PERICLES & THE GOLDEN AGE
Greece – Week 5
Week of January 30- February3, 2012
Day 1 – Read Portable Greek Historian, pp. 265-273.
The Funeral Oration of Pericles.
Choose one of the following to research and write a 2-page paper about: Polyclitus, Democritus, Phides, Hippocrates, Thales, Pythagoras, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschlys, Aristophanes, Archimedes, or Erastosthenes.
Day 2 – Read Streams of Civilizations, pp. 126-131.
Find a copy of “Antigone” on the internet or public library and read it. It was written by the playwright Sophocles. It follows “Oedipus” and “Oedipus at Cologne.” If you are ambitious, read those as well.
Day 3 - Read Ten Famous Lives, ch. 2 Pericles, OR Famous Men of Greece, ch. XVII – Pericles.
Day 4 – List advances made in art, architecture, politics, religion, science, math, drama, philosophy, and medicine.
RECITATION – Pericles’ Funeral Oration.
“The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost; when we learned the lessons of history.” –Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
This week in history – “Cleopatra’s Needles,” a stone obelisk from Egypt arrived in London and was floated up the Thames River to its resting place opposite the house of Parliament. It was met by cheering crowds and fired salutes despite its inordinate cost to taxpayers.
PERSIAN WARS
Greece – Week 4
Week of January 23-27, 2012
Day 1 – Read Children’s Homer, pp. 188-197; Portable Greek Historian, pp. 81-100 (1st half of “After the battle of Marathon”). Ten Famous Lives, ch. 1, Themosticles. Research Herodotus. Write a 1-page report on him.
Day 2 – Read Children’s Homer, pp. 198-214; Portable Greek Historian, pp. 100 -118; Streams of Civilization, pp. 122-124.
What is the origin of the 26.2 mile “marathon?”
Day 3 – Read Children’s Homer, pp. 214-227; Portable Greek Historian, pp. 119-138.
Day 4 – Read Children’s Homer, pp. 228-243; Portable Greek Historian, pp. 139-157.
RECITATION – Pericles’ Funeral Oration.
DEMOCRACY
Greece – Week 3
Week of January 16-20, 2012
Day 1 – Read Children’s Homer, pp. 123-140; Streams of Civilization, pp. 116-119.
Define city-state, oligarchy, democracy, tyranny, and constitutional monarchy.
Day 2 – Read Children’s Homer, pp. 140-152; Famous Men of Greece, ch.XI, Draco & Solon.
Day 3 - Read Children’s Homer, pp. 152-169; Famous men of Greece, ch. XII, Cleisthenes.
What is Cleisthenes best known for?
Day 4 – Read Children’s Homer, pp. 170-188.
Recitation – Pericles’ Funeral Oration.
ATHENS & SPARTA
Greece – Week 2
Week of January 9-13, 2012
Day 1 - Children’s Homer, pp. 57-69; Streams of Civilization, pp. 116-121.
Read Paul’s sermon to the Greeks on Mars Hill – Acts 17.
Day 2 - Children’s Homer, pp. 69-89.
The Greek word for city state was “polis.” Find a few derivatives of this Greek word. Define “spartan.”
Day 3 - Children’s Homer, pp. 89-105; Famous Men of Greece, ch. X, Lycurgus, 800 B.C..
In Sparta, who had the ultimate authority? Who/what were people expected to serve? What personal qualities did they revere? Was human life precious? Was there individual freedom?
Day 4 – Children’s Homer, pp. 105-122.
Research the beginning of the Olympics. (See Streams, p. 119)
Write a 1-page paper about your findings.
RECITATION – Pericles’ Funeral Oration.
TROJAN WAR, APPROX. 1193 B.C.
Greece – Week 1
Week of January 2-6, 2012
Day 1 - Children’s Homer, pp. 1-15; Portable Greek Historian, pp. 71-74.
Research Heinrich Schlieman. Prepare a 2-page report on him, and turn it in on Friday. Was the Trojan War real or legend?
Day 2 - Children’s Homer, pp. 15-27; Portable Greek Historian, pp. 74-79.
Who was Homer? Look him up in the encyclopedia or online.
Day 3 - Read Children’s Homer, pp. 28-42; Streams of Civilization, pp. 64- 67.
Day 4 – Read Children’s Homer, pp. 42-57; Streams of Civilization, pp. 87- 89.
RECITATION – Pericles’ Funeral Oration.
This day in history - 18 A.D. The Roman poet Ovid died in exile on January 2, one year to the day after his friend Roman historian Livy died.
JEWS RETURN TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE (EZRA) & WALL (NEHEMIAH); WHILE STILL IN CAPTIVITY UNDER PERSIAN KINGS
Israel - Week 6
Week of December 5-9, 2011
Recitation due Friday! Take home opportunity given out Friday, due Dec. 16th!
Day 1 - Read Ezra ch. 1-4; A House For My Name, pp. 215-222; A Biblical Antiquity (handout), pp. 44-52.
Day 2 - Read Ezra, ch. 5 & 6; Nehemiah, ch. 1 & 2; A House For My Name, pp. 225-229.
Day 3 - Read Nehemiah, ch. 3-7; A House For My Name, pp. 229-239; Esther, ch. 1-5.
Day 4 -Read Nehemiah, ch. 8-13; Esther, ch. 6-10.
STUDY FOR TEST
RECITATION - “The Destruction of Sennacherib,” by Lord Byron, & Hezekiah’s Prayer – 2 Kings 19:15-20.
Recommended Reading - The King’s Cupbearer.
This week in history – 43 B.C. Roman statesman & author Cicero was murdered Dec. 7th.
Merry Christmas!
ISRAEL CONQUERED BY ASSYRIA; JUDAH CARRIED INTO CAPTIVITY BY BABYLON –
Nation of Israel, Week 5
Week of November 28-December 2, 2011
Day 1 - Destruction of Israel – 2 Kings 17; A House For My Name, pp. 189-196; Hittite Warrior, ch. 18 & 19; Streams of Civilization, pp. 96-97.
Read Nahum 1:8. Do you know what happened to Nineveh?
Day 2 - Judah Carried into Captivity by Babylon – 2 Kings 25; A House For My Name, pp. 196-201; Hittite Warrior, ch. 20 & 21; Streams of Civilization, pp. 100-103.
See if you can find a description of The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Then find a list of the other Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Day 3 – Daniel, ch. 1-3; A House For My Name, pp. 201-208; Hittite Warrior, ch. 22, 23 & 24.
Judah was carried into captivity in three stages:
1) Daniel & the cream of the crop in 605 B.C.;
2) Ezekiel & others in 597 B.C.; and
3) Jerusalem destroyed 586 B.C.
Day 4 - Daniel, ch. 4-6; A House For My Name, 209-212; Hittite Warrior, ch. 25-28; Streams of Civilization, pp. 103-106.
Look up Jeremiah 27:8 & 25:9.
Babylon falls in 539 to King Darius of the Medes & Persians.
RECITATION – “The Destruction of Sennacherib,” by Lord Byron, & Hezekiah’s Prayer – 2 Kings 19:15 – 20.
