Student groups will be required to research specific categories (civilization's history, political structure of the civilization, etc.) in the library. A powerpoint presentation will then be created and presented to the class.
Students will record the information from the powerpoint presentations presented by every group in their "civilization log". This will serve as our textbook and will be the bulk of the material they are tested and quizzed on.
The performance of the group to manage their finances, foreign policies, economics, and cultural and artistic development will be 20% of their grade.
This elective class does not have any textbooks. As a result, a lot of what the students will learn will come from their own research and presentations done in the library (45% of the class).
Students will begin by being broken into one of seven groups. While in these groups they will role play a particular civilization by controling its finances, its expansion policy, its military troops, its economic growth, and its cultural and artistic development.
Student groups will use the computer to simulate ancient battles as their expansion
Meeting in the library this monday 9/12, and wed. 9/14.
Bring a disk
10% - Homework
35% - Classwork
20% - Project
No late homework is accepted
No late classwork is accpeted except on a case by case basis
Bring a disk