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MAHS Lesson Plan Overview
Teacher: Kitchens, Chad/Richards, Nicole
Course: World History
Timeframe: Week of September 2
Unit Topic: Classical Mediterranean Societies
Lesson Concept: Cultures of Mountains and Sea, Warring City-States, Democracy and Greece’s Golden Age, Alexander’s Empire, Spread of
Hellenistic Culture
CCGPS Addressed:
● SSWH3 The student will examine the political, philosophical, and cultural
interaction of Classical Mediterranean societies from 700 BCE to 400 CE.
Essential Question: What impact did the cultures of classical Greece have on the modern world?
Background Knowledge:
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Chapter 1-Human Origins, Chapter 2-Ancient Civilizations, Chapter 3-People and Ideas, Chapter 4-First Age of Empires
Key Vocabulary:
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Trojan War, Homer, polis, democracy, classical art, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Hellenistic
Learning Plan:
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a. Compare the origins and structure of the Greek polis, the Roman Republic, and the Roman
Empire.
b. Identify the ideas and impact of important individuals; include Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
and describe the diffusion of Greek culture by Aristotle’s pupil Alexander the Great and the
impact of Julius and Augustus Caesar.
c. Analyze the contributions of Hellenistic and Roman culture; include law, gender, and science.
d. Describe polytheism in the Greek and Roman world and the origins and diffusion of
Christianity in the Roman world.
e. Analyze the factors that led to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
Assessments: (tasks and description)
Formative: Activity Chart comparing Greek gods
Summative: (if applicable) Completed Chart on Classical Greece
Resources and Application:
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Textbook, Created Documents, Classzone, Google
Differentiation:
We will use classzone.com as both a review tool and as an extension activity. Those that have mastered the standard can go on to more advanced
activities. Those students that are still emerging in terms of mastery can use the review activities.
Co-Teaching Model:
One teach/one
observe
One teach/ one assist
Team teaching
X
Station teaching
Parallel teaching
Alternative teaching
Notes:
Ms. Richards and I will both deliver the material. We each have points to add on the presentations. We work
together on assignments in terms of grading, posting, and creating.