Ancient+Greece

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media type="custom" key="28353251" GETTING KNOWLEDGE READY: This semester we are going to get to know some groovy Greeks. We will start with meeting some well-known Greek groovers followed by a museum tour. As we meet each groovy Greek note something you hear about them in the boxes on your handout. You will then transfer a copy of these notes into a word doc for Humanities that has the heading __Ancient Greece by (insert your name)__:
 * Diogenes ||  Pythagoras   ||  Milo of Croton   ||
 * [[image:Diogenes.PNG width="316" height="335" link="@https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Christian_Wink_-_Diogenes_and_Alexander.jpg"]] || [[image:Pythagoras.PNG width="310" height="336" link="@http://www.philosimply.com/philosopher/pythagoras"]] || [[image:msc7humanities/Milo of Croton.PNG width="318" height="348"]] ||
 * =Diogenes -=
 * =Pythagoras -=
 * =Milo -=

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=Use the map below to reproduce, with as much accuracy as you can, a map of Ancient Greece. Use colour carefully and label the main cities and mountains of Greece. On your map also identify the countries that surrounded Ancient Greece.=

=Click the map of Greece to find supplementary information at the site the map comes from. Present some of the information on the border of your A3 blank map. A copy of the map template is provided below:=



media type="custom" key="28353273" **__LEARNING__** **__TASK:__**
 * 1) Explore the information at The British Museum’s online Ancient Greece exhibition
 * 2) Take note of important words that relate to the topic of Ancient Greece in the box on your handout. (20+ words required)
 * 3) Create a Wordle and a Tagxedo using your words. (See which presentation tool you like best)
 * 4) Print your Wordle/Tagxedo to present in your Humanities display folder. Snip it/them to display in your Ancient Greece word doc.

=media type="custom" key="28353285" Use 5 - 10 of the words from your wordle/tagxedo and present them in a word glossary. Make sure you use a table that shows the word, its definition and a picture that relates to it. E.g.,=


 * =WORD= || =DEFINITION= || =PICTURE= ||
 * Democracy || G overnment by the people;a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. || [[image:Democracy.PNG width="242" height="113" link="@http://clancytucker.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/23-april-2014-democracy.html"]] ||
 * Etc... ||  ||   ||

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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief:

**TASK: List all the references to ancient Greek history and beliefs that you can identify in the film, you can use the front and back of this sheet:**

 * ===**Zeus**===
 * ===**Demi god – half human, half god**===
 * ===**Etc**===



media type="custom" key="28356613" ===To continue on your journey of learning about Ancient Greece visit []. At this site you will be directed to undertake a series of tasks that will develop your knowledge about Ancient Greece. You will complete a number of these tasks to create a SAC to hand in. Putting the efforts to produce the best work you can helps you earn positive SPA scores, it also supports you achieving the best levels you can for the end of semester reports.===