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The Ancient World

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Middle School Program Goals

• Teach students to think like historians.

• Inspire students with memorable classroom activities.

• Help teachers meet state and national standards.

• Develop critical readers and skilled writers.

• Make social studies an enjoyable and memorable class.

• Build students’ social studies skills.

Lesson: Ancient Sumer

Students work in pairs in a Social Studies Skill Builder activity to learn about the characteristics of civilization and analyze artifacts to

determine how each characteristic was exhibited in ancient Sumer.

Lesson: The Rise of Democracy

In an Experiential Exercise, students use the principles of monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy to select and play music for the class, as a way to examine the various forms of government in ancient Greece that led to the development of democracy.

The Ancient World Program Components

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