This lesson contains 17 slides, with text slides and 3 videos.
Lesson duration is: 60 min
Items in this lesson
Today
Paragraph 3.5 - Alexander the Great
Slide 1 - Slide
At the end of the lesson you will know/be able to…
making notes using a Cornell scheme (?)
name the four major battles between the Greeks and Persians in the fifth century BC
why the battles are important Western history/mythmakers
Slide 2 - Slide
How it started
+/-500 BC: Ionian coastal area has Greek poleis ruled by Persians
492 BC: Athens supports rebel poleis in Ionia, rebels crushed by Persian overlords
Persia to war against Athens to punish them
Slide 3 - Slide
Slide 4 - Slide
Marathon
490 BC: Athens leading a small Greek army (without Sparta) at Marathon and defeats the Persians
Sparta had a religious festival
Slide 5 - Slide
Let's do that again
480 BC: Xerxes, son of the previous Persian king attacks main land Greece to conquer it
Battle of Thermopylea: 300 Spartans with one of their king (Leonidas) die, Athens is burned to the ground
Slide 6 - Slide
Slide 7 - Video
But...
The Persian fleet gets destroyed at the battle of Salamis (Athens is in charge there) and the other Spartan king leads an army composed of a lot of Greek poleis to victory against the Persians at Plataea (479 BC)
Slide 8 - Slide
Slide 9 - Video
We won and then we fight
The myth of the 'West' (no notes, just a side note)
Read together 'Peloponnesian War: Greeks fighting Greeks' and 'The rise of Macadon' (TB 67)
Make in duo's exercise 2 up to and including 4 (WB 99-101)
Slide 10 - Slide
Today
Paragraph 3.5 - Alexander the Great - part two
Slide 11 - Slide
At the end of the lesson you will know/be able to…
broadly point out where Alexander the Great went on his conquests
explain that historical research is (sometimes) not just reading books
explain that Cleopatra was Greek
Slide 12 - Slide
Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia and India
Slide 13 - Slide
Practical historical research
Read together 'King Alexander' (TB 67-8) and exercise 7 (WB 102)
Slide 14 - Slide
Slide 15 - Video
Make exercise 7 (WB 102), read 'After Alexander's death' (TB 68) and make exercise 8 a (WB 103)
Lesson duration is: 60 min
