how these interact to give a student an idea of ‘culture’ as a whole. This project seeks to put students in the driver’s seat: researching a building or an object, planning how to recreate said object, and then executing this