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Unit Differentiation for Ancient Greece: A Culture Lost?

Content Process Product


Readiness:
Interdisciplinary


English


Social Studies


Math


Music


In the Week 3 Day 5
lesson plan on
Thucydides History of the
Peloponnesian War
students will be given
abridged text based on
their readiness pre-
assessment that is
outlined in lesson plan.

In the Apology lesson
students have their
content (the text)
differentiated based on
readiness level of
reading.

In Euclid lesson, students
may choose the difficulty
level of the theorem that
they would like to prove in
the opening activity.

In the Ancient Scales
lesson (more specifically
the resulting set of
challenges), Students are
encouraged to learn each
scale at their own pace;
Sections get to choose
with etude to focus on

Student process
differentiation will be
done through pre-
assessments that can
take the form of informal
Chalk Talks (as in the
Community Circle on
Athens and Sparta
lesson plan) or more
formal Concept
Attainment exercises
(as in the Research
Methods lesson plan).

See Englishs Research
Methods notes above.

In the Conditional
Statements lesson,
students may decide if
they are ready to move
to analysing conditional
statements after
categorizing them.

In the Ancient Scales
lesson, students are
allowed to draw/write
whatever the Epitaph of
Seikilos makes them
think/feel and are
encouraged to draw
their own conclusions
about the piece before
coming together as a
group.
Students products will
be differentiated in both
English and Social
Studies by having an
entire class devoted to
the development of
research methods
before the Symposium
Project is due, as
students will be called
upon to conduct
research for the
product. Thus, students
receive the
differentiated individual
attention necessary to
complete the product.


Interests:

Interdisciplinary


English


Social Studies

In the Compare and
Contrast lesson plan for
Athens and Sparta,
students will have content
differentiated for their
interests in the form of a
hook that compares and
contrasts familiar modern
popular culture items. In
this way, students can
The three fully realized
Lesson Plans for
English include a
Mastery, a
Understanding, and an
Interpersonal strategy.
There are many lessons
in the lesson outlines
that are suitable for
Self-Expressive
In the Research
Methods lesson plan
students are called
upon to investigate a
topic of their own
choice to find 5 valid,
unbiased and useful
sources. Thus,
students should
constantly engage with

Math


Music


receive content that is
relevant to their interests.

In all assessments in
Social Studies students
may choose to work on a
topic of their choice
(within the specific sub-
set provided by the
teacher).

In the what is culture
lesson, students may
choose the questions that
they answer for the
journaling portion of the
lesson.
Strategies, some of the
most apt for this
strategy are even
mentioned.

Allow students to work
in groups sizes of their
choice (including
independently) in
numerous lesson plans,
particularly the Greek
Geography one.

In the resulting scale
challenge from Ancient
Music, students are
allowed to choose one
scale variation (learned
through different
processes) out of many;
Students are given
several opportunities to
work on scales and
etudes either
complex material in a
way that interests them
in an effort to produce
unique and culturally
relevant products.

Student products in the
Symposium
assessment can be
presented in the way
they see fit and choose
to interpret the
character they are
representing. In the
City-state -- Modern
Nation parallel
assessment students
are also able to self-
select based on interest
countries they would
like to make
comparisons with.

In the Euclid lesson,
students choose the
content of their letter to
Euclid.
In the fairy tale debate,
students choose the
fairy tale that they
would like to analyze.

In the presentation of
the Mode Project
stemming from the
lesson The Evolution of
Modes students are
able to either choose a
pre-existing melody
based on their
assigned mode or
create their own
melody based on their
assigned mode.

For the time capsule
project, students may
choose the aesthetic
form for the aesthetic
representation.

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