Ancient Greece & Rome (SE.WH 3.06)

The class will explore significant ideas behind Greek & Roman laws and how they influenced governments to follow. Using real case studies, students will look at practices appropriate for their level and reflect on ways we can learn from our past successes or failures.  Students will use their project ideas from the “Multiple Intelligences” to select a project in their level, to demonstrate “mastery” of the particular theme standard.

What is power? What forms does it take? Who holds it? How is it gained, used, and justified? What is legitimate authority? How are governments created, structured, maintained, and changed? How can we keep government responsive to its citizens' needs and interests? How can individual rights be protected within the context of majority rule?


SEWH 3.06 = Analyzes the significant ideas, institutions, and laws of Greece and Rome.
PROFICIENT = • Describes the structure of governance in Classical Greece (2100 BC - 150 BC) and Rome (750 BC - 500 AD).
• Defends opinion of the government's responsiveness to their citizens, resolving conflicts, and establishing and maintaining order and security. (Cites sources.)

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Be sure and cite your sources on your project.

All work should be submitted digitally (by e-mail from gaggle.net account) with:
-    Your name
-    Standard#
-    Grade you expect & why (refer to the rubric)
-    What you did well / what you would change next time
-    Your work
Due:  Wednesday, November 11, 2009 to: menadelook_roxy@asdk12.org


Greek Achievements
Government
Athens developed the world’s first democracy.
Philosophy
Classical thinkers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle laid the foundation for most later Western philosophy. Hellenistic thinkers founded new schools of learning.
Literature
Poets wrote long, sweeping epics and beautiful lyric poems.
Historians tried to record major events impartially.
Athenian dramatists wrote the world’s first tragedies and comedies.
Architecture
The ancient Greeks built majestic and stately temples, like the Parthenon, that were characterized by proportional designs and the use of columns.
Art
Painters used red clay and black glaze to create detailed scenes of daily life.
Sculptors tried to capture perfect human forms that looked as though they could move.
Other Key People:
Plato: Greek philosopher; a student of Socrates, he started a school in Athens called the Academy. In The Republic he describes an ideal society run by philosopher-kings.
Aristotle: Greek philosopher and student of Plato; he taught that logic was the tool for any necessary inquiry; his work later became the basis for medieval scholasticism.
Homer: Greek poet, he wrote the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, which tell stories set during and after the Trojan War. (p. 144)
Herodotus: Greek historian; his most famous work is The Histories, which describes major events of the Persian Wars. (p. 145)
Thucydides: Greek historian of Athens; he wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War. He is regarded as the first critical historian and is often ranked as the greatest historian of antiquity. (p. 145)


Resources:

Holt On-Line:  Human Legacy, Chapters 5 & 6

Mathematicians born in Greece
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Countries/Greece.html

Famous Greek Scientists
http://astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses//astro201/famous_people.htm

Early Greek Science:  Thales to Plato
http://galileoandeinstein.phys.virginia.edu/lectures/thales.html

Greek Science After Aristotle
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/archimedes.htm

Minoan Archaeological Finds at Knossos
http://www.dilos.com/region/crete/iraklion_museum_pictures.html

Minoan Crete
http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/minoan/

Greek Art:  Mycenaean Art & Pottery
http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/24.html

Greek Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grge/hd_grge.htm

Greek Art:  Archaic Architectural Sculpture
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~arth101/html-bell/archaic-3.html

Classical Greek Sculptures
http://library.thinkquest.org/23492/

Rome:  Archeology’s Interactive Dig
http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/pompeii/index.html

Pompeii Unraveling Mysteries
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pompeii/index.html

Herculaneum Destruction & Re-discovery
http://www.auav46.dsl.pipex.com/