A young girl questions her restricted role while young boys seem to have much more freedom. Discipline and learning vary according to ones social status. Students have opportunities to prepare Roman foods and see that substitution of some products is necessary. Students read an epitaph about a Roman matron to see how valued she was by her husband and learn through reading some Roman laws what rights Roman women possessed. Students are asked to read some materials on the Internet in French and Italian to see the relationship these languages have to Latin and recognize that without studying a Romance language, one can generally understand what is written.
Students build English vocabulary through a study of Latin root words, prefixes and suffixes.
3.2 Students acquire information and recognize distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures. Students look at the wording in Latin to understand that it is not the words but the concept that is being transferred. There is a translator available on the Internet. When students use this device, they see how merely translating words can leave one with a totally incomprehensible statement. This can be quite humorous as well as informative.