统治与节奏

拉丁1B的学生一直在研究历史上罗马皇帝的重要性，精心制作研究，阐明每个人物的军事、政治和社会遗产，然后制作一个音乐视频，用音乐和图像表达他们的影响。

学生们有10位皇帝可供选择，从公元前27年开始的奥古斯特·凯撒统治到公元138年结束的特拉亚努斯·哈德里亚努斯。 对于每一位皇帝，学生都被要求引用六个资料来源，其中至少有两个是书。 Latin teacher Dan Blanchard devoted significant time to helping students understand the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, ensuring that their research would be both broad and deep enough so that students would understand the essential facts and events of each emperor’s reign and also the context of the events. “Before students could dig deep into the specific personality or legislation of their Emperor, they had to understand who the person is and their significance to history,” Dan says. 虽然学生可以从维基百科和大英百科全书等网站收集信息，但丹规定，他们不能作为论文的来源。 “The project was really skills-driven. It's about how to do research,” says Dan. Students created explanatory slides with images and writing that provided a biographical overview, the military and political history, as well as the art, architecture, and archaeology that defined the emperor’s reign. 

根据他们的研究，每个学生制作了一个两到三分钟的视频，其中包括两首代表或与他们的皇帝或他们统治时期的历史事件有关的现代歌曲。 For example, one student used Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” to highlight the theme of betrayal, connecting it to Emperor Marcus Salvius Otho, who sought to assassinate his predecessor after being passed over for the position of Emperor. 这个音乐视频挑战学生将他们的学习提炼成要点。 As Dan explains, “If you think about your emperor, what are the most critical pieces of information that you want to convey about this person?”