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The Senate Meets

A Ides of March Latin escape room for Latin II

Works with: Cambridge Latin Course, Book 2, Stages 13–20

The steps of the Senate house on the Ides of March. Caesar's wife has begged him to stay at home, but he has come anyway, and the senators are waiting. Solve seven puzzles to see what they do.

Play the free taster (2 of 7 locks)Members: full room

The taster runs in the browser, with nothing to install. Members share a private class link that opens all seven locks. Sound adds to the atmosphere.

What's inside

  • 7 self-grading locks, all in Latin
  • Vocabulary from Cambridge Latin Course Books 1–2 (to Stage 20)
  • Grammar: imperfect, perfect and pluperfect of venit and videt
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson
Illustration from the picture-count lock of The Senate Meets

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

  1. Crossword — the Senate, power and danger, in Latin from Book 2.
  2. Anagrams — unscramble seven things that happen at a meeting.
  3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
  4. Matching — two verbs, venit ("comes") and videt ("sees"), in the imperfect, perfect and pluperfect.
  5. Picture Count — reassemble the steps of the Senate house, then count what you see.
  6. Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
  7. Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters spell the final word.

Most classes take about 50 minutes. Students can work alone, in pairs or in small teams on any device with a browser, or you can project the room and solve it together as a class. Every answer checks itself, so you are free to circulate, and progress is saved in the browser, so a room can be split across two lessons.

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