Category: Modern Echoes of the Ancient World

#RomanMarket Part Two

Here are the rest of my attempts to live-tweet my 6th grade student’s Roman Market this year.

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76331172485005313

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76334709830979585

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76342096981798912

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76343549272129536

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76344902832762880

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76346919269564416

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76348181318873088

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76350137852633088

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76350717195067392

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76353957794029568

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76354357649604609

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76366168176336897

http://twitter.com/#!/mamacheatham/status/76367383845023745

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76382069055434753

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76382244176003072

http://twitter.com/#!/mylatinteacher/status/76631235618807808

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76641947929939968

http://twitter.com/#!/mylatinteacher/status/76643163569258496

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76646418282057728

http://twitter.com/#!/mylatinteacher/status/76647301065617408

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76664458319110144

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76665159917109248

#RomanMarket

Yesterday was a big day for my sixth grade students; they put on a Roman Market for our school. I decided to live-tweet the event using the hashtag #RomanMarket.

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76280406470701056

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76281252205957120

http://twitter.com/#!/pjgoodman/status/76281748958347264

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76289265125957632

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76289773056180224

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76290598058987520

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76307475921518592

http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76310630189105152

You Are There: Old Time Radio

Over at Archive.org, you can find a large number of episodes of the old time radio series You Are There to stream or download. This unique series combined major historical events with then-modern journalistic techniques, as each week it imagined how a CBS News radio crew would document important moments in world history.

Some episodes of interest that are available on the site:

“The Last Days of Pompeii” (originally aired August 25, 1947, and rebroadcast on April 11, 1948)
“The Assassination Of Julius Caesar” (originally aired February 15, 1948, and rebroadcast on April 24, 1949)
“The Death of Socrates” (originally aired March 14, 1948)
“The Fall of Troy” (originally aired April 25, 1948, and rebroadcast on October 24, 1948)
“The Conspiracy of Catiline” (originally aired April 12, 1948)
“The Rise of Alexander the Great: Peace Offer” (originally aired March 6, 1949)
“The Rise of Alexander the Great: Battle for Asia” (originally aired March 13, 1949)
“The Rise of Alexander the Great: Mutiny in India” (originally aired March 20, 1949)
“Thermopylae” (originally aired April 16, 1950)