Latin II: Religion of the Ancient World Project
Mystery Cults
-Imperial cults
-Early Christianity (During the Roman Era),
-Manichaeism
-Cult of Dionysus/Bacchus
-Mysteries at Eleusis
-Mysteries of Mithras
-Mysteries of Isis
Magic in the Roman or Ancient World
-Public and Private Rituals (Including festivals)
-High and Low Magic
-Divination
-Oracles
-Astrology
-Zoroaster
The Underworld
-The Greco-Roman Underworld
-The Egyptian Underworld
-Death and Burial Rituals in both Roman and Greek Society
-Vision of the Afterlife.
The goal of this project is to explore the role and functions of religious institutions in the Ancient
World. Your group will explore the topic assigned. I have provided sub-topics to help your research.
Some of the topics will overlap other groups.
You may create a movie or television scripts to act out; make online or physical scrap books of a
Roman, who experiences your topic; write or illustrate a story that highlights these topics. Be
creative! Show off what you’ve learned to the class!
Your group must create a visual aid and prepare an informative class presentation. Individually, you
must write a 2-3 page paper reflecting your research and how your topic still affects us today. It
should also include your personal thoughts on the subject.
Your paper will be graded separately from your group work. 50% will be dedicated to the group and
50% toward your individual paper.
This project will be due by Oct. 10 (A Day) Oct. 13 (B Day)
Groups:
Each of your group members should have a role or be in charge of a particular portion of the project.
It’s very apparent when someone is not contributing his or her fair share.
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Student Name:
________________________________________
CATEGORY
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Content
Shows a full
understanding of the
topic.
Shows a good
understanding of the
topic.
Shows a good
understanding of
parts of the topic.
Does not
seem to
understand
the topic
very well.
Preparedness
Students are
completely prepared
and have obviously
rehearsed.
Students seem pretty
prepared but might
have needed a couple
more rehearsals.
The students are
somewhat prepared,
but it is clear that
rehearsal was lacking.
Students do
not seem at
all
prepared to
present.
Topic
Every subtopic was
utilized and was
related back to the
group\'s theme.
Subtopics were
presented but had no
connection to the
theme of the group.
Very little was
mentioned in the
group.
No
information
was
conveyed.
Teacher Name: Mr. Lucido
Student Name:
________________________________________
CATEGORY
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Quality of
Information
Information clearly
relates to the main
topic. It includes
several supporting
details and/or
examples.
Information clearly
relates to the main
topic. It provides 12 supporting
details and/or
examples.
Information clearly
relates to the main
topic. No details
and/or examples
are given.
Information has
little or nothing to
do with the main
topic.
Sources
All sources
(information and
graphics) are
accurately
documented in the
desired format.
All sources
(information and
graphics) are
accurately
documented, but a
few are not in the
desired format.
All sources
Some sources are
(information and
not accurately
graphics) are
documented.
accurately
documented, but
many are not in the
desired format.
Mechanics
No grammatical,
Almost no
A few grammatical Many grammatical,
spelling or
grammatical,
spelling, or
spelling, or
punctuation errors. spelling or
punctuation errors. punctuation errors.
punctuation errors
Organization
Information is very
organized with
well-constructed
paragraphs and
subheadings.
Information is
organized with
well-constructed
paragraphs.
Information is
The information
organized, but
appears to be
paragraphs are not disorganized. 8)
well-constructed.
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