Date Activities and Assignments

3/5

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  Bell Work – Rocky Living
  
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  Ancient Greece Part 1 Ppt slides 1-5 on geography, Minoans
  
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  Read “Atlantis: Myth or Reality?”
  
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  Read “The Myth of the Minotaur”
  
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  Includes videos:
  
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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4pIdUhXPAI
  
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  Palace 3D Reconstruction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJd88cTRsU
  
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  3D Tour https://wwutube.com/watch?v=LGsVKFld6XM
  

3/6

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  Bell Work: Middle East Map Introduction
  
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  Gods and Goddesses Web Quest – Chrome lab #1 booked
  

3/7

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  Finish Gods and Goddesses Web Quest – Mobile Lab 1 booked
  
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  Check it if there is time. If not time, do that Thurs.
  
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  For next year, Which Greek God Are You? Quiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIjPTlCEAXc
  
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  For next year, Which Greek Goddess Are You? Quiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Ip0M09KS4
  

3/8

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  Bell Work: Explanation
  
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  Ancient Greece Part 1 Ppt slides 6-7 on Mycenaean and Trojan War, polis
  
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  Read “The Myth of How the Trojan War Began”
  
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  Includes videos:
  
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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELH_5Do-VZI
  
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  Mycenae and Troy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d2GEVippiU
  

3/9

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  Bell Work: Study for Quiz
  
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  Middle East Map Quiz
  
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  Trojan War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_AXAsuqwSE
  
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  Ancient Greece Part 1 Ppt slides 8-10 polis, Dark Ages
  

3/12

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  Bell Work: Heroes
  
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  Introduce countries and capitals list #4
  
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  Ancient Greece Part 2 Ppt slides 1-4. Greek mythology and heroes
  
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  Which Greek Hero are You? Quiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRW9LKTxQSg
  

3/13

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  Bell Work: Olympics
  
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  Ancient Greece Part 2 Ppt slides 5-6, Olympics
  
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  Includes videos:
  
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  HH Olympics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROZRuPBK03E
  
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  HH Flame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ0UB__I9j4
  
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  Slide 7 on types of Greek literature
  

3/14

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  Bell Work: Greek Name This is the Write Your Name in Greek Activity – p. 41 of Ancient Greece! Book. Need to make desk copies.
  
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  Ancient Greece Part 2 Ppt slides 8-11, Greek literature and examples
  
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  Animations on the Sappho slide. Upon clicking, picture will disappear, revealing a poem underneath along with instructions. More clicks show answers and reveal a second poem.
  
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  Read the Aesop’s Fable readings as groups. Have students take turns reading a story aloud to group members, and then coming up with what they think the moral of each story is. Groups will need one student to act as scribe and write down these morals.
  

3/15

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  Bell Work: Greek Stems
  
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  Aesop’s Fables – Have groups read their fable to the class and then share the moral they came up with before displaying the actual written moral.
  
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  Ancient Greece Part 2 Ppt slide 12-14, Greek Influence on Modern Language With slide 14, print out the Greek Influence on Language and cut them apart and hand out to the class to be read (like Sunday school . . . “Who has #1?”)
  
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  HH Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXpS62orsyI
  
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  Review for countries and capitals quiz #4
  

3/16

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  Allow 20 minutes for students to research Hercules and make a bulleted list of facts. Then watch Disney version and write down at least 3 differences between what they had found and the movie.
  

3/19

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  PTC Comp Day – No School
  

3/20

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  Spring Break
  

3/21

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  Spring Break
  

3/22

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  Spring Break
  

3/23

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  Spring Break
  

3/26

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  Bell Work: Study for quiz
  
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  Countries and capitals list #4 quiz
  
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  Research what life was like for a boy or girl as well as what life was like for teenagers (adolescents) in ancient Greece using the website www.mythologyteacher.com Pretend that you live in Ancient Greece and write a 5 day journal telling about your life. Each day’s entry should be at least 7 quality sentences long. Chrome lab #2 scheduled.
  

3/27

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  Bell Work: Government (should have gone with Government lesson)
  
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  Ancient Greece Part 3 Ppt on Government (HH Draco video, but has been removed from youtube)
  
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  (In the future may want to use Government Grab Bag (Vocabulary Activity) from Ancient Civilizations Brain Teasers book p. 27.)
  

3/28

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  Bell Work: Conqueror
  
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  Persian Empire Ppt slides 1-6, Cyrus the Great, Darius I
  
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  Includes videos:
  
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  Cyrus the Great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xveGzQsAIXs
  
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  Ruins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4T5nz-I06Q
  
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  3D Reconstruction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L4E9m27aKY
  

3/29

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  Persian Empire Ppt slides 7-12
  
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  Includes videos:
  
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  HH Battle of Marathon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geR3BrcWSt0
  
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  Thermopylae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzfQzTcAGDc (Preview this one first. Maybe only show to end of words before it shows some of the battle scenes.)
  
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  Time filler - Preview this first: Which Greek God Are You? Quiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIjPTlCEAXc
  
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  Time filler – Preview this first: Which Greek Goddess Are You? Quiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Ip0M09KS4
  

3/30

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  Bell Work: Sparta or Athens?
  
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  Ancient Greece Ppt Part 4 – Sparta & Athens slides 1-7 on Sparta
  
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  Includes videos:
  
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  (removed from youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEItBM1dc9o)
  
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  Other Sparta HH?
  
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  HH Spartan School Musical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QhnlgHKEMA
  
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  Ancient Greece Ppt Part 4 – Sparta & Athens slides 8-11
  

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  Ancient Greece Ppt Part 5 – Peloponnesian War slides 1-2
  

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  Parent Teacher Conferences
  
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5/28

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  Memorial Day
  
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6/1

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  Last Day of School – Half Day
  

6/4

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  Teacher Workday
  

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