1. Ancient Greece

2. A verb in past tense describes an action that was started and completed in the past. Many past-tense verbs end in –ed Examples: Last summer, my family visit Greece. (visited) We stay with relatives in Athens. On the first evening, my brother and I climb the Acropolis.

3. When a verb ends in a consonant followed by y, change the y to an I and add –ed (try/tried) When a single syllable verb ends in one vowel followed by one consonant (but not w or y), double the consonant and add –ed (trip/tripped) When a verb ends in an e, drop the e and add –ed (live/lived, believe/believed)

4. A verb in the future tense describes an action that will occur in the future. To form the future tense, add the helping verb will to the main verb: We will sail to the island of Crete tomorrow. Examples: Tomorrow afternoon, I start my project on Socrates. First, I go online for information. At six o’clock, my mom take me to the library.

5. The verb tense you use often depends on information in the sentence or paragraph. Look for context clues that tell you when to use the past, present, or future tenses.

6. Read the passage below and write the correct form of the verbs and whether they are: present, past, or future tense next to each word. Every year, my mom travel as part of her work. I hate it when she goes because my dad cook for me. Last year, mom use her frequent-flyer miles to take me with her to Greece. I love the food and the big hotel we stay in. Mom says she take me on another trip next year. Poor dad cook for himself again!

7. Logic- is the science of reasoning, which decides the truth of a statement by using a set of rules.

8. Urges- when something urges you to do something, it encourages you to perform that action.

9. Modern – Something that is modern is characteristic of the present time.

10. Ethics—are a system of moral beliefs and rules about what is right and wrong. Influenced—it has made a difference in your development and decisions. Pursuit—involves the actions you perform and the attempts you make to achieve it.

11. Promote—you contribute to its growth and help make it happen. Banned—when it is officially stated that something is not allowed to be done, shown, or used, it has been banned.

12. Time period from 8 th Century B.C. to ~600 A.D. Ancient Greece spanned over three continents, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Spain, Italy, Lebanon, and Israel and many other modern countries today!

13. Large and sprawling cities that were governed by themselves without a single centralized government A single city would command its outlying areas around it. Forms the identity of the people who live there People would claim they were from their particular City-State rather than claim they were “Greek”. Examples of Greek City-States Athens Sparta Thebes

14. Ancient Greece is credited as to providing the world with: Greek Alphabet (from where many modern languages originated) Democracy Theatre Tragedy, Comedy, and Drama Modern Mathematics Geometry, Algebra, Calculus Scientific Theory Olympic Games