Tic-Tac-Toe Choiceboard
Directions: In order to complete this assignment students must select three options in the grid below,
one of which must be the center option. Just like the game, students will select the three option in
either a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal pattern. Any digital assignments completed must have working
hyperlinks in the option box provided.
Create a Padlet Timeline
Go to www.padlet.com, create a free account
with your student email, and select the timeline
template to begin. Create an interactive
multimedia timeline about the growth and split of
Christianity during the late Roman Empire
(117CE-476CE) and the early Byzantine Empire
(476CE-1100CE). The timeline must have a
combination of images obtained with appropriate
copyright usage and citation, video clips, and
written short texts on each point of the timeline.
URL:
Create a Unit Study Video
Using www.canva.com, create a 10-15 minute
study video on the digital unit. Can be done alone
or in a pair. A strong video must have visuals to
illustrate the content you cover, and you must be
visible and audible during the video. Topics to be
covered include:
• the geographic spread of the Roman
Empire,
• the political, economic, social, religious,
and militaristic issues plaguing the
empire,
• the survival of the Byzantine Empire
• the split of the Christian Church in 1054
(Great Schism)
Publish and make the video public on Youtube or
Vimeo and post URL below. Student name(s)
must be in the title.
URL:
Draw a Political Cartoon
With whatever art supplies you have at home,
take a piece of paper and draw a political
cartoon about one of the following topics:
• Private militaries/military
mismanagement
• The Severans and the Soldier Emperors
• Constantine’s Conversion and
Constantinople
• The Great Schism
Must have text and commentary in the cartoon
(the author’s purpose for drawing the cartoon).
Submit as a google doc that is editable by
anyone with the link.
URL:
Create an Animaker Animation
Go to www.animaker.com, create a free account
with your student email, and select a template
to begin. Pick a person to roleplay as and create
a character to match this historical person, albeit
in more modern clothing; narrate the decline or
fall of the Roman Empire from their perspective
using notes, primary sources, readings from this
digital unit, and any additional individual
research.
URL:
Write a Digital Set of Unit Flas
Go to www.quizlet.com, create a
with your student email, and crea
flashcard set. Create flashcards fo
this google doc. Flashcards must i
• Term
• Dates of importance, i
• What/Who is this?
• Where is this?
• Why is this significant?
URL:
Digitally Poll Your Family and
Go to www.padlet.com, create a f
with your student email, and selec
template to begin. Using causes o
the Roman Empire and the lasting
contributions of the Roman civiliz
your family and friends about whi
and one contribution were the mo
and why. For each category you cr
image, video clip, or GIF to help th
the poll understand what the cate
Submit a viewable URL below.
URL:
Create a Venn Diagram
Using notes, primary sources, readings from this
digital unit, and any additional individual
research, choose two of the four emperors below
to compare and contrast:
• the lengths of their rules,
• their paths to power,
• the ability to rule as emperor,
• the legacies of their periods of rule
• circumstances surrounding their deaths
Caracella, Diocletian, Constantine the Great,
Justinian I
Can be done digitally or on paper. Submit as a
google doc that is editable by anyone with the
link.
URL:
Student Crafted Assignment w/Teacher
Approval
Students can design their own assignment but
must meet basic criteria below and be emailed
to the teacher before the choiceboard’s due
date.
Criteria:
• use prior notes, readings, primary
sources to perform analysis, evaluation,
synthesis, or creation
• be submitted online through web-
platform like google doc, Youtube,
Vimeo, Canva, Padlet, etc.
• address appropriate content topics
covered in the unit, vocab sheet, or
other portions of the choiceboard.
URL:
Write a Travel Log
Imagine you are a Roman bureauc
historian, like Jordanes, and are tr
about the Roman Empire around 3
notes, primary sources, readings f
digital unit, and any additional ind
research, write a two-page travel
diary about your journey. Topics c
local climates, local people, obser
about culture, food, language, reli
social classes. This travel log shou
your experiences in the empire. Su
google doc that is editable by any
link.
URL: