Greek legacy project

Today, we'll choose an option for your project

• Adobe Spark Video
• We Video
• Rap Song or Song Parody
• Powtoon
• Virtual Museum​
• Book Creator
• Website - Adobe Spark, Google sites, Weebly
• Other ideas?  Check with me!

Then, you want to PLAN your project.  Please on a Google Doc, start to plan what you want to SHOW, SAY, and EXPLAIN.

step one:  PLANNING

Please use this Google Doc to PLAN EXACTLY what you will present to your audience!  You will work on this every day :). Everyone will fill out everything and try to focus on 2 or 3 of the guiding questions below in Step 3.

​docs.google.com/document/d/1fw7DpJC21116OyERg2GN3NCZj6107_n_9Pu-NgDsJRA/edit?usp=sharing

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step TWO:  What type of project???

Adobe Spark Video

Here's the link to Adobe Spark and select Video:  https://spark.adobe.com

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step three:  checklist to make sure cover your subject

Each group SELECTS ONE AREA to focus on

We'll take a little notes each day and then you'll have time to work on each section. 

Try to answer 2 or 3 of the questions in each area!!!  That way, you'll be able to understand much of CLASSICAL GREEK innovations & culture.

Democracy / Citizenship:

1. Bio of Pericles
2. Other people important to Athenian democracy
3. How does Citizenship work today?
4. Funeral Oration
5. Democracy then and now
6. What other primary sources did you reference?

International Relations

1. Bio of Thucydides / achievements
2. BACKGROUND of the Peloponnesian War
3. WHY did they fight the War?
4. HOW did they fight this War?  Strengths / weaknesses / tactics?
5. How did city states talk/interact/make peace/make war?
6. What was so important about Thucydides writing?
7. What is the end result of the Peloponnesian War?
8. What is the lesson learned from this experience?

Mythology

1. What is a myth?
2. How did myths work in Greek culture?
3. How does Mythology connect to today?
4. Who were the major gods?
5. Where is Mythology now?
6. What literature involved these myths?
7. Why is our knowledge of Mythology important?  MOST IMPORTANT

Alexander the Great

1. Bio of Alexander
2. Battles, Tactics, Weapons, and Strategies
3. Alexander as a Leader
4. How did Greek culture spread and give examples
5. What happened after Alexander died?
6. What is Alexander's Legacy?

Philosophy

1. What is philosophy?  Give a great definition, not just some words out of the book
2. Bio of Three Philosophers
3. What do we use today from these philosophers?
4. How are their philosophies different / the same?
5. What other areas/disciplines were affected by Philosophy
6. ​Were there any other philosophers in Greece that were important?

Literature and History

1. Bio of Herodotus and Thucydides
2. What works of Literature were important?
3. How did the way they write history affect us today?
4. Explain the works of Herodotus, Thucydides and Homer
5. Any other writers?
6. What is the Legacy of Ancient Greek writing?

Art, Architecture, Drama, Sculpture

1. Architecture elements and styles
2. Famous architects and buildings
3. How Greek architecture affects us today?
4. Golden Ratio of Phi
5. Greek art and What is the Ideal?
6. Who are Aristophanes, Sophocles, and Aeschylus?
7. Explain how Greek drama was written and presented to the people? (talk about amphitheaters too!)
8. How does drama still influence us today?  Which ancient Greek plays connect to today?
9. Famous Greek sculptures and sculptors?

Science, Math, Astronomy

1. What is LOGIC and REASONING?
2. ​What ancient Greek inventions changed the world?
3. Explain the contributions of Aristarchus, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Euclid, Hypatia, Pythagoras, Ptolemy, and others.
4. How are modern inventions using the knowledge that the Greeks began?
5. How did these inventors use LOGIC and REASONING to figure out the natural world?

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