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Ancient Greece: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Ancient Greece Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Ancient Greece - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Ancient Greece - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook includes:
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Ancient Greece - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Pericles & Alexander: Reading Informational Text GO1
Ancient Greece Geography: Reading Informational Text
Greek Prefixes and Suffixes: Vocabulary G
History of Ancient Greece: Chronological Events GO12
Trojan War: Reading Informational Text
Athenian vs. U. S. Democracy: Reading Informational Text GO1
Greek Philosophers: Reading Informational Text
Greek Philosopher Quotes: Summarizing Information G
Ancient Greece: Important Elements of Ancient Greece GO4
Athens vs. Sparta: Reading Informational Text GO1
Ancient vs. Modern Olympic Games:Reading Informational Text G
Greek Mythology: Reading Informational Text
Athenian Agora: Graphical Data Analysis
Greek vs. Modern Architecture: Comparison of Primary Sources G
Speeches of Pericles & Lincoln: Comparison of Primary Sources G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)