The Parthenon in Athens
LESSON ONE: WHO ARE THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?
Welcome to Ancient Greece! In this unit, student groups will be assigned an Ancient Greek city state and be expected to:
- Develop a travel website for your Ancient Greek city state to lure visitors to your region.
- Research your city state’s patron god or goddess and create a “fakebook” profile for him or her.
Map of Ancient Greece
1. Class discussion: What do we know about Ancient Greece?
2. Check out the following YouTube links as a brief introduction to Ancient Greece (care of BBC’s Horrible Histories, and MrDowling.com).
After watching, list as many ways as you can that the Ancient Greeks have impacted Western civilization. You may use library books as a reference as well.
3. This link shows a timeline for Ancient Greece:
Ancient Greece – The Greek Timeline (from the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)
Click here for a worksheet based on this timeline. Please fill this out using the online timeline as a guide.
LESSON TWO: WHAT IS YOUR ANCIENT GREEK CITY-STATE STYLE?
1. Go to the following website, BBC Kids – Primary History – Ancient Greece, and click on “The Greek World.” Read the following sections:
- Where western Civilization began
- What was Ancient Greece like?
- How Greece was ruled
- When did Greek civilisation begin?
2. Read the information on the following three pages on Ancient Greek city states on this website:
- Ancient Greek Forms of Government (mrdonn.org)
- Ancient Greek City States (mrdonn.org)
- Ancient Greek City States (MrDowling.com) – The information here is also presented as a YouTube clip (below) that you can watch instead.
3. Get into your groups and read the descriptions of the five most powerful Greek City States from the second website (Ancient Greek City States – mrdonn.org). Decide as a group which City State you would like to be and we will decide as a class how to assign City States.
Homework: Create one Weebly account with your group for your travel website.
LESSON THREE: WHAT MAKES A GOOD TRAVEL WEBSITE
In partners, look up the following websites and fill out the Travel Website Worksheet:
http://www.greece-travel.gr/Greece
http://www.tourismsquamish.com/
Travel Website Worksheet:
Travel Website Analysis Worksheet
Next class we will be developing a marking rubric for your Ancient Greek city state website, based on your website analysis.
LESSON FOUR: WHAT MAKES A GOOD TRAVEL WEBSITE DISCUSSION
In this class we will:
- Discuss what makes a good travel website and create a marking guide for your websites.
- Choose a City States (in groups) to research and promote.
- Divide up the research responsibilities in your group and begin researching. You will use the template below for note-taking and hand in your notes at the end of this unit.
- In groups, start a Weebly travel blog to present your research.
Attachments for this lesson:
Marking Rubric: Coming Soon
LESSON FIVE: DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE SLOGAN
Watch this YouTube Clip about some of the most effective advertising slogans.
What makes these slogans so effective? Think about this as you develop your City State’s slogan.
Read-y? GO! 
Mrs. Ewing, our websites for our city-state isn’t due until Wednesday right?
I will collect your notes in your duotangs on Wednesday morning and begin marking the websites whatever state they’re in on that day. See you next week!
Thanks. One more thing, are we suppose to write our paragraphs in past tense or present?
Hmmmm…. Good question. Because you are pretending you belong to an ancient Greek city state and want to attract tourists, you should us present tense. Unless, of course, you are writing the history section – then it’s okay to use past tense.
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