1. Tuesday, January 28 th Bell Work: Please pick up the reading packet from the front table. You will also need to take out a highlighter and pen. On your desk you will find a notecard with a number and letter. The letter represents your group, the number your assigned reading. Read your designated section of the handout, highlighting unfamiliar words/concepts and underlining the most important details in each paragraph. Be prepared to summarize your section for your group. #1 – Mediterranean Civilizations (pg. 85) up to Economic Characteristics (pg. 77) #2 – Economic Characteristics (pg. 77) up to The Rise of Persia (pg. 82) #3 – The Rise of Persia (pg. 82) up to end of packet (including the front page of the packet)

2. Jigsaw Directions: Take 5 minutes to discuss each of your sections of the reading with your group. Make sure to explain the key concepts and main details with your group members. Now, on the back of your notecards, independently answer the following prompt: Using our GRAPES categories, explain three ways that the Greeks and Persians were more complex than the societies the came before them.

3. Examples: Geography  Royal Road in Persia; polis development in Greece (with colonies) Religion  Zoroastrianism in Persia; Philosophy in Greece Achievements  Secularism and Natural Law; Drama; Architecture and sculpture Politics  Satraps in Persia; Democracy and Delian League in Greece Economics  Colonization; Expansive Trade Networks Social Characteristics  Spartan System (Both Gender and Class Distinctions)

4. Daily Agenda: Bell Work: Reading Jigsaw WOD  demagogue Lecture: Transitional Empires Summarizer Research Project: World Belief Systems Essential Question: What makes a civilization Classical? Homework: Read Chapter 10 and complete Guided Reading worksheet (due Thursday)

5. Demagogue – a leader who becomes popular by appealing to the emotions and prejudices of the people Read aloudTuesday, January 28, 2014 - Block 1 Adolf Hitler is often cited as the epitome of a DEMAGOGUE. Hitler rose to power by using impassioned speeches that appealed to the ethnic and nationalistic prejudices of the German people. Hitler exploited, embittered, and misled WWI veterans by blaming their plight on minorities and other convenient scapegoats. Unfortunately, Americans have not been immune to the impassioned pleas of DEMAGOGUES. During the 1950s Senator Joseph McCarthy falsely alleged that Communist sympathizers had infiltrated the State Department. As McCarthy’s DEMAGOGIC rhetoric grew bolder, he denounced General George Marshall, former Army Chief of Staff and ex-Secretary of State, calling him “part of a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man.” Click on McCarthy to hear him speak Pronunciation

6. How does this illustrate demagoguery?

7. Transitional Empires: Not Foundational… Not Classical.. What are they?

8. The Phoenicians Key Concepts: Canaanites Confederation of City-States – Trade based – Colonies Culture – Alphabet – Linear B – Trade Products – Purple Dye, Cedar – Religion (Tophets) – Senate and Judges To what extent were the complexities of Phoenician civilization driven by their economic needs?

9. The Persians Key Concepts: Persian = Medes + Achaemenids Satraps Persian Kingship Paradayadam Administration Royal Road Zoroastrianism How did the Persian Empire represent the same challenges of all of the other transitional empires? (Issues of beliefs, control, and economics)

10. Other Historical Contributors: The Hittites: Between 1900 and 1200 BCE, the Hittites dominated the Fertile Crescent due to their iron metallurgy and war chariots The Lydians: A small empire in Anatolia (Turkey), the Lydians were credited as the first to use coined money (around 600 BCE)

11. Summarizer: Play rock, paper, scissors with your partner to determine who will answer the question. (Best 2 out of 3) 1.How did the Hebrews monotheistic beliefs and pastoral lifestyle create the need for more complex institutions? 2.How were these transitional peoples different from the River Valley Civilizations that pre-dated them? 3.What factors necessitate the development of more complex societies? 4.In the context of what you have read and we’ve discussed, did complexity always equate to improvement?

12. World Belief Systems Project: Over the course of this unit you will be researching major world belief systems and demonstrating your understanding of them in a variety of manners. Your final product will be due on Test Day (Feb. 7 th ) and will count the same as two essay grades. Your project will include the following: A comparative reference chart and application activities for each belief system (see handout for details). You will be granted a limited amount of class time each day to work on your research, though you will likely need to work outside of class to complete the project.