Ancient Greece: Learning Centers Directions:
In your groups, you will be going through 5 learning centers today. You will spend 12 minutes at each center. At each center you will complete an assignment that corresponds to a page in this packet. At times, the tasks may require you to work well as a group, but you will turn in your individual, high-quality completed packet at the end of class. In other words, each person completes their own packet, but you can work together as a group to complete each assignment.
If you don’t finish all parts of your packet during class it becomes homework for tonight!
Center Information:
Center Area of Contribution Activity Page in Packet
#1 Philosophy Historical Head 2
#2 Poetry Writing a Poem 3
#3 Sculpture/Architecture WebQuest 4
#4 History, Math, Science Chart 5
#5 Drama Advertisement 6
For this center, use the textbooks (pp. 115-116) at your desks to complete the following.
PART 1: Read the biographical sketches about Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle on pgs.115-116 the textbook or on page 7 of your packet.
PART 2: Construct a “historical head” of the philosopher you have been assigned – this will be determined by the desk that you’re sitting in! Fill-in the head below with 4 thoughts, ideas, visions, or achievements of your specific philosopher. Also, please be sure to include at least 3 images that you quickly draw yourself.
Number the images and provide a sentence that identifies and describes each image in the space below. Use COLOR and IMAGINATION!
1.________________________________________________________________________________________
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2.________________________________________________________________________________________
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3.________________________________________________________________________________________
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My Philosopher:
CENTER #2: POETRY
For this center, use the textbooks (p.103-104) to explore Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey and the handouts that I have provided to generate some ideas!
Write a short poem of at least 8 lines in the box below about Ancient Greece. Topics that you can cover include: aspects of Athenian society during the Golden Age, Spartan military might, mythology, Greek geography, etc. It’s your chance to show off what you know! The poem does not need to rhyme, but BE CREATIVE! Use the terms on the station’s worksheets to help you generate ideas!
Examples… check it, Mr. Liechti is spittin’ rhymes!
Ancient Greece in the years B.C.
Was no doubt the No. 1 place to be Between Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey, There was no shortage of great poetry.
An epic was a poem that was often long.
Traveling poets would often break out in song Singing ballads about heroes from war, It was something Pericles would adore!
Yo, the city-state of Athens was the place to be, Art, science, theater and what about democracy, Located next to the Aegean Sea,
Athens controlled the waters after Thermopylae, Wait! Don’t forget about that city-state to the south, Sparta was beast with its military ready to bust you in the mouth,
They were fierce and didn’t mess around,
Even if there was no art or sculptures to be found.
My Poem:
Jay Z says, “Greece has got SWAG!
Have fun with this activity and be
creative!”
For this center, use the textbook (pp.116-117) and laptop to complete the activity.
PART 1: Read pgs.116-117 on Architecture and Sculpture. Then, answer questions 1-3 below.
PART 2: Follow the directions to get to the websites on Greek architecture. Then, answer questions 4-10 below. Website #1 http://tinyurl.com/gsrp65s
Website #2 http://www.ancient.eu/parthenon/
Website #3 http://tinyurl.com/74qv7u9
Textbook:
1. What is considered the most famous example of Greek architecture?
2. Describe Greek sculptures by the 400s B.C.:
3. What kind of sculptures did Phidias create? Name one of the statues that he sculpted.
4. Website #1 (scroll down): Name the three orders of Classical Greek architecture (hint: columns):
5. Website #1: Who mainly used Doric architecture in Ancient Greece?
6. Website #1 (scroll down): Identify where the below architectural styles were used in Ancient Greece.
Doric Ionic Corinthian
7. Website #2: Why did Pericles order the Parthenon built?
8. Website #3 (4th paragraph): What type of building in Ancient Greece most exemplified the aims and methods of Greek architecture?
9. Website #3 (5th paragraph): This constituted, or made up, the main cost of erecting a temple:
10. Website #3 (5th paragraph): How was a completed temple, like the Parthenon, held together?
CENTER #4: HISTORY, SCIENCE, and MATHEMATICS For this center, use the websites http://tinyurl.com/jaxsb7s or http://www.studentsfriend.com/historians.html
Or, you may use the textbook (pp.119, 122-123) to complete this activity.
DIRECTIONS: Fill-in the chart below using the textbook or websites. The chart reveals significant contributions of Greek culture to Western civilization in the realms of history, science, and math.
NAME OF IMPORTANT
GREEK FIGURE
What subject did he contribute to? (History,
Science, or Math)
What did he contribute to Western Civilization?
List at least 1 thing…
see if you can get 2!
Why is his contribution significant still today?
Pythagoras
Hippocrates
Herodotus
Thucydides
Euclid
Archimedes
CENTER #5: DRAMA
For this center, use the textbook (pgs. 117-118 and blank paper to complete this activity.
PART 1: Read pp.117-118 on Greek Theater.
PART 2: Create a poster (using the blank paper) advertising any of the tragedies listed below. Be sure to include drawings, a title, and a motto or slogan that catches the attention of Ancient Athenians. Include ideas such as actors (number and gender), theatres, the role of the gods, and any other knowledge you have about the Greeks and their culture. Please put your name on the advertisement and staple it to your individual packet. BE CREATIVE!
Choose one of the following:
1. The Oresteia , written by Aeschylus, was the title of a trilogy of tragedies – a form of drama based on human suffering. The trilogy centered on the death of Agamemnon, king of Argos, who was returning home from the Trojan War. Agamemnon’s very own wife had plotted his death because she had fallen in love with his cousin!
2. Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles, was a tragedy that Aristotle called “a perfect example of tragedy.” In the play, the main character – Oedipus, King of Thebes – is abandoned as an infant by his own family. Years later Oedipus unknowingly kills his biological father and marries his biological mother. As the truth is revealed, his mother commits suicide and Oedipus blinds himself.
3. The Trojan Women, written by Euripides, was a tragedy showing the pain and misery of war. The play examines the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and defeat
of its populace by the Athenians!
Socrates
-Education was the key to personal growth
-Students should think for themselves in order to learn -Socratic Method: teaching through questioning -criticized democracy
-had many enemies, who eventually put him on trial, where he was tried and executed -“right living” (duties and honesty should be taught)
Plato
-Wrote down his ideas -Socrates’s student
-founded the Academy, a school in Athens -government, education, justice, and religion
-“Theory of Forms” (perfection could never be reached in the physical world) -Humans had two parts: soul and body
-The Republic, a dialogue about aristocracy Aristotle
-Plato’s student
-founded his own school
-every field of knowledge studied logically -classified plants and animals
-Ethics and Poetics -limited democracy
Students will know that:
Aeschylus and Sophocles made contributions in drama.
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey made contributions in the poetry of Western Civilization.
Herodotus and Thucydides contributed to the study of history.
Phidias was one of history’s greatest sculptures.
Three types of columns that Greece contributed to Western Civilization were: Doric (Parthenon), Ionian, and Corinthian.
Archimedes and Hippocrates contributed to modern medicine and science.
Euclid and Pythagoras contributed to the study of mathematics.
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle helped give rise to the study of philosophy, which is the study of basic questions of reality and existence
Students will understand that:
Athenian culture, during the Classic Era, became one of the foundation stones of Western Civilization.
Students will be able to:
Determine the subject (content) and the significance of the contributions of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Phidias, Archimedes, Hippocrates, Euclid, and Pythagoras.
Compare and contrast Doric, Ionian, and Corinthian columns.
Explain the significance of the contributions made by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to the study of Philosophy.
