Subject/Date/Time

AP World 11/19 (Time - 1:01)

AP World
HistoryUnit 4 : The Roman
Republic Date: 11/19/15
Lesson:
The Twelve Tables of Rome
Objectives:

Students will be able to evaluate whether a law is fair or

not.
Students will be able to explain the importance of laws.

Essential Question:

What is the importance of a fair law?

Materials:

Activities:
(Student Actions/
Teacher Actions)

Twelve Tables Reading

Cornell Notes
Warm Up: The Twelve Tables of Law Reading (8
Minutes)
1. Students will read the Twelve Tables of Rome while
the teacher takes attendance, makes sure students are
on task, and answers any questions students might
have (6 Minutes). 2. Teacher prompts and facilitates
student discussion. Students comment and share their
reactions to the text (2 Minutes).
Patricians vs Plebeians Discussion (10 Minutes)
Students will take Cornell notes and participate in
discussion while the teacher leads the discussion and
prompts chunking for the Cornell notes.
Twelve Tables of Law Reading - Second Helping (21
Minutes)
Students will reread the Twelve Tables of Law looking at it
through the lens of being a Plebian in Rome and keeping
the issue of citizen rights in mind.
1. Students will circle laws that they believe would
have been the most beneficial for Plebeians to acquire
and write them down in their Cornell notes with (8
Minutes). 2. Students will share the laws that they
chose and their reasoning for doing so with a partner.
Partners will then consolidate their lists to only 2 laws
that they find most important and write them in in
their Cornell Notes (4 Minutes). 3. Partners will work
with the other groups at their table to decide what one
law was the most beneficial law for Plebeians and write
it down with the explanation in their Cornell notes. (4
Minutes). Each group will then have one person
explain to the class why they chose the law that they
did (5 Minutes).
Teacher guides the lesson, keeps students on task,
answers questions, and moves around from group to
group doing check ins.
Twelve Tables - Lawmaking Group Activity (22
Minutes)
1. Students will pretend that they are lawmakers and
work in table groups to come up with their own 12
laws that they believe would be fair for all students at
PCA to follow. Each student at the table is responsible
for coming up with at least two laws. Students should
write their name by the laws that they created (10
Minutes). 2. Each group will read their laws and the