Celebrity for a Day
Please read the prompt below
and respond in your spiral notebook.
If you could be any celebrity for one day, who
would it be? Write a paragraph explaining
why you would want to be this person. Write
one to two additional paragraphs about what
you’d do if you got to be this person for a
day.
Schedule for Monday, November 2
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Celebrity for a Day writing warm-up
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Mission Statement
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Latin Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes
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Break, if earned
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History Alive
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire
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The Byzantine Empire (340-1453)
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Location
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Significance
The Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire
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Collapse of the Western Roman Empire
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Cause
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Eastern Roman Empire
The Byzantine Empire
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Political structure
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The Emperor
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“Caesaropapism”
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Political Organization
The Byzantine Empire
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Justinian (527-565) and Theodora
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Justinian
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Theodora
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Accomplishments
Justinian
Theodora
The Byzantine Empire
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External Pressures
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Expansion of Islam
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Persia
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Tensions with Western Europe
The Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire
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Religious Conflicts
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Rome vs. Constantinople
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Schism
The Byzantine Empire
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Social Structure
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Free peasants
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Urbanization
The Byzantine Empire
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Decline and Collapse (1025-1453)
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Pressures from the West
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Expansion of Islam
Fall of Constantinople
The Byzantine Empire
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Influence of Byzantine Empire
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Spread of Orthodox Christianity
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Russia