04 Stirling Bridge, Herodotus Jan 00

1-13 Lesson #24      Greece:  Trade and Leisure

04 Stirling Bridge, Herodotus Jan 00

1-17T Lesson #25      Greece:  Homer and Mythology Opportunity #13

Historians, Intro. pp. 1-23; 05 Stirling Bridge, Homer

1-20 Lesson #26      Greece:  Art and Architecture

Historians, Heroditus pp. 27-105

1-27 Lesson #27      Greece:  Oratory

Historians, Heroditus pp. 106-215                 Opportunity #14

1-31T Lesson #28      Greece:  Theater

Historians, Thucydides pp. 217-298               Opportunity #15

2-3 Lesson #29      Greece:  Philosophy Recitation due

Historians, Thucydides pp. 298-383               Opportunity #16

2-10 Lesson #30      The Achaemenids & Persia Project –Poetry/Masque due

2-14T Lesson #31      The Mongols:  Marauders of the East

2-17 Lesson #32      The Seafaring Phoenicians Opportunity #17

2-27T Lesson #33      The Ferocious Celts Opportunity #18

3-2 Lesson #34      Mysterious Indus Valley Culture Opportunity #19

3-6T Lesson #35      The Origins of Ancient Japanese Culture

3-9 Lesson #36      Meso American Antiquity Opportunity #20

3-20T Lesson #37      China in Antiquity

3-23 Lesson #38      The Legacy of Alexander Opportunity #21

3-30 Lesson #39      Carthage and the Punic Wars Research Paper due

4-3T Lesson #40      The Legacy of Rome

4-5*TH Lesson #41    Rome:  Caesar and Empire Opportunity #22

4-10T Lesson #42      Rome:  Gaius Octavius Julius Opportunity #23

4-13 Lesson #43      Rome:  The Reign of the Imperial Caesars

Opportunity #24

4-17T Lesson #44      Rome:  Pax Romana

4-20 Lesson #45      Rome:  The Conversion of the Empire

Opportunity #25

4-27 Lesson #46      Magna Africana Antiquitas

Anthology of Ancient Literature, Wilbur, Mahand, Grant

5-1T Lesson #47      Absorbing the Barbarians

Anthology of Ancient Literature, Wilbur, Mahand, Grant

5-4 Lesson #48      The Legacy of Augustine

Anthology of Ancient Literature, Wilbur, et.alOpportunity #26

5-11 Final Exam Review                                     40-Hour Project Presentations

5-15 or 5-17 Final Exam

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.