"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
- Robert Kennedy
- Robert Kennedy
Essential Question:
How did the Ancient Greeks contribute to modern day society?
Understandings
- The legacy of the Ancient Greeks is still alive within today's society
- Many things we are familiar with today from democracy to theater and mathematical equations and scientific concepts came from the Ancient Greeks
- The Ancient Greeks provided the foundation of our modern society
Concepts
Democracy - Competition - Mythology - Community - Strength - Angles and Congruence - Pythagorean Theorem - Legacy - Perseverance - Evolution
To Knows
The students will know:
- Roots of democracy
- Types of Greek architecture
- Hoplite Phalanx warfare
- Prove theorems involving similarity
- Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right triangles
- The main ideas of Homer's Odyssey
- Greek mythology
- Roots of Biology
- Greek classification of life forms
- Charles Darwin
To Dos
The students will be able to:
- Analyze primary and secondary sources
- Perform research on the topic of their choice
- Construct a timeline
- Build a website using Weebly or Google Sites
- Understand how to create a double entry journal
- Write a letter to a friend about academic content
- Create a video
- Write works cited page for an essay
- Make a KWL chart
- Group and classify various items