Learning Target: Students will be well informed members of society and will be able to formulate educated opinions on global, national, and local issues. Students will know and understand the physical and human geography of Europe. Students will understand current issues that Europe is facing. Students will understand the basic forms of government and where they came from.
Circle: Would you rather live the rest of your life never seeing another person or live the rest of your life never having a moment by yourself? Would you rather be famous when you are alive but then forgotten or would you rather be unknown when alive but famous forever once dead?
World Issues: You will have fifteen minutes to work on your World Issues Projects.
Europe Map Studying: You will be working with a partner to study for the Europe Map Quiz.
The Rules: Once you pick a partner, each group of 2 will need to get a textbook. Then, you will take turns quizzing each other. One partner will ask the other partner to locate a country. If they are able to locate the country they get a point. If your partner is unable to locate the country correctly, you must locate it for them. If you are unable to then locate that country you will lose a point. The game will be played for ten minutes, whichever partner has the most points at the end of the game wins.
Ancient Greek Governments: In this unit we will be focusing on the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans and be looking at the different forms of government that they used. Today, we will be introduced to Ancient Greece. We will be learning the physical structure of Ancient Greece as well as the different forms of government they used. Today, we will be focusing a good chunk of our time on Athenian Democracy.
The Steps:
1- Defining what a Greek City-State was.
2- Discovering what the most powerful City-States were.
3- Discovering what kind of governments these City-States had.
4- Defining democracy. What is direct vs representative?
5- Defining what democracy looks like in America.
6- Discovering what democracy looked like in Athens.
7- Thinking critically about the differences between American and Athenian democracy.
8- Thinking deeper: why is it important for us to understand what a democracy is?
Here is the link we will be using to learn about Athenian democracy. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-did-democracy-really-mean-in-athens-melissa-schwartzberg#watch
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