Process

Stage 1: Research Report> Each member of your team will write a research report that describes ESPRAT+G in ancient Greece and Rome. In other words, what would doing business, following daily customs/life, running the government, practicing religion, experiencing the arts and using technology look like both in Greek city states and ancient Rome? Your report will also include a timeline of major historical events.

• Each member of the team creates a Mindmeister mind map entitled “8Hums-your name-Research Report”. Share it with your teacher. Create two nodes on opposite sides. Name one “Greece” and the other “Rome”.

• Use the links provided in the Resources page to answer all the questions listed below in Task B.

• Create a node for each of the questions and for any new questions that you have during your research.

• Use the note tool to record your answers and research notes. Use the Web link tool to cite each Web site you use in note taking. Include at the start of each note all the information you will need to cite it in your bibliography. Review how to cite your sources.

Task A: ESPRAT Review> Review what each component of ESPRAT is. Continue to build your understanding. Write a blog post entitled “ESPRAT & My Passport Country” where you answer the following questions.

•What are the components (parts) of culture? (From your notes and own research.)

•Interview your parents to ask them and record their answers to the following questions dealing with what ESPRAT+G and your “passport” country. The answers to these questions need to be full and complete! You will need at least 20 minutes of good, quality interviewing time.

1. What is the Economic (business) system?

2. What does the Social system (daily life, classes, customs, etc.) look like?

3. What is the Political (government) system? Who has the power?

4. What are the Religions? Describe them in detail.

5. What are the various Arts (especially those your nation is known for)?

6. What are various Technologies that are a part of life in your country?

7. How does Geography affect ESPRAT in your home country? Go into rich details breaking down each component of ESPRAT.

Task B: Greece & Rome Research> Answer the following questions in your mind map as you research both ancient Greece and Rome. Use the library, our online databases and the Resource page links and your textbook. Start with Greece then move on to Rome. These questions are just to get you started. Use the guiding questions in the ESPRAT+G site to help in your research. You will use your research to write a report for Ms. Drakos.

|Economics|

•What were the various ways people made a living? Research many examples.

•How were there different classes of people depending upon what type of jobs they had?

|Social System|

•What did daily life look like? What would you see if you walked the streets of Athens, Sparta, Thebes, etc. and Rome? Describe the scenes.

•Knowing the components of culture, describe what each looked like in ancient Greece and Rome.

•How were the people organized into groups?

•What was the class system? Describe each of the classes.

|Political|

•Who was in charge and how do they get to be in charge?

•What laws (rules) did people have to follow?

•Were the laws fair and do they treat people equally?

•What were the types of governments in the various Greek city-states? Describe each of them as to who had most of the power, who could vote, effects upon other components of ESPRAT, etc.

•What were the types of government Rome had on its way to becoming an empire? Describe each of them as to had most of the power, who could vote, effects upon other components of ESPRAT, etc.

|Religion|

•What were the people’s beliefs about god, the soul, life and death?

•How were these ideas passed down to future generations?

•What did people do to practice their religion?

|Arts|

•How did the people express their creativity?

•What were the products that show people’s creativity?

•What was the artwork like in this society?

•What sports/games did people enjoy?

•How did people of various classes dress?

|Technology|

•What forms of tools did people have to do their work?

•What tools did they use from other societies?

•Which of their tools were adopted by other societies?

•How did inventions in transportation, communication, agriculture, industry, education, and medicine improve the quality of life?

|Geography|

•How did the geography affect each component of ESPRAT in the society?

Remember to also use the comparison of Greece and Roman Web resource sites for all of your research. Add questions to your mind map that you come up with during your research. Answer them using the Note tool in Mindmeister.

Research Check In>

1) Your teacher will be reviewing your progress by checking your mind maps. Comments will be listed in your mind maps and you will have a consultation with your teacher to support your efforts.

2) Now that everyone has completed their research, you will work with a partner to prepare to teach a lesson of your answers to some of the research questions. You will draw from a hat a set of question numbers (e.g., 1-5, 6-10, etc.) that you and a partner will design your lesson around. Your classmates will be taking notes to improve their answers for the questions each team presents. The audience also will share their insights to assist everyone to improve their understanding.

Essential Questions Podcast>

Your team is to create one mind map entitled “8hums-EQs-team name”. Share it with each other and your teacher. As you go through your research, you are to add your ideas and possible answers to the essential questions listed below.

Once you complete your research, the next step is to sit down together and discuss what you have on your mind map. Work together to fully answer each question. You are to then record a discussion where you talk with each other about your answers. Each team member’s ideas and voice should come through for each question.

You are to include the following in your podcast:

• Intro music

• Clear introduction of your team name and members

• Clear statement of each essential question before you start answering it

• Full discussion and answer for each question

• Each team member is to lead out on at least one question

• Closing music

Essential Questions:

• What do governments do?

• Which people (demos) really rule?

• What does it mean to be a “civilization”?

Topic Questions:

• How did democracy get its start?

*Your teacher will show you how to use the timeline creation Web site called xTimeline.

Task D: Timeline> Go to xTimeline and create an account. For your screen name use “HISTORYyour firstname & first letter last name”. An example would be “HISTORYdavidc”. Use your own search efforts documented in your mind maps to build one timeline of main historical events for ancient Greece (1150 BC - 323 BC) named “8hums-Greece-your name” and a second timeline for Rome (500 BC - 500 AD) named “8hums-Rome-your name”. Always remember to write using your own words. This timeline will help organize your research for your report.

*Your teacher and librarian will share lessons on how to write a research report and how to peer edit.

Task E: Write your research report for Ms. Drakos focusing on a thesis statement describing some aspects of what Greece and Roman societies looked like using the ESPRAT+G categories of study. Use the research report rubric attached at the bottom of the page to guide your writing effort. Start the process by downloading the Greece & Rome outline document attached at the bottom of the page to help you with your on outline. Follow the directions to write your outline.

The second step is to create a Google Document entitled “8hums-yourname-report”. Share it with your peer editing partner and your teacher. You are to use the Six Traits to help guide your writing. Use an online self-editing checklist to guide your efforts. Partners will help by peer editing each other’s report. Download the Peer Editing Guidelines document attached at the bottom of the page, copy and paste it into your partner’s Google Document. Use it to edit your partner’s research report.

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Stage 2: Multimedia Presentation> Each member of your team will create a slide show presentation based upon his/her research report. In other words, you are to use images and your voiceover to communicate and support the thesis from your research report.

1) Create a Google Doc entitled “8hums- your name- storyboard”. Share it with your teacher.

2) Plan what each slide or scene will look like and what research will be connected to it. You will use the storyboard to write you narration for each image.

3) Create your multimedia presentation. Use the multimedia rubric attached at the bottom of the page to guide your effort.

4) Remember to save the Web site links for each of your images to go into the bibliography of your video slide show.

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Stage 3: Model of Drakanos>

The teams work together to prepare a model proposal for Ms. Drakos that describes what they think a present day city state modeled on ancient Greece and Rome should look like and where it should be in present day Libya. In other words, what would doing business, following daily customs/life, running the government, practicing religion, experiencing the arts and using technology look like in modern day Drakanos?

1) The team must first propose what form their presentation will take that describes their model of Drakanos. Will it be a Keynote or PowerPoint, a play, a model, video, mind map, etc? Download the Presentation Proposal form (attached at the bottom of the page), complete it and share it with your teacher. One key role in your presentation will be the rubric creator.

2) The team leader creates a Mindmeister mind map entitled “8hums- team name- Drakanos model”. Use this mind map to begin brainstorming what each ESPRAT + G aspect of modern day Drakanos will look like.

3) Libya Geography: Your team will also need to learn more about the geography of Libya. You will need to guide Ms. Drakos in her land purchase to find a place that closely resembles the geography of Rome and the Greek city-states.

4) After getting approval for your presentation format, continue using your mind map to develop and storyboard what each component of ESPRAT+ G will look like in modern day Drakanos. You are to give each team member one component of ESPRAT+ G to develop for your model. Each team member develops his/her ideas individually and then adds them to the team mind map. Everyone can then work together to further develop the ideas.

5) Create your model and practice presenting it using the format you put forth in your presentation proposal form.

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