Help please - homework "write a short roman play" DS in Y3 bamboozled & me!

[eemum]

Just realised (oops) that part of this weeks homework for my 8yr old is to "have a go at writing a Roman play, it doesn't have to be long". Have asked DS if they have done / talked about Roman plays in class & he says no and hasn't a clue where to start. He hates writing with a passion so any written homework is a chore.

Won't get chance to see teacher & ask before this is due in, so hoping one of you lovely people may have done similar & be able to give me a few tips.......thanks in advance!

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

Probably the easiest thing to do would be to write a dialogue between two characters - maybe a slave and a master or two gladiators about to go into the arena or a Roman soldier and an officer, for instance.
Just get him to research one of those topics and then write a little scene including some of the facts he has found out.
Here are some websites that might help
roman history for kids
Some stuff about gladiators and circuses
[[http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/reticulum/NORTHERNFRONTIER/WallZone/WallZone.htm Hadrian's Wall site for childen with lots of stuff on the Roman Army

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

Sorry, last link should be Hadrian's Wall

[Litchick]

I agree - just think of it as a short conversation between two people.
How about Pompei? Or the burning of Rome?

[eemum]

Fab, thanks for your help. A short conversation seems straightforward - think I had been over complicating!!

[Marina]

You could get some great ideas for a Roman/Briton conversation from the Reticulum Project website that Lady Glencora has linked to
"It's cold here"
"What do you expect if you wear sandals and a miniskirt"

[FabioTheLiterateCat]

Write a play about a Roman with height issues.

[FabioTheLiterateCat]

Call him Minimus.

[FabioTheLiterateCat]

Does it have to be in Latin?

[FabioTheLiterateCat]

I'm wasted on you people.

"write a short roman play"

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

PMSL Fabio. But Minimus is a mouse as any fule kno.

[cocoapops]

LOL at the cat.

[FabioTheLiterateCat]

gratias ago vos

[Marina]

That's vobis, puddytat

[FabioTheLiterateCat]

rectum iri

[controlfreakyagain]

ecce! mirabile dictu, felix dixit!

[cory]

Ooo errr this is getting a bit advanced. IME Roman plays involve brothels and young family girls up the duff or else people eating their children on stage, having mistaken them for the stew. I wouldn't go there

[Marina]

PMSL at eating children on stage cory, a perfect antidote to the nativity play season