Ancient+Greece

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** ANCIENT GRECIAN LIFE: A WEBQUEST **



** Introduction ** ** Ancient Greece was a time and place very different from today's world. Your mission is to find as much information as you can about daily life during this period of history. To report on your findings, you must assume the identity of a man, woman, or child of ancient Greece. You will pretend to live in this time period and bring your character to life. **

** The Task **
** Y ou will assume the identity of an authentic character from Ancient Greece. Your writing and research will be from the viewpoint of the Grecian person you choose to be. You can be a slave, warrior, wife, student, philosopher, artisan, government official, athlete, child, or any other type of character of ancient Greece. You are to write about your life as that person. **

** The Process **
** Select a character from the list below: **
 * ** warrior (Spartan or Athenian) ** || ** wife ** || ** student ** ||
 * ** government official ** || ** child ** || ** athlete ** ||
 * ** artisan ** || ** philosopher ** || ** slave ** ||
 * Use the Internet resources listed below to gather information about this character. Look at the information that is needed for your journal entries. Once the information is gathered you will publish it to your wiki in journal form, written in the first person point of view, as if you were that ancient Greek. Use the format below as your guide. **

**I.** **Section One**

 * Your cover will have a picture of your person and their name and where in Greece they come from. The pictureof an ancient Greek can be drawn or obtained from the Internet. **

** II. Section Two **

 * Your character can be living his/her life in one of the roles listed above, or you can create your won role, providing it is authentic and approved in advance. Gather information about that character from the resources listed. Your first page should "introduce" your character and give some of his/her family history and background. To bring your character to life, include the following information on your first page: **
 * ** Name (make sure it is an authentic Greek name) **
 * ** Family background (marital status, parent s of your character) **
 * ** Occupation **
 * ** Age **
 * ** Educational background **

** III. Sections Three through Five **

 * You are to type three journal entries. It should tell about your occupation, house, ** ** food, clothes, hairstyle, education, weddings, sports, dance/music, entertainment, art, religion, government, architecture, mythology, death and burial. Describe family life as a Greek man/woman/child. They can be consecutive daily entries or they can be selected from several weeks or months. Express the thoughts and feelings of your character as he/she goes about daily life in Ancient Greece. **

**RESOURCES**
[|Greece] [|Ancient Greece for Kids] [|Greece PowerPoints] [|Games] [|Ancient Greece for Teachers]

** Evaluation **
**N ow that you have completed your research and report on Ancient Greece, you will share your findings with the class. One option for your oral report is to dress the part of your character. Students doing this will be given extra credit. Have fun with your report, and think of a novel way to present your research material. **

** Conclusion **
** You have traveled through time to research the lifestyles of the ancient Greeks. Now you have a better understanding of what life was like thousands of years ago in this ancient civilization. What would the Greeks think of our civilizations today? Would they want to borrow ideas from us as we have borrowed from them? You might want to research Ancient Rome on your own and compare these two civilizations **.