Gladiators

Good morning Year 8!

Your task this morning is to find out a bit of information about Gladiators. Here are a few sites to get you started:

• You Wouldn't Want to be a Roman Gladiator is a fun site that follows the fate of a Gaul captured by Roman soldiers, sold as a slave and trained as a gladiator. 
• Roman Gladiatorial Games is not as fun, but has lots of good information.
• This BBC site is also pretty good, and has a cool game to play (dress your gladiator correctly to help him win in the arena).

If you've explored all these sites and more, go to the Cambridge Site to do some vocab revision and grammar games.

[The comics are from here and here]

Modern Day Gladiators?

Another interesting exchange from the letters page last week, regarding the UFC event held in Sydney last week.

Didn't the Romans invent such fighting against lions? And we know what happened to them. Charlotte Drake-Brockman, Murrurundi

(letters, Feb. 25)

Yes, Charlotte Drake-Brockman (Letters, February 25), we all know what happened to the Romans. They ruled over one of the largest empires in history, bringing previously unheard-of technological advances and stability to much of the northern hemisphere, at a time when most human lifetimes were brutal and short. And they did it for more than 500 years. Whatever point you are trying to make is lost on me, but you may as well just compare UFC fans to Hitler and be done with it. Simon Cutting, Manly

(letters, Feb. 26)

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Gladiatores

My year 8 class have been looking at gladiators recently, so I've put together a few sites for them to look at this afternoon.

• You Wouldn't Want to be a Roman Gladiator is a fun site that follows the fate of a Gaul captured by Roman soldiers, sold as a slave and trained as a gladiator.

• Roman Gladiatorial Games is not as fun, but has lots of good information

• This BBC site is also pretty good, and has a cool game to play (dress your gladiator correctly to help him win in the arena).

• Finally have a look at the Cambridge Site to do some vocab revision and grammar games.