Wednesday, June 1, 2011

2017: The Battles of Marathon and Thermopylae

AIM: SWBAT describe the events of the Battles of Marathon and Thermopylae during the Greek-Persian Wars by completing selected activities and the Exit Slip with at least 80% accuracy.

Today we will begin learning more about the Greek-Persian wars, with the battles of Marathon and Thermopylae.  Today we will be learning how to interact with current event articles..

Task 1: You will be learning about the Battles of Marathon and Thermopylae during the Greek-Persian wars.  If you have trouble seeing, you can follow along with the presentation here.

Task 3:  Complete this review of your reading.

Task 4: Choose Strip GeneratorGoAnimate, or StoryJumper to create a summary of the events of the Ionian Revolt.

Today you will also be practicing current event skills using electronic copies of the Los Angeles Times newspaper.

Task 1:  Go to the Los Angeles Times website.  Mr. Perry will give you the login and password information.  You will read two articles:
  1. The article title "Irvine Cheerleader Mourned" on page AA1.
  2. Any article of your choosing, from any section.
Once you have chosen your articles, complete the "Current Events Article Summary" you were given.

Task 2:  Complete this question review of the articles you read today.

Task 3:  Prepare to share the information from your articles with your teammates.





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