Perseus and the Gorgons.....Medusa!

Perseus and The Gorgons


Perseus and The GOrgon story and Discussion questions

Current Events- The Race for Atlanta- Turn in Vocab Stories-

Any Current Events?

The Race for Atlanta

Answer these questions after reading the short story~

1. Aphrodite whispered her plan to Melanion. What words to you think she used? List 10.


2. Atlanta knew that losing the race was a small price to pay for her happiness. Write wheather you agree with Atlanta. Explain your reasons.


We will be turning in our vocab stories today!

Reading them with a partner.

We sill be signing up to lead an Olympic activity for our classroom Olypmics on Friday!


Interactive Greek Games

Current Events- Read Greek Phaeton and the Sun Charoit- Vocab story due tomorrow

Any current events today?

We will be reading Phaeton and the Sun Chariot

Myth of Phaeton- and supporting questions

Phaeton and The Sun Chariot

The Creation of the African people and climate

Ancient Greek Vocab Quiz

Ancient Greek Vocab Quiz

2nd hour
Organize all the vocab words into groups. People, Places, and Things. This will help you write a creative story. You can work in groups!

people
assembly
orator

jury
helots
platoon

Places
peninsula
harbor
peloponnesus
crete
phoenicia
agora
acropolis
athens
sparta
polis

things/ideas
phalanx
commodity
architecture
democracy



Write Creative Story using all of your Greek vocab words! Due on Monday when you get back!

6th hour
We are going to go visit Mrs. Kempton's class and watch the play "The Odyssey"

The Odyssey


Thanksgiving 

Native America Perspective- Thanksgiving

From the Voice of a Native American

War in Greece-

Vocabulary

Helots- farmers that could not leave land- little better than slaves- ½ food payment to soldiers

Polis- city

Platoon- a group of soldiers

Phalanx- organization on the battle field where you protect the man next to you

Sparta- a city state- war focused


Sparta vs. Athens  Our World Text page 192

In small groups, read and describe these city-states. Whole class fill in Venn Diagram.


Whole class read:
Please open your book to page 202- Subtitled The Peloponnesian War


We will turn in our Greek Maps today!


Sparta


the Peloponnesian War


Fun Ancient Greek Games

Greek Achievements Debate- Map - Vocab Review

The Greeks are known for their achievements and contributions to American culture. Please open to page 201 in the OUR WORLD text. It will give you a list of their achievements and short descriptions.


What do you think is the most important? least important? why?


Can you think of any Greek contributions that aren't on that list?


What questions can we ask about the Greeks that will help us to understand our culture more?

Will America impact the world the way Ancient Greece did? why or why not?

What will students in 2000 years be learning about America?

The Impact of Greek Scholars

Socrates, Plato, Euclid, and Hippocrates were four of the greastest figures from ancient Greece. The idea of education- and the lifelong quest for knowledge that it entails- is important to a person's success has its roots in ancient Greece. Much of today's understanding of philosophy, medicine, mathematics, and education itself can be traced back to important Greek teachers.

How can asking questions actually help you learn more answers?


Vocabulary

Philosophy: thinking and discussing about human life: Socrates, Plato, Euclid, Hippocrates

Architecture: the art of building a building Parthenon- at the heart of the acropolis , marble temple to Athena

Orator-  a person skilled at public speaking

Jury- a group of citizens who hear evidence and make decisions in a court of law

Commodity- a traded product : olive oil, pottery, metal work

Ancient Greek Democracy- RULE BY THE PEOPLE!

Vocabulary

Agora- open area- town square- served as a place for meetings

Assembly- citizens gathering to vote on issues that concerned their cities- law-making body

Acropolis- a walled hill, where people could find safety

Athens- a city-state:  poetry/peace, educated, farmers

Read Ancient Greek Magazine 4-5

Impact of Democracy video- 

The origins of democracy go back thousands of years, to the ancient Greek city-states of Athens. How was the form of democracy the ancient Greeks practiced different from the type used in the United States today?

Start Ancient Greece!

The Land of Ancient Greece

Vocabulary

 

Peninsula- an area of land that is nearly surrounded by water (3 sides…Flordia)

Harbor- a sheltered place along the coast for ships and fishing boats

Peloponnesus- main land greece’s peninsula – very mountainous

Crete- the biggest island in the Mediterranean sea- one day sail south

Phoenicia- ancient civilization in Lebanon

          Without any major river to provide silt fir fertile farmland, the ancient Greeks needed to find  other ways to survive. They learned to grow specialized crops, such as olives and grapes. They also skillfully used the sea for travel and trade with other early cultures like: Phoenicians and Egyptians.

Greece Mini Video

Greek Images

Greek map

Please plot these important Greek places on your Map handout. Color water blue and land Green.        

Color code 10 European countries on the back.

- Mt. Olympus
-Sparta
-Athens
-Olympia
-Corinth
-Argos
-Crete
-Mediteranean Sea
-Ionion Sea
-Aegean Sea

Vocabulary test today! Start Ancient Greece....!

We will be taking our vocabulary test today!

Egyptian Vocab Test

Once you are done, please come back to class!

Missing Assignment Day! Make Flash Cards/paint Cartouches- Notebook due tomorrow- Vocab Test tomorrow

Missing Assignments Day!

Make Flash Cards/paint Cartouches.

Notebook Due Tomorrow!

I will grade:

vocab- words and definitions
map-
Mummification steps!
venn diagram christian/egyptian religion
notes about presentation

current events-
History of Halloween- participation
critical thinking- Jewerly/ Women in Power/Time Travel
I'm human Because- web diagram
Name/ Turn it in on Time

Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

The title of "Pharaoh" actually comes to us from the Greek language and its use in the Old Testament. It originates after the unification of Egypt. Pharaoh means "Great House". According to Egyptian legend, the first kings of Egypt were later some of Egypt's most famous gods. We really do not know whether some of these individuals actually existed in human form or what regions of Egypt they may have ruled over. Only at the end of the Predynastic period, prior to the unification of Egypt, can we recognize specific kings who most likely ruled over either northern or southern Egypt. According to many sources, the first real king of Egypt, therefore ruling over the unified land, was Menes, who would have ruled Egypt around 3100 BC, but we have little if any archaeological basis for this name. Nefertiti- King Tut's Mom

Egyptian Structures and the Pyramid Builder

Pyramids were built from the Predynastic period through the Middle Kingdom,. The "Houses of Eternity" were designed to keep the body of the Pharaoh safe so his spirit could male the journey to the afterlife. The workforce was made up of farmers, balers, butchers, toolmakers, and other, all directed by the scribe. These workmen were not slaves. They worked for the Pharaoh during the flooding of the Nile instead of paying taxes or serving in the military.

  

The Great Pyramid

Tomb Adventure

Pyramid builder

Agriculture and The Farmer

The Nile

Today we will Build the Nile in the classroom !!!

Agriculture was the major occupation of ancient Egyptians. Peasants families worked the fields, made fertile by the rise and fall of the Nile. Flax and grain were the major crops. After the sowing, herdsmen brought sheep and goats to trample the seed. During the harvest, a flutist sometimes played lively tuned to keep the workers moving. When at last the grain could be stored, a scribe tallied the results and calculated the state tax.

Nilometer

Review Day!!!

Current Events?

We will be creating the Egyptian end of unit test together! We will quiz each other on the questions that we decide are important to remember.

I will be meeting with those students who presented this week and giving them feedback from the notes I took during their presentation.

I will meet with the students who are presenting next week.

We will hang the posters up in our hallways!

If we have time we will be creating our vocabulary Bingo Card.

The Scribe and Egyptian Language!

Scribes played a significant role in all periods of ancient Egyptian society. Only men could be scribes.  People of upper and lower classes depended on scribes to send messages, record events, register livestock. By the time of the New Kingdom the use of scribes had multiplied, and some recorders had specialized duties such as keeping census, measuring grain, and tracking military gains and losses. Scribes used a palette, papyrus, water cup, and brush holder like those seen at the top of the scribe hieroglyph.
 Lucky for us, scribes wrote on a large stone called the Rosetta Stone. they wrote in three languages: hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek.  It was deciphered by Jean Champollion in 1799.

 Please take out your note book and fill in the following vocabulary:

heiroglyphics-
fresco-
scribe-
papyrus-
Rosetta Stone-


The History of the Rosetta Stone


Egyptian heiroglyphics- Student Produced


What do you think? Debate...Fact or Fiction?

Ancient Egyptian Religion

Religion and Myths

It is easy to find the things that make us different. But, the struggle comes when we try to find what makes us all the same. We will be comparing and contrasting Christianity and Ancient Egyptian religion. When watching this movie above follow along with your venn diagram.


Similiarities
belief in an higher power
amulets
book of spiritual writing to pass down
afterlife
bad people go to the 'under world'
2 brothers- one who was jealous and murdered the other
hiding a baby in the marshes to protect it
"Mother" god
pray
halo

Ancient Egyptian
Book of the Dead
Ankh
Mother god named Isis
Polythestic
Older than Christianity 3000 BC
gods were 1/2 animal
pharaoh was 1/2 god
no freedom to choose religion

Christianity
One God
Bible
younger than Egyptian year 0
Mother god = Mary
All over the world
Human