Today's Frame - Roman Empire

What conditions led to the dramatic rise and fall of the Roman Empire?  What are the Roman Empire's greatest legacies?

Today's Frame - The Roman Republic

During the late Hellenistic period, how did Rome emerge as the dominant power in the Mediterranean?

Today's Frame - Art & Architecture

How does the art and architecture of Classical and Hellenistic Greece reflect the values and ideas of these civilizations?

Greek Art & Architecture Activity handout (Click here)

Art & Architecture Google Folder (Click here)

Today's Frame- Hellenism

How was Hellenism a cultural and political force in ancient Greece, Egypt, and central Asia?

Today's Frame- Classical Greece

"Classical Greece", "Golden Age Greece", "Periclean Athens"...  these are ways to describe the ascendance of Greek civilization during the 5th century BCE.

• What conditions enabled Athens to rise above other city-states and become a center of cultural achievement? (think art, architecture, philosophy, politics, theater, math, engineering, etc.)

• How was war a defining factor for Greek civilization, shaping it immeasurably by uniting and fracturing Greek city-states and cultivating a fierce sense of competition, arete, and ultimately, hubris?

Today's Frame- Origins of Greece

How did geography affect the development of ancient Greek civilization?

Today's Activity: Adapted from a "mini" DBQ, you will read and annotate all the documents in your packet. You must write a short thesis statement that addresses the prompt and share that as a stand-alone GoogleDoc to your Hapara folder (due tomorrow).

Today's Frame- Persia

How and why did the Persians (Achaemenids) create the world’s first multilingual, multiethnic, multireligious, and multilingual empire?

Unit 3... But First...

A day to take some time away from curriculum to discuss current events.