Ancient Greece

Introduction

Ancient Greece

Scenario

When you see this symbol you need to get your work signed off by  your teacher. 

 

Task

Task One

First of all, you need to know where your going in order to help make your decision. Locate these cities to help you on your journey.

 

Here are the list of cities and mountains that you will need to locate using an atlas or map around the classroom

  • Athens
  • Sparta
  • Mt Olympus
  • Mt Parnassus
  • Crete

Here is a map of our country Aotearoa New Zealand. Can you locate 5 cities below on map?

  • Auckland 
  • Wellington 
  • Christchurch
  • Queenstown
  • Dunedin

Now that you have located the cities what is the capital city of Greece?

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What is the capital city of New Zealand?

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Task Two

You are holding the lightening bolt and can see that it belongs to someone called Zues. Who is Zues? You know that he is a God but you need to find out more. Read the information on Zues then skim read through the sentences to answer the following questions.

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/zeus.htm

True or False?

  • Zeus was a sky God. ____
  • When Zeus is angry he throws rocks at you. ____
  • Zeus probably was not worshipped in Greece before the Indo-European Greeks arrived. ____
  • Zeus is basically the same as other Indo-European sky gods like Saturn. ____
  • Zeus is the father of Hercules. ____
  • Zeus is also related to Indra, a Hindu sky god, the son of Dyeus Pita. ____
  • Zeus had many children. ____
  • If people were good Zeus would punish them. ____

Zues punishes people who are bad and rewards people who are good. Think of a time when you were good. What happened? Were you rewarded? 

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Task Three

In order to find your way around Ancient Greece you will need to know the alphabet symbols. 

This is a piece of papyrus with ancient Greek writing on it. When it was written down, no
gaps were put between words like we do today. This makes it hard for scholars to
translate sometimes. 

ALPHABET HERE!!!!!!!!!

The word ‘alphabet’ comes from the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.
Write them down here:
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How many letters are there in the Greek alphabet?  

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How many letters are there in our alphabet?

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Try and write your name in Greek here:

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Lots of words have survived from ancient Greek in the English we speak now. Here are
some of those words written in Greek. Write the letters of our alphabet underneath to
work them out. Watch out for Greek letters that are two letters in our alphabet.
ε χ ο                         δ ρ α μ α                                     κ ο σ μ ο ς 

_____                        __________                                ____________ 
ο λ υ μ π ο ς               ο ρ κ ε σ τ ρ α                                 σ κ ε ν ε 

________________                __________________                             __________

In a pair make up your own alphabet or code and write a secret message to each other.

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Teacher:_______________________

Task Four

Process