Subject: - Currituck County Schools



|Subject: World History |Timeframe Needed for Completion: |

|Grade Level: 9 | |

|Unit Title: Ancient Greece and Rome: Toga Party |Grading Period: 1st 9 weeks |

|Big Idea/Theme: Greece’s lasting impact on today’s society |

|Understandings: Geographic location, government and function within the society, trading influence, religion, social classes |

|Curriculum Goals/Objectives: |Essential Questions: |

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|Analyze ancient civilizations and empires in terms of their development, |How does geography affect the people who live in that area? How do people differ because of Geography? |

|growth and lasting impact. |How do religious beliefs guide a society? |

| |Does everyone always think the same? |

| |Is there one type of government that is better than another? |

| |How do groups of people organize and grow? |

| |How and why do civilizations change over time? |

| |What makes a country weak? Strong? |

| |Why does slavery exist? |

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|Essential Skills/Vocabulary: |Assessment Tasks: |

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|Aristocracy Beginnings of Christianity |Time Travel Journal |

|Democracy Republic |Olympic web quest |

|Monarchy Senate |Speed dating with the philosophers |

|Oligarchy Punic Wars |Greek god project |

|Philosophers Triumvirate |*Create a Roman Mural |

|Hellenistic Age Pax Romana |*Create a time line showing the change from Republic to Empire |

|Mythology Patricians/ Plebeians |*Create a graphic organizer showing the Governmental structure of the Roman Republic |

|Persian War Coliseum/Gladiators |*Write an obituary for a Roman Ruler |

|Peloponnesian War Etruscans/Latin |*Write a GIST on the Fall of Rome |

|Olympics Paterfamilias |*Compare and contrast our ..law code…government with that of Ancient Rome |

|Architecture Code of Justinian | |

|Theater Fall of Rome | |

|Education Byzantine Empire | |

|Sparta/Athens | |

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