For the past two weeks, we have been learning about ancient Greece through our work with Inquiry Circles. Each Inquiry Circle (group) focused their conversation on a different non-fiction ancient Greece text that they voted on. Group members decided ahead of time what topics they'd like to discuss, what pages to read for homework, marked their thinking using sticky notes, and discussed the text in school. This process required a great deal of responsibility! Our aim was to keep the conversation about the text going for 10 minutes. Many of the groups could have kept the conversation going even longer. Afterwards each group member rated the conversation on a 1-5 scale. This self-reflection helped us think about how to improve the conversation for the next meeting.
Each group tried to connect their small conversation to one of the BIG Questions that will guide our investigation of ancient Greece:
- 1. How did the location of ancient Greece affect how people lived?
- 2. What do you need to have a successful civilization? What is most important? (clothing, food, shelter, water, leaders, rules, government, religion, military in case of war (protection), education, theatre, art, buildings/architecture, sports, music, medicine, money
- 3. Was the Ancient Greece civilization fair to all its members?
- 4. How were decisions made? Who had the power?
- 5. What are some of the connections between ancient Greece and our lives?
Here are the are different books that groups worked with:
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