Virtual+Field+Trips

=Virtual Field Trips=

=What is a virtual field trip?= Over the course of the year, we will go on 3-4 field trips. However, due to time, money, etc we cannot go to amazing historical places. Instead we will be learning and creating our own field trips to places we cannot physically go to. What this means is that all of us will contribute towards our virtual field trip through images, comments, quotations, primary source documents, artifacts, facts, dates, videos, etc. that have been added by all of us. This contribution will guide us in experiencing a field trip without actually going there.

Example:

=Virtual Field Trip to: The Colloseum in Rome, Italy= =Mr. Han contributes a picture what remains today:=



=toc Jack contributes a video of how engineers built it:=

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=Jamie contributes a document of the brutality of battles:=

Seneca
> Does it serve any useful purpose to know that Pompey was the first to exhibit the slaughter of eighteen elephants in the Circus, pitting criminals against them in a mimic battle? He, a leader of the state and one who, according to report, was conspicuous among the leaders of old for the kindness of his heart, thought it a notable kind of spectacle to kill human beings after a new fashion. Do they fight to the death? That is not enough! Are they torn to pieces? That is not enough! Let them be crushed by animals of monstrous bulk! Better would it be that these things pass into oblivion lest hereafter some all-powerful man should learn them and be jealous of an act that was nowise human. O, what blindness does great prosperity cast upon our minds! When he was casting so many troops of wretched human beings to wild beasts born under a different sky, when he was proclaiming war between creatures so ill matched, when he was shedding so much blood before the eyes of the Roman people, who itself was soon to be forced to shed more. he then believed that he was beyond the power of Nature. But later this same man, betrayed by Alexandrine treachery, offered himself to the dagger of the vilest slave, and then at last discovered what an empty boast his surname was. >
 * Seneca, Epistles 7 - (on the gladiatorial games) [click on link for text]
 * Sen. De brev. vit. 13.6 //THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE//, xiii. 6-8 [Translation from Stoics.com]