Distillation Paragraphs

In class, I outlined what I identified as the first two stages of the Roman Republic - Internal Stabilization/Italian Expansion (509-275) and Mediterranean Expansion (275-129). Your assigned readings over the last two days (9-16 and 33-41) deal with the final stage. In class today, and continuing tonight as homework, I would like you to distill those readings into summary paragraphs, highlighting the key elements of the 3rd stage (129-27).

To make things easier (or perhaps harder), I am going to restrict your sentences. For each section of the reading, you may only include the following amount of sentences:

Packet 9-16
From the Gracchi to Augustus - 2 sentences
Rise of Marius - 2 sentences
Marius, Saturninus, and Veterans - 1 sentence
Social War - 1 sentence
Sulla - 2 sentences
Pompey - 2 sentences
Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar - 1 sentence
Clodius and His Gangs - 1 sentence
The Civil Wars - 2 sentences

In addition, you must integrate one sentence for each of the primary sources you read into the proper part of your summary.

Here are the specific expectations:

• Do not exceed the sentence restrictions or skip any of the required sections. You should finish with exactly 21 sentences
  
• At most, you may use short quote fragments, but certainly not full sentence quotes
  
• Wording should be your own; quotes should, of course, be cited
• Choose a name for this third stage of the Roman Republic and include this as the title
• Content assessment will focus on what you include AND what you omit. In other words, you must choose carefully which details are most significant and demand inclusion in your summary. If you miss important details, that will be counted against you
• I'm looking for cohesive paragraphs, not a series of individual sentences. So, make sure the ideas flow smoothly from one sentence to the next
  
• Please turn in a hard copy, double-spaced and thoroughly proofread. Have an MLA-style header (Your name, my name, class name, date - all single-spaced)
• You may work alone or in pairs. Your choice.
• Due beginning of class tomorrow; poor use of class time today will be counted against your grade.]