After picking up your spiral, complete on your warm up pages in your spiral…Warm Up  What are the 3 important factors to creating a settlement?  Prediction on where you believe people decided to settle in Ancient Greek times? Make sure to support your answer.

Spiral Set Up  Title page 68: Unit 5: Greece  Write the Essential Question under the title:  Essential Question: Students will be able to analyze and Discuss the impact of Greece and its influence on today’s world. Take the green highlighter and highlight the top of page 68

Spiral Set Up  Title page 67 Key Vocab  Write the following words down:  Peninsula  Isolated Communities  Trade  Settlement  Shelter  Colonist  Merchant  City States  Monarch  Aristocrat  Oligarch  Tyrant  Democracy  Citizen  Assembly

Geography and Settle of Greece

Learning Target  Student will be able to read and interpret maps in order to learn about key physical features of ancient Greece.  The purpose of this is to understand the unique ways in which those features affected not only the interaction between ancient Greek communities, but also the interaction between the ancient Greeks and people from other cultures.  This means that through a Visual Discovery activity, students examine and analyze thematic maps to learn about the physical geography of ancient Greece and how it influenced the development of Greek civilization.

Key Vocabulary  Peninsula  Aegean Sea  Isolated Communities  Trade  Settlement  Shelter  Colonist  Merchant

Picture Analysis  Looking at the image on page 246  Describe the Geographical features you notice in this picture.  What are Advantages/Disadvantages of living here??

Recreating the Mainland Activity

Directions  Re-create the area of mainland Greece.  create a 6-by-8-foot rectangle on the floor that it represents the area of mainland Greece.  Introduce the physical geography of Greece  Greece does not have any major rivers, but is surrounded on three sides by seas.  The bottom and the sides of the rectangle simulate the coastline of Greece, look were the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Ionian seas are located

Discussion How did the physical geography affect where ancient Greeks settled?

Directions  Settling Greece.  12 students are to settle Greece by standing anywhere they want inside the rectangle  Why did you settle in this particular area? Do you have enough space?

What physical feature covers most of the land? What effect will the mountains have on settlement

Directions  The mountains and settlers moving.  Create mountains by placing two chairs in the center of the top third of the rectangle. Announce that these mountains make this area unsuitable for settlement.  Settlers must move to a more suitable area  Settlers, why did you move to this particular location?

What physical feature covers most of the land? What effect will the mountains have on settlement

Directions  The mountains and settlers moving.  Create mountains by placing two chairs in the rectangle. Announce that these mountains make this area unsuitable for settlement.  Settlers must move to a more suitable area  Settlers, why did you move to this particular location?

What physical feature covers most of the land? What effect will the mountains have on settlement

Directions  The mountains and settlers moving.  Create mountains by placing two chairs in the rectangle. Announce that these mountains make this area unsuitable for settlement.  Settlers must move to a more suitable area  Settlers, why did you move to this particular location?

Directions  Simulating the islands and having settlers move.  Reexamine the map  What other physical features do you see on the map?  About how many islands do you think there are?  Create islands by placing four or five pieces of scrap paper on the floor, near the bottom and sides of the rectangle.  Would any of the settlers want the option of moving to these islands?  Settlers, why did you choose to move or to stay where you are?

Request/ Respondent Cards

Debrief- Answer the following questions in complete sentences on page 71 What are the advantages of the physical geography of Greece? What are the disadvantages? In what ways does the physical geography create challenges for human settlement? How might people deal with these challenges?

Geography Challenge

Remember…  Greece has a unique geography that influenced where people settled and how they lived. For example, the mountainous land and the lack of major rivers made farming difficult.

Takeaway  In a CER paragraph, how did geography influence settlement and way of life in Ancient Greece?