World+Cultures+&+Geography

Monday, September 24th
This week in class we will be examining ancient Greek city-states. Two of the most prominent city-states happened to be ATHENS and SPARTA. Both achieved greatness in their own unique way. Your first task this week is to recreate the following chart on a piece of paper distributed in class, and use the following links to fill in information. YOU MAY WORK WITH __**ONE**__ PARTNER.

Links: [|Athens #1] [|Athens #2] [|Athens #3] [|Athens & Sparta] [|Sparta #2] [|Sparta #3]

=Tuesday, September 25th or Wednesday, September 26th.= Today in library we are going to find visual representation of Spartan and Athenian cultures. The following is your task for the day...

Create ONE of the following: a **Travel Brochure, a Posters or a Real Estate Ad**. After reading the information about Sparta and Athens, and looking at the chart you created, prepare a poster or travel brochure advertising or real estate ad extolling your city-state (choose between Sparta and Athens). Tell about its advantages to the prospective visitors or potential home owners. Highlights may include: cultural activities (such as drama, music and arts); recreation, athletics and sports; architecture and famous sites; schools; accommodations (like homes where the tourists can stay with some of the locals or homes for sale); transportation; and food. Include a map showing where your city-state is located. In another smaller section you may want to add "travel alerts" which warn the tourist of some of the dangers he/she might encounter while staying in your city-state.

We have one planned class work day, and this task is due Monday, October 1st. You will share your product with the class on this date = = =Monday, December 10th, 2007=

Your task is examine the leaders of the Soviet Union / Russia from Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin. In chronological order I want you to create a photographic timeline of Soviet/Russian leaders and policies or events that have defined their leadership.
 * Russian Leadership Activity**

This activity requires you to search the Web, and do light research on each individual. When reading about each figure, find a photograph, political cartoon or piece of artwork that defines the individual’s period of leadership. Print off both the leaders picture, and the picture depicting their time in power and construct a timeline. (You may cut and past and use a word document like the example on the back of this sheet as well.)

Label the leader, his years in power, and provide an EXCELLENT description what your picture is and why you chose it.

These are the Soviets/Russian to research: 1) Joseph Stalin (1922-1953) 2) Nikita Khrushchev (1953-1964) 3) Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982) 4) Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991) 5) Boris Yeltsin (1991-1999) 6) Vladimir Putin (1999-present)

Download the attachment for an example of what the project may look like if it was done for American President's. This example has everything except for the detailed picture description.



You will have three entire class periods to work on this project, and it is due on MONDAY, DECEMBER 17th!