{"id":64,"date":"2021-09-18T05:45:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villagecharterschool.com\/2021\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:51:24","slug":"travis-robbins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.villagecharterschool.com\/2021\/teacher\/travis-robbins\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Robbins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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History & Social Sciences  <\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Mr. Robbins’ program is a three-year rotation. Taken as a complete cycle, the three years provide a complete overview of western civilization, as well as introductions to numerous other cultures and peoples.<\/span>\n
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2025 – 2026<\/span>\n
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We are here<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Each student made one of 28 sections of this collaborative paper mosaic of Alexander the Great in 2021\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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 Year 1 <\/strong>covers Ancient Civilizations, spanning from early civilization in the Near East to the decline and dissolution of the Greco-Roman world. <\/span><\/p>\n

Students participate in two simulation games: the Cities of Greece, where they work with teammates to plan and expand a Greek city state in the classical period, followed by the Legions of Rome, where each student becomes a senator in the old Roman republic, striving to obtain power, and, ultimately, seek the imperial laurel.  <\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Cities of Greece\n
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You are a citizen in one of six CITIES OF GREECE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your goal is to build the wealth, power, and culture of your city through careful planning and strategic thinking. <\/strong><\/p>\n

You will need to raise armies, build magnificent monuments, found colonies, and make allies across the Mediterranean in your quest. You will also need to manage the ever-present Persian Empire to the east, who always threaten to invade your land! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps, if you manage your city carefully, it might become the forge of an empire that will remake the world!<\/strong><\/p>\n

If not, your city might be destroyed and your people enslaved. It happens.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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  1. You will need to work with your fellow citizens. Each week, you will meet with your government and decide who will oversee important tasks for your city. <\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Then, you will advise your leader on how you should assign your city\u2019s wealth and population.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Finally, you will undertake a weekly Crisis, a task that requires your whole city to work as a team. Your success will determine if your city receives a bonus or a penalty to your tasks that week.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Your leader will submit your decisions for review.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. You will be updated on the outcome of your turn and your resources will be updated at the end of each week. <\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    1. There are three resources you earn with weekly tasks: food, wealth, and culture.<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. Your food affects your population, which is a separate resource.<\/strong><\/li>\n
    3. Each citizen generates Power by completing weekly assignments: usually the English assignment, the History Review, and the math sections. Your Power is determined by the number of points you earn on each.<\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. The amount of a resource you generate is equal to your Power that week. <\/strong><\/li>\n
    5. You can use some resources to create Buildings in your city. These generate resources each week automatically. <\/strong><\/li>\n
    6. Culture can\u2019t be destroyed and is probably the score that will win you the game.<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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      1. In ancient Greece, wealth was measured in many ways. Wine, slaves, food, art, and coins were all ways people stored and traded value. <\/strong><\/li>\n
      2. Your city will earn wealth depending on which citizens are assigned to Craft.<\/strong><\/li>\n
      3. You must protect your wealth! Excess wealth can be stolen by enemies.<\/strong><\/li>\n
      4. Wealth is used to buy buildings in your city. <\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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        1. You earn food by assigning citizens to Farm. Each citizen earns as much food as their Power that week.<\/strong><\/li>\n
        2. For every 25 food your city stores, you gain 1 population per week. You can\u2019t control this growth!<\/strong><\/li>\n
        3. Each population in your city eats 1 food per week. This is done automatically.<\/strong><\/li>\n
        4. If your food falls to 0, any unfed population starve or flee the city.<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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          1. Culture represents myths, music, poems, art, and philosophy–all the intellectual products of your civilization.  <\/strong><\/li>\n
          2. Culture is earned by assigning citizens to Think. <\/strong><\/li>\n
          3. Culture is never used directly, but it cannot be stolen or lost: once gained, it is yours forever. <\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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            1. Your population will rise when you have extra food and lower if you don\u2019t. <\/strong><\/li>\n
            2. Population gives bonuses to Citizen Power on tasks! <\/strong><\/li>\n
            3. Each point of population can be assigned as a \u201cbonus\u201d to your citizens. If you have 10 population, you can assign them to your citizens to increase their power.<\/strong><\/li>\n
            4. For example, if Bob is assigned to Craft, and he has a Power of 23 that week. If he is given 3 population, his Power is now 26. His city gains 26 wealth this turn.<\/strong><\/li>\n
            5. You should make sure to assign your entire population each turn. Remember each point of population can only be assigned to one Citizen per week.<\/strong><\/li>\n
            6. A higher population can be hard to feed but is helpful to build a powerful city.<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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              1. Citizens assigned to Guard protect the city from raiders.<\/strong><\/li>\n
              2. Citizens assigned to Raid target the city with the highest wealth score that is NOT allied to their city.<\/strong><\/li>\n
              3. Multiple citizens can guard or raid: their Power is combined.<\/strong><\/li>\n
              4. A city can only be the target of 1 other city\u2019s raid per turn. If a city has been raided, the next raiders will attack the second-wealthiest city, then the third, etc.<\/strong><\/li>\n
              5. If a city is attacked, the Power of the attacker is compared to the power of the Guards.<\/strong><\/li>\n
              6. If the attacker\u2019s Power is less than the Guard power, the attacker loses. The defending city gains culture equal to the difference between their Guard power and the attacker\u2019s power. <\/strong><\/li>\n
              7. If the attacker\u2019s Power is greater than the Guard Power, the attacker steals wealth and food equal to the difference between their attack power and the Guard power of the target.<\/strong><\/li>\n
              8. Every city starts with an Acropolis that protects 50 of each resource from attackers.<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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                1. Extra population can be sent out to form colonies. <\/strong><\/li>\n
                2. Populations used to build colonies permanently leave your city, but your city gains a colony on the Political Map. <\/strong><\/li>\n
                3. Citizen Power dedicated to colonies creates the colony\u2019s Defense value against raiders. <\/strong><\/li>\n
                4. Population assigned to Colonize permanently leave the city! <\/strong><\/li>\n
                5. Your colony will send you Wealth and Culture every week equal to its population, and it requires no food. <\/strong><\/li>\n
                6. Colonies are best used if you think you might face starvation soon. <\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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                  1. Each turn you may order new construction in your city.<\/strong><\/li>\n
                  2. To construct, fill out the Construction page on your weekly Task chart. <\/strong><\/li>\n
                  3. Buildings provide permanent bonuses but cost resources to build.<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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                    1. Every week, your city will face a Crisis. You should work with your team to resolve it. <\/strong><\/li>\n
                    2. Your reaction to the Crisis could give bonuses or penalties to your Citizen Power, resources, and even buildings.<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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                      1. At the end of the game, a series of extreme Crises will destroy your world.<\/strong><\/li>\n
                      2. Only a strong city can survive.<\/strong><\/li>\n
                      3. The city with the highest combined culture, wealth, food, and population wins the game!<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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                        1. Every city can dedicate a temple to one of their patron gods. This costs gold and requires a Construction Project.<\/strong><\/li>\n
                        2. A temple gives permanent bonuses to your cities Culture and wealth, but requires huge amounts of wealth. <\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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                          Year 2<\/strong> takes students into the Middle and early Modern ages, beginning with the tumultuous European middle ages.<\/span><\/p>\n

                          Students participate in the Kingdoms game, where they guide their feudal dynasty through centuries of trade, intrigue, and of course, castle-building. <\/span><\/p>\n

                          We then enter the renaissance and age of exploration, culminating in the settlement of what will become the United States of America. <\/span><\/p>\n

                          In our Merchant Princes game, set in the complex 17th-18th centuries, students build commercial empires and seed the modern world as they chart the entire globe for the first time in human history.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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                          Master Smiths Forging The Finest Plate Armor<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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