Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Evolution of Democracy

AIM: I will define 4 political words and document the political evolution of Athens to a democracy.

Standard: 7.8.3 Trace the transition from tyranny to oligarchy to early democracy.

Do Now:
1) What type of government is ruled by a king?
2) What type of government is ruled by the wealthy landowners?
3) What government was ruled illegally?
4) If Cleisthenes was born in 530 BCE and lived 53 years, what year did he die?

Lesson Steps: Today we continued the independent reading from yesterday and students worked on completing the worksheet from Monday. We also went over our final project of the year: The vocabulary story recap of 7th grade. Students have until May 27th to finish this project. I am looking for a really creative synthesis of all the vocabulary terms of the year. Best of luck!
We concluded class by having a discussion about why Solon started to move Greece towards a democracy.

Homework: Turn in all missing work and your vocab recap project is due on May 27th!

Handout: Description of the Vocabulary Recap Project
This is Your Final Vocabulary Project of the Year
This is Your Final Vocabulary Project of the Year cromagnuson@yahoo.com