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Thursday, October 31st, 2013

10/31/2013

 
Daily Question (5 min)
Pass back all papers and Grades (10 minutes) 
Pass Out yellow sheets for Monday Detentions
Lecture Notes (15 minutes)
Introduce "Creating Your Own God" Assignment and show examples from last year (10 minutes)
Discuss Greek Mythology
Begin "creating your own god" assignment

Wednesday, October 30th 2013

10/30/2013

 
Daily Question ( 5 Minutes)
Introduce Greek Alphabet (5-10 minutes)
Assignment - creating Greek words (25 minutes)
Have students write some words on the board and have others try to translate them(10 minutes)


Tuesday, October 29th 2013

10/29/2013

 
Daily Question ( 5 minutes)
Continue to work on Ancient Athens worksheet (20 minutes)
Grade Ancient Athenians worksheet (10 minutes)
Lecture Notes (15 minutes)

Monday, October 28th 2013

10/28/2013

 
Daily Question ( 5 minutes)
Philosopher Quote Activity (10-15 Minutes)
Read - Ancient Athenians Packet, individually (10 minutes)
Work on questions (remainder of hour, due tomorrow)

Friday, October 25th 2013

10/25/2013

 
Daily Question (5 minutes)
Finish Comical History (10-15 Minutes)

Discuss Homework for Monday - Find Quote from Greek Philosopher, write it down and bring it into class with a sentence or two describing what you think it means. 

Continue Lecture Notes over Philosophers

Read - Midas Touch as a class - discuss meaning, and Greek Mythology and Fables 

Thursday, October 24th 2013

10/25/2013

 
Daily Question ( 5 minutes)
Turn in Maps of Greece 
Powerpoint Notes (10-15 Minutes)
Read - as a class Section over Athens & Sparta (5 minutes)
After Reading, create Venn-Diagram between two City States (10 minutes)
Begin Comical History and start drawing pictures that describe Athens and Sparta (remainder of hour, will continue tomorrow)

Discuss Homework for Monday - Find Quote from Greek Philosopher, write it down and bring it into class with a sentence or two describing what you think it means. 

Wednesday, October 23rd 2013

10/23/2013

 
Daily Question (5 min)
Google Earth - Looking at pictures of the landscape of Greece (5-10 Minutes)
Continue Notes (5-10 minutes)
Start map of Greece (20-25 minutes - due on Thursday)

Discuss Homework for Monday - Find Quote from Greek Philosopher, write it down and bring it into class with a sentence or two describing what you think it means. 

Tuesday, October 22nd 2013

10/22/2013

 
Daily Question (5 min)
Check Guided reading (10 minutes)
Watch Trojan Horse Clip ( 5 min) 
Begin Lecture Notes (5 Min)


Discuss Homework for Monday - Find Quote from Greek Philosopher, write it down and bring it into class with a sentence or two describing what you think it means. 

Monday, October 21st 2013

10/21/2013

 
Daily Question (5 min)
Introduce Reading (2-3 minutes) Discuss reading strategies
Independent reading pages 278-282
Complete Guided reading worksheet for homework + Greek Terms

Thursday, October 17th 2013

10/17/2013

 
Daily Question (5 min)
Pass back graded work, and collect missing assignments (5 minutes)
Globe Practice - Drawing the world and labeling the continents, and oceans (3 minutes)
Begin final globe skills packet - #11-12 Using Latitude and Longitude Lines (Should be due at the end of the hour)
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  • Home
  • GLCE's
    • History >
      • History in Temporal Terms
      • Era 1 Beginnings to 4000 BC
      • Era 2 Early Civilizations and Pastoral Societies
      • Era 3 Classical Traditions and Major Empires
    • Geography >
      • Spatial Terms
      • Places and Regions
      • Physical Systems
      • Human Systems
      • Environment and Society
      • Global Issues Past and Present
    • Civics and Government >
      • Purpose of Government
      • Structure and Functions of Government
      • Relationship of US to other Nations
    • Economics >
      • Market Economy
      • National Economy
      • International Economy
    • PD, DM & CI
  • Class Calendar
  • 20th Cen Wars
  • Units
    • 7th Grade Curriculum >
      • U1: Intro to World Hist
      • U2: Beginnings of Human Societies
      • U3: Early Civilizations
      • U:4 The Rise of Empires
      • U5: The Fall of Empires
      • U:6 Patterns of Adaption and Reorganizing
  • Student Work Samples
  • Multimedia
  • About Mr. G