POPULUS
ROMANUS PROJECT
Phase
3: Your Figure Comes to Life
Remember
once again the prime directive of the project: Keep your identity secret, and
base all work on the knowledge you have gained from historical research.
Overview: For the next
phase of the project, your persona will begin to “live” online. Your figure will be “alive” for ten days on
the web, so to the extent possible, pace developments with this schedule in
mind. However, you will have to be
flexible in the ways you think about the passage of time: you likely will have
to exist during different parts of your life at the same time!
The project will conclude on May 18.
Below
are listed various actions that are required in Phase 3.
FRIEND REQUESTS
For
the purposes of this project, a “friend” is defined as a friend, relative, or
an associate with whom one might share common interests. Most “friends” will be contemporaries (people
alive at the same time), but it is conceivable that “friends” might come from
different eras but share an affection for the same ideas or interests. In the course of Phases 3, you will create a
picture library of these friends. Here’s
how:
- First, identify “friends.” You have already done this in Phase 1; however, you did not know during Phase 1 who would be participating in the project. Now, you do. Peruse the websites of the figures participating in the project and identify—based on historical evidence-- those who might be “friends” with your figure. (See Figures List)
- Contact the figure by posting a comment on his or her Friend Library page. Begin the message with the phrase “Friend Request” followed by a colon. Explain why the figure shares common interests with you. Provide a citation that justifies the request.
- If the figure accepts your friend request, you may add them. You’ll do this by finding an image to represent the new friend and adding it to the Friend Library page. You must save the picture to your hard drive before uploading it to your friend library. You do need to provide URLs for pictures in your friend library, as well as the date you accessed the image.
What
to do if you receive a friend
request:
- Evaluate the request by considering the validity of the explanation provided. Check the cited source and determine whether or not the information is consistent with or in conflict with your own information. Decide whether or not the figure in question really might have been a friend, relative, or ally of your figure or have shared a common interest with him or her.
- Once you have made your decision, communicate the answer to the figure by replying to their comment on YOUR Friend Library page. Provide a citation to justify your response.
- If you accept the friend request, follow the step mentioned above for adding his or her picture to your friend library.
CITATIONS
Complete
bibliographical information for sources that have been important to you in
developing knowledge about your figure should be listed in your Works Cited web
part on your home page. You can add to your annotated list of references
throughout Phase 3. When you post on
others’ Walls or the Forum, you should
provide short citations to direct your classmates and your teacher to a
specific source in your annotated list that inspired or justifies the post.*
Place these citations beneath your posts.
Please use the following guidelines:
- For works by Plutarch and Suetonius that
provide “chapter numbers,” identify the author and indicate the “Life” and
the “chapter number” to help others find the relevant information:
Plutarch, Life of Marius: 27. If
accessed online, add the URL.
- For print sources, provide the first meaningful
phrase of the relevant Works Cited entry found on your annotated
bibliography page: “Octavia” or Morris and the page number.
- For websites, post the URL: http://classics.mit.edu/Augustus/deeds.html
*There
is one exception to this policy. If you
are replying to a post and your reply is based off the same source used by the
original poster, you may simply write “Ibid” as your citation. You do not need
to add the source to your Works Cited unless you think it a useful source of
information on your topic.
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
There
are two important documents which
you will need to have completed and
emailed to me by class time on May 19.
One is “POPULUS ROMANUS Post-Tracker,” which is available for downloading
from my POPULUS ROMANUS page. You will
use this document to keep a record of all of the posts you make on pages besides your own (wall or Forum
posts). The second, “POPULUS ROMANUS Survey,” will be made available on my POPULUS
ROMANUS page for a workday designed for that purpose on May 18. Send me ONE
email with these two documents as attachments before you come to class on May
19.
GRADING
Student Name/Hr: ________________
Student Name/Hr: ________________
Name
of Figure: _________________
Points will be
distributed as follows:
10
pts. Welcome Voki
|
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10
pts. Character Timeline
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10
pts. Picture(s) w/Citations
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20
pts. Annotated Bibliography
|
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15
pts. Comments
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5
pts. Friend Library
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10
pts. Forum Posts
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10
pts. A Day in the Life
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10
pts. POPULUS ROMANUS survey
|
__________ / 100
Extra Credit for
optional activities: __________
Total: ___________
Factors
into the grading of most categories include historicity, spiritedness, and
polish.
Historicity—Does
your work on POPULUS ROMANUS reflect and promote a strong understanding of your
figure and related subjects? Did you
aggressively seek out and make use of
both primary and secondary sources? Did you cite your sources? Did you include
details which demonstrate your understanding of the daily life of the people of
Rome
Spiritedness
– Did you bring your figure to life? Did you creatively present your figure in
a way that illustrated his or her character, personality, or interests? Were
you an active, vital participant in POPULUS ROMANUS?
Polish—Is
your work free of spelling or grammatical errors? Did you follow the project’s
technical instructions carefully?
