Chapter 9-4: Greek Achievements

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Chapter 9-4 Greek Achievements

• Pages 277-283

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Bell Work

• What is one of the greatest Greek buildings
  (architecture)?
• Who were the 3 great philosophers?
• What type of writings are the Greeks known for?
• What happened to Socrates?
• What is one thing the Greeks discovered about
  math?
• What did ancient Greek philosophers want to find
  out?
• What did the engineer Archimedes create?
• Who wrote The Republic?
• What is the Socratic Method?
• Who believed that moderation was based on reason
  and people should make inferences?

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Essential Questions

1. What great contributions did the Greeks make to
   the arts?
2. What teachings are the base of modern philosophy?
   Explain.
3. What key discoveries did the Greeks make in math,
   medicine, and engineering?

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Greek Achievements

• The Big Idea
• Ancient Greeks made lasting contributions in the
  arts, philosophy, and science.
• Main Ideas
• The Greeks made great contributions to the arts.
• The teachings of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
  are the basis of modern philosophy.
• In science, the Greeks made key discoveries in
  math, medicine, and engineering.

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Main Idea 1The Greeks made great contributions
to the arts.

• Greek statues look as though they could come to
  life at any time, because Greek artists wanted to
  show how beautiful people could be.
• Greek paintings are known for their realism and
  detail.
• The Greeks made temples with rows of tall columns
  rounded in the middle so they appear perfectly
  straight.
• The Parthenon was their most impressive temple.
  (also known as the Temple of Athena.
• The Greeks excelled at writing.
• They created dramas, or plays in honor of the
  gods.
• Sophocles and Aeschylus (dramatist)
• Comedies by Aristophanes (fun in war)
• The Greeks were the first to write about history.
• Thucydides wrote about the Peloponnesian War
• Tried to be neutral in his writings

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Statue of Athena inside of the Parthenon by
Phidias (fedeus)
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Cool Fact
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
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Main Idea 2 The teachings of Socrates, Plato,
and Aristotle are the basis of modern philosophy.

• Socrates taught by asking questions, a technique
  we call the Socratic method.
• He wanted people to question their beliefs and
  look for knowledge. This angered and frightened
  people.
• He was arrested and condemned to death for
  questioning the authority of the gods.
• Plato and Aristotle followed after Socrates in
  their pursuit for knowledge and deeper
  understanding of the human mind and the world.
• Plato was a student of Socrates who created a
  school called the Academy. One of his most
  famous writings was The Republic it describes
  Platos ideal society based on justice and
  fairness.
• Aristotle considered the greatest Greek thinker.
  He thought people should be reasonable. He
  created the idea of deductive reasoning, drawing
  conclusions, and making inferences.

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What is deductive reasoning and inferences?

• For example, if Socrates lives in Athens and
  Athens is in Greece, you can conclude that
  Socrates lives in Greece.
• This idea inspired many later Greek scientist.

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Trial and Death of Socrates
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Plato and Aristotle

• Plato had been a student of Socrates.
• Plato created a school, the Academy, to discuss
  ideas.
• He also wrote The Republic, which described his
  ideal society.

• Aristotle was Platos student.
• He taught about living life in moderation, or
  balance.
• He believed moderation was based on reason, or
  clear and ordered thinking.

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Main Idea 3 In science, the Greeks made key
discoveries in math, medicine, and engineering.

• Euclid (you-clid) spent his life studying
  mathematics, especially geometry.
• Lines, angles, and shapes
• Hypatia
• Mathematics and astronomy
• Greek doctors studied the human body to
  understand how it worked and what caused
  diseases.
• Hippocrates was a Greek doctor known for his
  ideas about how doctors should behave.
• Hippocratic Oath
• Engineers like Archimedes made great discoveries,
  such as the water screw, which brought water to
  the fields.

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Hippocrates says

• What you eat and where you live affects how you
  smell.

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Quick Questions

• What is one of the greatest Greek buildings
  (architecture)?
• Who were the 3 great philosophers?
• What type of writings are the Greeks known for?
• What happened to Socrates?
• What is one thing the Greeks discovered about
  math?
• What did ancient Greek philosophers want to find
  out?
• What did the engineer Archimedes create?
• Who wrote The Republic?
• What is the Socratic Method?
• Who believed that moderation was based on reason
  and people should make inferences?

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Water Screw
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Project Assessment Newspaper
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Newspaper Assignment Instructions

• Newspaper title and entry titles
• 5 entries
• 2 pictures
• Colored
• Focus Greek Information learned in Chapter 8 and
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• Newspaper Form (see picture to the right)
• Use dark markers for writing