Team+Sparta+Vs+Team+Athens

The Battle between the City-States

~ Assignment Students, you along side your teammates will partake tonight's Jeopardy challenge: Greek Week. Here you and your team, will test your knowledge on Ancient Greece. = __**Today on Jeopardy **__ =

//**GREEK WEEK!**//
= __Team Sparta -Vs- TEAM Athens __ = **This City-States test their knowledge on Greek History! Who will be the victor?**





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Unit Plan: Ancient Civilization: Ancient Greece: Mythology, Epics, and Fables.

 * Activity One: Time Traveler Webquest! **

Students will explore the webquest: [], in which they will created journal of the time traveler's collected information about their chosen Greek god or goddess. Using such websites as, [] []  [], Students will be able to use the information to present their deity to the class with all of the essential information with a partner. While other students are presenting each student is to write in their journals, detailed information on the Greek god and goddess being presented by the groups. 1. Will be partnered with another student 2. Together will go through the webquest and decide on a Greek god or goddess that has not yet been chosen. 3. In their journals answer such things as:  a. What is you deity’s name?  b. What did your deity govern over? i.e. war, the underworld etc.  c. Is there a known reason for why they govern over this area?  d. Were these deities honored in any way? How?  e. What are the characteristics of your deity? <span style="font-family: Granite,serif; line-height: 14.25pt;"> f. What is/are the legends surrounding your deity <span style="font-family: Granite,serif; line-height: 14.25pt;">4. Groups will also create a Graphic Organizer using the computer software, Inspiration 9, in which they are to create a mindmap or illustrating the family tree of the God and Goddesses, highlighting where their deity fits into the picture. <span style="font-family: Granite,serif; line-height: 14.25pt;">5. All of the information obtained in their journals, will be used to create a presentation with their partner. Students may present this in any fashion, such as powerpoint, movies, blogs/wikis etc., as long as all of the essential information is present. **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Activity Two: ** **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Day 4-6 ** <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Students will read and discover how the Greeks explained phenomena in their world. Students will investigate Ancient Greek myths to explain such question as in; || * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Why does the sun rise and set everyday? <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Students will work in collaborative groups and; <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Select either an Olympian god or Titan. Investigate and research one of the below:
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Day 1-3 **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">How do plants grow?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Who place the stars in the sky?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">What is love, war, jealousy?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">What is lightning and thunder?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Why does the moon change shape?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Why are some things beautiful?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">How do families work?
 * * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Where does fire come from?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">How did the world form?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">What makes a volcano erupt?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">How do birds fly?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Where does snow come from?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Why is there evil in the world?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Who makes the waves?
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Why do humans have different emotions? ||
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">the 12 Olympian gods and goddesses
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">one of the Titans
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">a favorite mythological story
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Discover who and/or what the god, goddess, or Titan of their choice ruled or controlled or be able to retell the myth in their-own words.
 * 5) __<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Create one __<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">of the below projects.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Present the project to the class.

**<span style="font-family: Granite,serif; font-size: 12pt;">PROJECTS **
**<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Choose One **
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">You are a journalist **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">. You are being assigned to investigate the “Greek Gods".
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Create ** <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">a front page of a newspaper that contains a news story.
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">**Write a News Story**
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Use the **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Granite,serif;">Greek Mythology Research Sheet ** to ascertain your facts.
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Include these facts for our next edition of the paper.
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">You may **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">draw ** your illustrations or use images from the Internet.
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">You are an author who writes fiction. **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Choose 5 gods and/or goddesses.
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Read about each, gathering information about how each explains a natural phenomenon.
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Invent ** <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">an original myth that teaches a lesson or explains an event in the natural world, like a volcanic eruption, earthquake, or the monsoons using the knowledge you learned while reading about other gods and goddesses.
 * **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Granite,serif; text-decoration: none;">Write a Short Story ** <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">about your new, original myth using the knowledge you have acquired about the Greek gods and goddesses.
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Illustrate ** <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">your fictional myth using your own drawings or images from the internet.
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">You are an investigator ** <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">- **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">"the Top Cop" **.
 * **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Granite,serif; text-decoration: none;">Write **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;"> **a brief INVESTIGATIVE REPORT** of your findings.
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Investigative reports answer **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">who ** (both Roman and Greek names), **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">what ** (kind of a character they are - personality), **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">when ** (is there a particular time, event they are associated with?) **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">where ** (is there realm, domain), and **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">why ** (were they important or necessary to the Greeks) about your chosen god/goddess.
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">This report will **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">include a summary ** of a myth involving the god or gods in your wanted poster. The myth might help you with your poster and your report.
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Make ** <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">a WANTED POSTER containing specific facts compiled in your report as a companion to your Investigative report.

<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Such as **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">who ** <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">(both Roman and Greek names), **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">what ** (kind of a character are they - personality), **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">when ** (is there a particular time, event they are associated with?) **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">where ** (is there realm, domain)
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Create a Song containing specific facts **

o **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Granite,serif;">Create and write a children's picture book ** <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">that tells the story of your god or goddess. Include all of their details. o <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">**Illustrate** your book with drawings or Internet pictures about your chosen god or goddess. Include all of their details.
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Activity Three: Illustrate your Myth! **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Day 7-8 **
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">You are a children's author **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">.
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">**Plan the sequences of your story**
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">You are a cartoonist **
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif; font-weight: normal;">Make a cartoon strip to retell the story of your chosen Titan, god, or goddess. **
 * **<span style="font-family: Granite,serif; font-weight: normal;">Include the details using "word bubbles". **


 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Groups will then present their projects to the class. **


 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Activity Four: Greek Oracles **


 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Day 9-12 **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif; font-weight: normal;">To find out about the future, many Greeks visited an Oracle. This was a sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for the god or goddess. Oracles listened to question and priests would than then translate her answers. **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif; font-weight: normal;">Students will hold a broadcast to which they will create a live broadcast of the phenomena they chose in, Activity Two of this Unit, and forewarn their fellow citizens of the mayhem to come. Students will organize a list a questions to ask the Oracle as if this was a real broadcast. Students will video type the broadcast and upload the broadcast to the class blog/wiki. **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif; font-weight: normal;">Students are then required to add a voicethread responding to each others broadcast. **


 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Activity Five: **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Day: 13-14 **


 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Greek Poetry and Fables. **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif; font-weight: normal;">Students will explore the works of Aesop and determine the message or moral to each fable. **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif; font-weight: normal;">After group discussion students will choose a fable to present to, in the form of a play, to the whole class. Students will need to include in their play the story elements. Who, what, where, and why? And include a short explanation of the moral or lesson of their fable ****<span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">. **


 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Unit Wrap up: **


 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif;">Jeopardy: Greek Week **
 * <span style="font-family: Granite,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Class is grouped into two groups and competes in a class Jeopardy. Students can compete in categorize such as, but not limited to, Key Vocabulary, Gods/Goddesses, Aesop, Geography, Myths and heroes. Etc. **