This blog is my own personal time travel into the past...

Wednesday 29 May 2013

The Romans

HISTORY CLUB
The Romans!!
Viviana started the history club reunion by talking about her early life in Germany, Galicia and Ibiza. She showed us maps and photos of her as a girl. She showed us a TV she had made from a shoebox that was similar to the TV she had as a kid. It was black and white and had a hunchback.
Then we started talking about the ancient Romans because that's where we are in The Story of the World.
One family talked about Sparticus, another about Cleopatra and Julius Caesar and I talked about Roman roads, how they were built, and how they used the instrument called a groma to make their roads so straight.
Here we're lining the road using the kids because we didn't have any sticks.
Above photo: checking it's straight by using the lines and string on the groma.
Then we all had a go at making a road with sand, gravel, cement and flagstones.
This is the finished result.
Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
Caesar sees the head of his friend Pompeii in a basket.
In the end I put on the toga too. I'm serious because I'm Brutus who ended up killing his friend Caesar.

Tuesday 7 May 2013

 
 
THE UNTOUCHABLES OF INDIA
For our last History Club reunion, I gave a presentation on the Untouchables of India. I talked about the caste system which even continues in India today.
The Untouchables were people who did the worst jobs and they were called "untouchable" because people didn't want to touch or even look at them.
They were not allowed in temples or main towns or even to drink from the same well as other people.
 In my presentation, I am an Untouchable boy who works all day picking up rubbish. My father works in the sewers and my mother looks after my dying baby sister.
Unfortunately, these people are still treated badly even though it was forbidden in 1947.
Here are a few photos of some of the other presentations on ancient India and China.