Announcements:

1: Test

Thursday/Friday

2: Review is on

the Weebly

3: Grades

updated

Bell Ringer: September (4)5, 2018

Materials:

1: Binder

2: Cornell Notes

3: Ancient

Greece

classwork sheet

1. Set up your Cornell notes

2. Across the top of your c-notes, write

today’s lesson topic:

ANCIENT GREECE

3. In the left hand column of your c-

notes, write today’s lesson objective

in the form of a question:

DESCRIBE THE RISE, CHARACTERISTICS, AND EFFECTS OF GREEK CIVILIZATION.

Announcements

1. Test Thursday/Friday

2. Review is on the Weebly

3. Grades updated

Materials

1. Binder

2. Cornell Notes

3. Ancient Greece Classwork Sheet

Announcements:

1: Test 3/9!

Review is on the

Weebly!

2:

Bell Ringer: September (4)5, 2018

Materials:

1: Spiral/blank

sheet of paper

2: Emergence of

Totalitarianism

paper

3: V for Vendetta

Script

1. Set up your Cornell notes

2. Across the top of your c-notes, write

today’s lesson topic:

ANCIENT GREECE

3. In the left hand column of your c-

notes, write today’s lesson objective

in the form of a question:

DESCRIBE THE RISE, CHARACTERISTICS, AND EFFECTS OF GREEK CIVILIZATION

500

BCE

Athens

Sparta

Word Wall Vocabulary:

• Acropolis: fortified hilltop in an ancient city in Greece

• Athens: city-state in Greece- focused on arts

• City-state: city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit

• Democracy: government controlled by its citizens (voting)

• Oligarchy: a government in which all power is in the hands of a few people

• Polis: a Greek city-state

• Sparta: city-state in Greece- focused on military

Cause/Effect of the Development of Greece

Causes Effects

• River valleys were starting

points, and from there, leaders

began to conquer nearby groups

of people and territory

• Governments became more

complex

• Empires developed

• Trade expanded

• Military technology improved

• Increased differences between

social classes

Turn and Talk

Look at the geography of Greece. Will Greece develop into a unified country or develop into separate centers of population? Why?

ANS: Seas (and mountains) separate Greek people from each other, so Greece develops into separate centers of population called city-states.

CLASS

WORK

SHEET

Political Influences of Ancient Greece

Monarchy

• King who inherited his position ruled Greece

Aristocracy

• Government ruled by a small group of nobles

Oligarchy

• Government ruled by a small group of wealthy people (Sparta)

Democracy

• Democracy is rule by the people –they make their voices heard by voting (Athens)

Turn and Talk

Read through the information on your classwork. Which of the Greek city states would you rather belong to? Why?

ANS: Answers vary

CLASS

WORK

SHEET

Political Influences of Ancient Greece

• Greece had many political ideas that have influenced the United States

• A person must be considered innocent until proven guilty

• The burden of proof rests on the accuser

• A person should be punished for action, not thought

• Any law that seems unreasonable should be set aside • All of these are ideas that the United States

borrowed from Greece

Guided Practice: Summary

• In the bottom portion of your c-notes, complete a summary over Ancient Greece

• Remember- the question that you are trying to answer in your summary is the same question that we wrote at the beginning of class: THE RISE, CHARACTERISTICS, AND EFFECTS OF GREEK CIVILIZATION

• Here are some sentence stems to help you out:Ancient Greece formed because…Some of the government systems of ancient Greece were…Greece influenced American government by…

Fun Fact

• Ancient Greeks exercised naked

• The word “school” comes from the ancient Greek “skhole” which means free time

• In Ancient Greece, the word “idiot” was used for anyone who wasn’t a politician

Independent Practice

• In the space provided on your classwork, describe the government system in Athens. Then, describe the ways in which Greece has influenced the United States’ government

CLASS

WORK

SHEET

• Due at the

end of

class:

completed

paragraph

prompt