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Reading Boot Camp 6-8th
Grade: 20 Minutes Mini Lesson
Reading Fluency Goal 160 CWPM
Close Reading and Socratic Seminar
Task: Rank the 3 most important ideas in the passage.
What is your hypothesis for the
decline of Mycenaean culture? Write a thesis statement expressing a
claim and counterclaim.
Mentor Text: Mycenaean Greece
The Proto-Greeks are assumed
to have arrived in the Greek peninsula during the late 3rd to early
2nd millennium BC. The migration of the Ionians and Aeolians resulted
in Mycenaean Greece by the 16th century BC. The transition
from pre-Greek to Greek culture appears to have been
rather gradual. Some archaeologists have pointed to
evidence that there was a significant
amount of continuity of prehistoric economic,
architectural, and social structures, suggesting that the transition
between the Neolithic, Helladic and early Greek cultures may have
continued without major rifts in social hierarchy.
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On Crete, however, the Mycenaean
invasion of around 1400 BC spelled the end of the Minoan
civilization. Mycenaean Greece is the Late Helladic Bronze Age
civilization of Ancient Greece. It lasted from the arrival of the
Greeks in the Aegean around 1600 BC to the collapse of
their Bronze Age civilization around 1100 BC. It is the historical
setting of the epics
of Homer and of most Greek mythology. The
Mycenaean period takes its name from the archaeological site Mycenae
in the northeastern Argolid, in the Peloponnesos of southern Greece.
Athens, Pylos, Thebes, and Tiryns are also important Mycenaean sites.
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Mycenaean civilization was dominated
by a warrior aristocracy. Around 1400 BC the Mycenaeans
extended their control to Crete, center of the Minoan
civilization, and adopted a form of the Minoan script called Linear A
to write their early form of Greek. The Mycenaean era script is
called Linear B. 240 words
The Mycenaeans buried their nobles in
beehive tombs (tholoi), large circular burial chambers with a high
vaulted roof and straight entry passage lined with stone. They often
buried daggers or some other form of military equipment with the
deceased. The nobility were often buried with gold
masks, tiaras, armor and jeweled weapons. Mycenaeans were buried in a
sitting position, and some of the nobility underwent
mummification. 301 words
Around 1100 BC the Mycenaean
civilization collapsed. Numerous cities were sacked and
the region entered what historians see as a dark age.
During this period Greece experienced a decline
in population and literacy. The Greeks themselves have traditionally
blamed this decline on an invasion by another wave of
Greek people, the Dorians, although there is scant archaeological
evidence for this view. 369 words
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Tier 3
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process
• individual • specific • principle • estimate •
variables • method • data • research • contract •
environment • export • source •
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archetype
• omniscient • oxymoron • paradox • pathetic fallacy •
standard English stereotype • symbolize • syntax •
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Extensions:
Complete a Keyword Outline and Rewrite the Article. Socratic
Extension: All great civilizations eventually fall into decline.
What
is a counterargument for this thesis statement.
Reading Boot Camp 6-8th
Grade: 20 Minutes Mini Lesson:
Reading Fluency Goal
160 CWPM
Close Reading and Socratic Seminar
Task: Rank the 3 most important ideas in the passage.
What is your hypothesis for the wars
between the Greek city-states? Write a thesis statement expressing a
claim and counterclaim.
Classical Greece Mentor Text
"The safest general
characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it
consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." (Alfred North
Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1929).
The basic unit of politics in Ancient
Greece was the polis, sometimes translated as city-state. "Politics"
literally means "the things of the polis". Each city was
independent, at least in theory. Some cities might be subordinate to
others (a colony traditionally deferred to its mother city), some
might have had governments wholly dependent upon others (the Thirty
Tyrants in Athens was imposed by Sparta following the Peloponnesian
War), but the titularly supreme power in each city was located within
that city. This meant that when Greece went to war (e.g., against the
Persian Empire), it took the form of an alliance going to war. It
also gave ample opportunity for wars within Greece between different
cities.
Two major wars shaped the Classical
Greek world. The Persian Wars (500–448 BC) are recounted in
Herodotus's Histories. Ionian Greek cities revolted from the Persian
Empire and were supported by some of the mainland cities, eventually
led by Athens. The notable battles of this war include Marathon,
Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea.)
To prosecute the war and then to defend
Greece from further Persian attack, Athens founded the Delian League
in 477 BC. Initially, each city in the League would contribute ships
and soldiers to a common army, but in time Athens allowed (and then
compelled) the smaller cities to contribute funds so that it could
supply their quota of ships. Secession from the League could be
punished. Following military reversals against the Persians, the
treasury was moved from Delos to Athens, further strengthening the
latter's control over the League. The Delian League was eventually
referred to pejoratively as the Athenian Empire.
In 458 BC, while the Persian Wars were
still ongoing, war broke out between the Delian League and the
Peloponnesian League, comprising Sparta and its allies. After some
inconclusive fighting, the two sides signed a peace in 447 BC. That
peace, it was stipulated, was to last thirty years: instead it held
only until 431 BC, with the onset of the Peloponnesian War. Our main
sources concerning this war are Thucydides's History of the
Peloponnesian War and Xenophon's Hellenica.
The war began over a dispute between
Corcyra and Epidamnus. Corinth intervened on the Epidamnian side.
Fearful lest Corinth capture the Corcyrean navy (second only to the
Athenian in size), Athens intervened. It prevented Corinth from
landing on Corcyra at the Battle of Sybota, laid siege to Potidaea,
and forbade all commerce with Corinth's closely situated ally, Megara
(the Megarian decree).
There was disagreement among the Greeks
as to which party violated the treaty between the Delian and
Peloponnesian Leagues, as Athens was technically defending a new
ally. The Corinthians turned to Sparta for aid. Fearing the growing
might of Athens, and witnessing Athens' willingness to use it against
the Megarians (the embargo would have ruined them), Sparta declared
the treaty to have been violated and the Peloponnesian War began in
earnest.
The first stage of the war (known as
the Archidamian War for the Spartan king, Archidamus II) lasted until
421 BC with the signing of the Peace of Nicias. The Athenian general
Pericles recommended that his city fight a defensive war, avoiding
battle against the superior land forces led by Sparta, and importing
everything needful by maintaining its powerful navy. Athens would
simply outlast Sparta, whose citizens feared to be out of their city
for long lest the helots revolt.
This strategy required that Athens
endure regular sieges, and in 430 BC it was visited with an awful
plague that killed about a quarter of its people, including Pericles.
With Pericles gone, less conservative elements gained power in the
city and Athens went on the offensive. It captured 300–400 Spartan
hoplites at the Battle of Pylos. This represented a significant
fraction of the Spartan fighting force which the latter decided it
could not afford to lose. Meanwhile, Athens had suffered humiliating
defeats at Delium and Amphipolis. The Peace of Nicias concluded with
Sparta recovering its hostages and Athens recovering the city of
Amphipolis.
Those who signed the Peace of Nicias in
421 BC swore to uphold it for fifty years. The second stage of the
Peloponnesian War began in 415 BC when Athens embarked on the
Sicilian Expedition to support an ally (Segesta) attacked by Syracuse
and to conquer Sicily. Initially, Sparta was reluctant, but
Alcibiades, the Athenian general who had argued for the Sicilian
Expedition, defected to the Spartan cause upon being accused of
grossly impious acts and convinced them that they could not allow
Athens to subjugate Syracuse. The campaign ended in disaster for the
Athenians.
Athens' Ionian possessions rebelled
with the support of Sparta, as advised by Alcibiades. In 411 BC, an
oligarchical revolt in Athens held out the chance for peace, but the
Athenian navy, which remained committed to the democracy, refused to
accept the change and continued fighting in Athens' name. The navy
recalled Alcibiades (who had been forced to abandon the Spartan cause
after reputedly seducing the wife of Agis II, a Spartan king) and
made him its head. The oligarchy in Athens collapsed and Alcibiades
reconquered what had been lost.
In 407 BC, Alcibiades was replaced
following a minor naval defeat at the Battle of Notium. The Spartan
general Lysander, having fortified his city's naval power, won
victory after victory. Following the Battle of Arginusae, which
Athens won but was prevented by bad weather from rescuing some of its
sailors, Athens executed or exiled eight of its top naval commanders.
Lysander followed with a crushing blow at the Battle of Aegospotami
in 405 BC which almost destroyed the Athenian fleet. Athens
surrendered one year later, ending the Peloponnesian War.
The war had left devastation in its
wake. Discontent with the Spartan hegemony that followed (including
the fact that it ceded Ionia and Cyprus to the Persian Empire at the
conclusion of the Corinthian War (395–387 BC); see Treaty of
Antalcidas) induced the Thebans to attack. Their general,
Epaminondas, crushed Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC,
inaugurating a period of Theban dominance in Greece. In 346 BC,
unable to prevail in its ten-year war with Phocis, Thebes called upon
Philip II of Macedon for aid. Macedon quickly forced the city states
into being united by the League of Corinth which led to the
conquering of the Persian Empire and the Hellenistic Age had begun.
Tier 2
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Tier 3
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Keyword
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circumstances
• instance • considerable • sufficient • interaction •
contribution • immigration • component • constraints •
technical • emphasis • scheme document • registered •
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Irony,
Juxtaposition, Label, Latin root, Link, Logic, Lyric, Manuscript
form, Metaphor, Modifier, Mood, Narration, Observe, Ode,
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Extensions:
Complete a Keyword Outline and Rewrite the Article. Socratic
Extension: War is a perpetual state for all growing
civilizations. What
is a counterargument for this thesis statement.
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