Focusing Question

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Focusing Question

• How do we develop good questions to guide our
  research?

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Virtual Socrates

• What is your full name?
• 2. How old are you?
• 3. Where do you live?
• 4. What did you eat for breakfast?
• 5. What is a research question?
• 6. How do we create research questions?
• 7. What are some research questions about the
  Parthenon?
• 8. Socrates, is there anything else you can tell
  us?

Ask Socrates
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Notes on Helena

• To learn more, click
• Helena, For the Parthenon or
• Helena, Against the War.

http//greece.teachingmatters.org/node/52
http//greece.teachingmatters.org/node/117
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Student Activity

• Read Helenas point of view
• Handout 2.3a Helena, For the Parthenon or
• Handout 2.3b Helena, Against the War.
• Take notes on index cards, using the glossary and
  good note-taking strategies.
• If there is time, post your answers to the
  questions at the bottom of the page on the class
  weblog.

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Lesson Summary

• How do we develop good questions to guide our
  research?
• How will these questions help us do our research?
  
• What did you learn from Helena about her
  perspective on the Parthenon?
• What did you learn from Helena about her
  perspective on the war against Sparta?

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Homework

• Take notes on
• Handout 2.3c Spiro, "Against the Parthenon
• or
• Handout 2.3d Spiro, "Against the War.
• Use four index cards for your notes.
• Remember to take home your glossary.