Author: Kim Covert Genre: Expository Nonfiction

1. Author: Kim Covert Genre: Expository Nonfiction Big Question: How have ancient cultures influenced modern ones?

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6. Big Question: How have ancient cultures influenced modern ones?MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday

7. Vocabulary Words More Words to Know Vocabulary Words • architecture • democracy • empire • ideal • mythology • ethics • frescoes • acropolis • agora • temples

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9. Concept Vocabulary • acropolis – high fortress of an ancient Greek city • agora – marketplace of ancient Greece • temples – buildings used for the service or worship of a god or gods • (Next Slide)

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16. Vocabulary Words Test – Wednesday, April 9th • architecture – art and science of design for buildings • democracy – government that is ruled by majority • empire – a major, extensive political unit • ideal – perfect • mythology – traditional stories that explain natural events

17. Vocabulary Words • geophysics– laws governing the earth • democratic– treating people of all classes the same way • philosophy – set of beliefs • geology – the science that deals with the structure of the earth • monarch – king or queen • demographics – picture of human population • philanthropist – a person who likes to help other people

18. More Words to Know • ethics - the study of standards of right and wrong; the part of philosophy dealing with moral conduct, duty, and judgment • frescoes- pictures or designs created by painting with water colors on clean, fresh plaster • (next slide)

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20. Conjunctions • When they became adults, children brought their toys to the temple. • When is a subordinating conjunction because it introduces a subordinate clause in a complex sentence. Subordinate clauses are also called independent clauses.

21. Conjunctions • A conjunction is a word that is used to join words, phrases, or sentences. • Coordinating conjunctions such as and, but, and or are used to combine two or more subjects, predicates, or sentences to make compound subjects, predicates, or sentences.

22. Conjunctions • Chariot races and foot races were part of the games. • Athletes might become good at many different sports or focus on one sport. • I wanted to see the long jump, but I was too late.

23. Conjunctions • Subordinating conjunctions such as because, if, then, when, although, before, and after are used to link dependent clauses and independent clauses in complex sentences. • Before the games began, all wars stopped. She is a good runner because she practices.

24. ConjunctionsChoose the correct coordinating conjunction. • The Greeks built palaces (or, and) covered the walls with paintings. • and • The Iliad and The Odyssey are epic Greek poems, (or, but) historians disagree about their authors. • but

25. ConjunctionsChoose the correct coordinating conjunction. • Do you want to learn about Phoenicians art (but, or) shipbuilding? • or • Free male citizens of Athens could vote on laws (or, but) women and slaves could not. • but

26. ConjunctionsChoose the correct coordinating conjunction. • The Minoan king Minos was supposedly the son of Zeus, (and, or) his people built a huge palace to honor him. • and • Our class will read about Athens (but, or) Troy. • or

27. ConjunctionsChoose the correct coordinating conjunction. • Athens and Sparta were both powerful and wealthy, (but, or) they had different forms of government. • but • Our study included the Peloponnesian War (but, and) the Delian League. • and

28. ConjunctionsFind the conjunction in each sentence. Tell if it is a coordinating conjunction or a subordinating conjunction. • The Trojans accepted the wooden horse because they did not know Greek soldiers were hiding inside. • because, subordinating • Pericles was a military general and a leader of Athens. • and, coordinating

29. ConjunctionsFind the conjunction in each sentence. Tell if it is a coordinating conjunction or a subordinating conjunction. • When Alexander was twenty, he became king. • when, subordinating • Alexandria was an important place for learning and trade. • and, coordinating

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32. Conjunctions • A conjunction is a word that joins words, phrases, or sentences. • A coordinating conjunction is used to combine two or more subjects, predicates, or sentences. • A subordinating conjunction is used to link independent and dependent clauses in sentences.

33. Conjunctions • Use conjunctions to combine short related sentences to make your writing smoother and more readable. • Choppy: They learned Greek dances. They ate Greek foods. • Smoother: They learned Greek dances and ate Greek foods.

34. Conjunctions • Review something you have written to see if you can combine short, choppy sentences with conjunctions to make your writing smoother.

35. Conjunctions • Sometimes a semicolon is used instead of a coordinating conjunction to connect two related main clauses. • He likes Greek literature; he also enjoys Greek drama.

36. Point of View • Point of view is the perspective from which an author presents a text. The point of view determines how much information the reader will be given and in what way. A literary point of view is reflected in the choice of personal pronouns used in a text.

37. Point of View • First Person: Every day, we take part in activities invented by the ancient Greeks. • Second person: Every day, you take part in activities invented by the ancient Greeks. • Third person: Every day, they take part in activities invented by the ancient Greeks.

38. Time Line • A time line is a graph that shows events in the order in which they take place. • A time line looks like a ruler. It is a straight line with evenly spaced intervals marked along it. On a time line, each mark represents a date.

39. Time Line • The date span on a time line depends on the information covered. It may be one day or several hundred years and it can cover general or specific topics.

40. Time Line • Dates are shown on a time line in proportional distance to one another. The years 1900 and 2000 will be twice as far apart on a time line as the years 1900 and 1950.

41. Time Line • If a time line has to show events happening in two eras with nothing happening in the middle, you can break the time line. A gap in the line will show that a number of years has been omitted to save space.