1. Warm Ups
In Athens each individual is interested not only in his own affairs, but in affairs of state as well…. we do not say that a man who has no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business, we say he has no business, here at all.” Pericles c. 450 B.C.
What can we infer from the statement by Pericles? (select the best answer)
Citizens were not punished for missing assembly meetings
Participation in the assembly was expected and encouraged
Citizens were marked by slaves if they were late to the assembly

2. Chapter 8 Ancient Greece
Mr. Hollingsworth’s World History
November 8, 2017
Section 3 Myths Explain the World

3. Alabama Course of Study Standards
3. Compare the development of early world religions and philosophies and their key tenets.
•  Identifying cultural contributions of early world religions and philosophies
4. Identify cultural contributions of Classical Greece, including politics, intellectual life, arts, literature, architecture, and science.

4. Learning Targets
I will be able to use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I will be able to analyze the impact of Greek democracy on the ancient and modern world.
I will be able to identify the important gods from Greek mythology and categorize the events they influenced in ancient mythology

5. Warm Ups
In Athens each individual is interested not only in his own affairs, but in affairs of state as well…. we do not say that a man who has no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business, we say he has no business, here at all.” Pericles c. 450 B.C.
What can we infer from the statement by Pericles? (select the best answer)
Citizens were not punished for missing assembly meetings
Participation in the assembly was expected and encouraged
Citizens were marked by slaves if they were late to the assembly

6. Reading Check
How did the Greeks use myths to explain the world around them?
To explain natural events like volcanic eruptions

7. Myths explain the world
Groups assigned a section and provided materials
Create a storyboard or cartoon that explains the main idea of the sections
Groups will present their final product to the class

8. Heroes and Mythology Heroes real and myth Each polis had a hero
Most famous Hercules

9. Key Terms Greek word for a city state
Polis
A high hill where Greeks constructed a fortress
Acropolis
An age marked by great achievements
Classical age

10. Key Terms A form of government in which people rule themselves
Democracy
Rich landowners
Aristocrats
A government where only a few people have power
Oligarchy

11. Key Terms People who had the right to participate in government
Citizens
Ruler who held power through the use of force
Tyrant
The father of democracy
Cleisthenes

12. Key Terms Famous female lyric poet Sappho
Author of the Illiad and Odyssey
Homer
He was a famous story teller using fables
Aesop

13. Key Terms To have an effect on Influence Person who makes a prediction
Oracle

14. Learning Targets
I will be able to use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I will be able to analyze the impact of Greek democracy on the ancient and modern world.
I will be able to identify the important gods from Greek mythology and categorize the events they influenced in ancient mythology

15. Questions