SNOW DAY, but the learning keeps going!

Enjoying your snow day? I am. Although we aren't in school you can still learn things, get away form the TV and video games.

• If I had seen you in class today we would have drawn a map of Greece, free hand, not fill in the blank outline map.


• Log in to the online textbook and locate the map of Ancient Greece.


• You can always search for a map of Ancient Greece on the internet.


• Draw an outline map of Greece and label the following locations: Athens, Sparta, Marathon, Olympia, Delphia, Peloponnesus, Crete, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, Macedonia and Asia Minor.


• Color the water blue


• Title the map


• Draw a compass rose

This assignment will be due on Wednesday, you can do it now or do it for homework on Tuesday night.

Extra Credit:

You can do both or choose 1. The more you do the more extra credit.

Research and Respond to the following question: Would you rather have grown up as an Athenian or a Spartan in Ancient Greece? Why? Remember to include the following-topic sentence, 2-3 examples and a closing statement.

Here are two articles I found, you may use others.

http://www.sikyon.com/sparta/agogi_eg.html and

http://greece.mrdonn.org/education.html

Create 5 Trading Cards for Greek Gods and Goddesses. Trading Cards describe achievements or 'stats' for a 'person'. Think of baseball cards. What traits or qualities does this god or goddess have? Be sure to include a picture.

You can use these websites or create your card from scratch.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/trading_cards/

http://www.bighugelabs.com/deck.php

http://tradingcardmaker.net/