Name: Rosy Thinn

Lesson: 06
Topic: Chariot Race (Blue vs. Green riots) in the Hippodrome
Grade: 7 (50minutes)
Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment
Chariot race was one greatest hope for the Group poster presentation project (at the end of the unit)
slaves regain their freedom during that time.
For us today, we do not need to try hard to
set free from being the slaves of sins for
Jesus Christ has paid for our sins and we
have been set free.

[Because through Christ Jesus the law of the

Spirit who gives life has set you free from the
law of sin and death.] (Roman 8:2)

Guiding Questions Objectives (know/understand/do/value)

The student will . . .
1. What are the differences between the - view the popular chariot races during the Byzantine
two racing men? era
2. What kind of person is the one who - Evaluate the purposes of the race
won?
3. What do you think the purpose(s) of the
chariot race?
Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies
5mins Beginning the Lesson
Listing agenda on the board and welcoming students
o Review
o Watching a video clip
o Discussion and lecturing
o Preparing for Poster Project
Greeting
Telling todays agenda
Review: What have you learned so far? Ask this question as a class and students will raise
5mins
their hands to answer.
- Introduce todays topic Chariot Race in the Hippodrome and objectives of the topic
Introduction
- Teacher will show a video clip. Before they watch it, teacher will tell them to watch
5mins carefully the two racing men. Their differences in terms of clothing, looks, and their
chariots.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chariot+race+in+ben+hur

Developing the Lesson

10mins - Discussion will go on as a class.
1. What are the differences between the two racing men?
2. What kind of person is the one who won?
3. What do you think the purpose(s) of the chariot race?
Lecturing: tell as a story
5mins
(Charioteers, who generally started out as slaves, took these risks because there were
fortunes to be won. Successful racers who survived would be set free and would
grow enormously wealthy. A Roman poet suggested that it was possible to make as
much as 15 bags of gold for winning a single race. In the days of the Roman republic,
the races featured four color-themed teams, the Reds, the Whites, the Greens and the Blues,
each of which attracted fanatical support. By the sixth century A.D., after the western half of
the empire fell, only two of these survivedthe Greens had incorporated the Reds, and the
Whites had been absorbed into the Blues. In the sixth century A.D., after the western half of
the empire fell, only two of these survivedthe Greens had incorporated the Reds, and the
Whites had been absorbed into the Blues. But the two remaining teams were wildly popular
in the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire, which had its capital at Constantinople, and their
supporters were as passionate as everso much so that they were frequently responsible for
bloody riots.)
- Biblical integration: Chariot race was one greatest hope for the slaves regain their freedom
during that time.
For us today, we do not need to try hard to set free from being the slaves of sins for Jesus
Christ has paid for our sins and we have been set free.
2mins Read together:
[Because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the
law of sin and death.] (Roman 8:2)
Closing the Lesson
Teacher will remind the Rubric for poster presentation.
- Tell them to get into groups of poster project. (They can choose the spot where they like to
work)
- Provide time for the students to prepare for their poster project (They have to do research,
discuss and allocate their tasks. They have to list/jot down on a paper of what they
discover)
20mins - Teacher will walk around and monitor each group so that teacher will be able to help when
they need help or have questions.
- Students will turn in that paper at the end of class. (to check if they are really working or
not)
- Class dismiss
Formative Assessment Differentiation
Class Discussion
Group work participation
Resources

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chariot+race+in+ben+hur
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blue-versus-green-rocking-the-byzantine-empire-113325928/