1. Warm Up
1. What is a polis?
2. How did a City-State prevent Greece from being one united country?
3. Who was considered a citizen in Greece City-States?

2. Quote of the Day!!!

3. Objective:
Students will be able to understand the types of government in Greek City-States.

4. Government
As a class we will create a list of some different types of government a country can have:
A_____________ is a form of government where citizens choose and replace the government through free and fair elections. There is active participation from the citizens in politics and civic life.
A______________ is a form of government where political authority is monopolized by a single person or political entity, and exercised through various mechanisms to ensure the entity's power remains strong
A ______________ is a form of government that has a single person known as a monarch at its head. Monarchs use titles as king, queen, emperor, or empress. Monarchs were once common throughout the world, but now they are rare.
A ___________is a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. Royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, religious or military control could distinguish these people.
democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, oligarchy

5. Infer why farmers would resent the nobles. (Turn and talk)
As Greek city-states grew, wealthy nobles seized power of the city-states, and tensions rose between them and the owners of small farms
Infer why farmers would resent the nobles.
(Turn and talk)
*Objective-Students will be able to understand the types of government in Greek City-States.

6. Farm owners would usually borrow money from the nobles to buy land
Farm owners would usually borrow money from the nobles to buy land. What would happen if farmers couldn’t repay their debt??? (Turn and talk) If farmers couldn't’t repay their debt, their land would be taken, they would have to sell themselves into slavery.
*Objective-Students will be able to understand the types of government in Greek City-States.

7. They didn't’t have a role in the polis because they weren’t citizens.
Small farmers, merchants, and artisans called for reform and for a greater voice in the government.
Because these people didn’t own land- why didn’t they have a role in the polis?
They didn't’t have a role in the polis because they weren’t citizens.
*Objective-Students will be able to understand the types of government in Greek City-States.

8. Tyrants- Someone who seizes power and rules with total authority Tyrants overthrew the Greek nobles in 600 B.C.
*Objective-Students will be able to understand the types of government in Greek City-States.

9. Tyrants in Ancient Greek Reading
We will read a passage from the textbook detailing tyrants in Ancient Greece. I will start reading the first paragraph, then we will popcorn read until the passage is finished.
*Objective-Students will be able to understand the types of government in Greek City-States.

10. Independent Thinking Question
Why did the common people eventually turn on the tyrants?
*Objective-Students will be able to understand the types of government in Greek City-States.

11. Group Work
Choose an Oligarchy or a Democracy. Explain why you think this is the type of government that should be used to rule a Greek city-state.
*Objective-Students will be able to understand the types of government in Greek City-States.

12. Homework Summarize today’s lesson in a 3-5 sentence paragraph.
*Objective-Students will be able to understand the types of government in Greek City-States.