Monday December 3, 2018 & Tuesday December 4, 2018

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: What is the worst injury you've ever had?

World Issues: You will have fifteen minutes to work on your World Issues Projects.

Europe Map Studying: We will be playing the Europe Map Game to help study for the upcoming quiz.

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 finishing up on Athenian Democracy. We will specifically be thinking about the ways that our democracy is similar and different to the Athenians. Then, if we have time, we will start talking about the Spartan Oligarchy.

The Steps:

1- Watching recap video on Athenian Democracy.

2- Discussing similarities and differences between Athenian Democracy and United States Democracy.

3- Read article in the Boston Globe on using lotteries.

4- Write paragraph in classroom on lottery elections.

Move on to introduce Spartan Oligarchy hierarchy. 

- 2 Kings control the military.

- 5 elected officials carried out the laws. These men had the authority to prosecute court cases.

- 30 elected men sat on the Council of Elders. You had to be 60 or older. They were on this for life. 

- All 30 or older citizens were part of the assembly.