21 Jan Year 6, Spring 1, Week 3
This week, the Year 6 class worked in trios in humanities to unpick sources of evidence, which would support them in finding about Roman crime and punishment. The class were given the role of Pupil A, Pupil B or Pupil C.
Pupil C was the silent summariser, who listened to the conversation between Pupil A and B and summarised their key points and fed them back to the class. Partner A and B discussed what crimes and punishments were shown in the source of evidence and to what extent the evidence was reliable. They also discussed whether the evidence was primary or secondary and how that supported its reliability. The silent summarisers fed back to the class and they agreed that minor crimes such as “selling underweight bread” would have been punished in the Roman times and punishments would have included violent acts: being fed to vicious animals for example or throats being cut with cold steel.
They were quite shocked to learn about how severe the crime and punishment was in The Roman era and agreed that the sources of evidence that we used could be considered reliable, as many they were created during The Roman Empire.