Ancient Greece
VOCABULARY
Set up your notebook for vocabulary.
Start a new page.
Add your title: Ancient Greece vocabulary
Create 2 columns.
Your first word is citizen.
Citizen:
Most of us are citizens of the United
States. What does citizen mean?
This is a Wordle word cloud made
from this series of definitions – What
key characteristics and elements of
citizenship do you see?
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Characteristics of a good citizen.
Citizen
When you are finished, think about the wordle and the movie clip. Define citizen in your
notebook.
Look at the two maps below. Ancient Mesopotamia
and Ancient Greece have some things in common.
What do they have in common?
On the left is an example of one of these in
Mesopotamia, on the right is Athens which is Greece’s
equivalent. What is this called?
class zone animated map Use this site to explore specific places in Ancient Greece.
POLIS is the Greek
word for city-state.
Add polis to your
vocab list.
Can you come up with
five words that have
polis in them and are
related to the root
word? Use an online
dictionary to help you.
Hint:
POLISH does not work.
Acropolis: go here to watch a video clip
Ancient Greece Vocabulary
Add acropolis to your vocab list and define acropolis.
Polis:
Citizen:
Acropolis:
Check your definitions with the people sitting near you. Are they
similar?