Short Report Instructions for Writers and Sayings topics

These directions are for the three students per class that were assigned or volunteered to write a short report on writers or Latin sayings:

If you are doing the Writers or Latin sayings topics: you must write about three writers, or four sayings:

3 Writers - per paragraph
1. Explain when and where the writer lived.
2. What major event happened in their lifetime
3. What type of writing and what subjects they wrote about
4. If possible, what Romans thought about this person's writing
5. Describe one of their major works - books, plays, poetry, etc.
6. A quote and explain it.

If you are writing about Latin sayings:

4 Latin sayings
1. Give the quote.
2. Explain the quote.
3. If there is an event, person, or Roman issue that this quote was about, explain that event, person or issue.
4. Who said it - give a brief detail of who the writer or speaker was.
5. How can this quote be used today as a piece of advice or otherwise.