We ended our unit on ancient Rome with a lesson about their government. We reviewed a few terms we were introduced to during our ancient Greece unit like democracy, direct democracy and representative democracy.
We put our knowledge of these terms to use during our activity. We converted the classroom into a representative democracy!
Every table (district) nominated one student to run in our election, then districts were given ten minutes to help their nominee draft a speech answering the question “Why am I the best person to represent our class?”
In America we have a representative democracy as well. We are represented by these people:
Before the speeches were delivered we prepared ourselves as listeners. Voters have a very important job, we hold the power to elect the best candidate to represent us but in order to do so we must be well informed. Power to the people!
Listen to our persuasive speeches:
After we all voted and elected our classroom representative, she got to vote on a variety of topics that are meaningful to us. We all had an opinion, but only one of us, our representative, had the power to vote for us!!
To summarize our representative democracy experience we recapped with the following questions:
Parents: See if we can answer these questions for you at home!