Ancient Greece Festival Project

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Ancient Greece Festival Project

• Mrs. Burak
• History

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Festival Project

• Greeks were always celebrating special days on
  their calendars. In many ways, these festive
  days were very similar to our holidays like
  Thanksgiving and Christmas

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• They included contests of all kinds
• Reading poetry
• Performing dances
• Playing the lyre
• Acting in plays

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• Weeks from now, all of you will present a project
  that youve worked on for several days. The idea
  is to have each Hellene show that he or she has
  researched some aspect of ancient Greek life and
  culture.

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Guidlines

• Look over the list and select a subject to
  reasearch and eventually present
• Determine after some reading, how best to present
  the topic sing, dance, demonstrate, read, draw,
  compose, sew, explain, powerpoint, etc

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• Try to space out the time you have. Set aside
  several afternoons/nights to spend researching,
  reading, and note-taking
• Be sure to plan a visual
• Poster
• Pictures
• Slideshows
• Banners
• Music
• costumes

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• Think hard on how to be clever and catch the full
  and prolonged attention of your classmates. Do
  something startling! Ancient Greeks tended to be
  unpredictable and emotional people.

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Be Sure to Include

• Bibliography
• Write down 5 questions youd wish to be asked by
  the audience as a review of your presentation.
• Try to give everyone a show!

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Project Suggstions

• 1. Make examples of the chiton, peplos, and
  himation. Demonstrate how each was put on and
  worn.
• 2. Research ancient Greek designs (fetas) and
  make a poster to present and explain
• 3.Research the Greek alphabet and explain how it
  came to be and how it influences our present-day
  alphabet.
• 4. Demonstrate the events of the early Olympic
  games.
• 5. Research Greek music and give a presentation
  on how it was used in Greek culture.
• 6. Research Greek musical instruments. Make one
  or two and then demonstrate how the were used.

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• 7. Research dancing in ancient Greece. Then
  perform a dance with a narrator explaining it.
  Then demonstrate a modern Greek dance.
• 8. Collect pictures of Greek art and
  architecture. Mount them on posterboard.
  Explain the pictures during your presentation.
• 9. Make a mosaic or fresco in the ancient Greek
  style.
• 10. Make a large poster with drawings of the
  different kinds of pottery and their uses
  funeral urns, drinking cups, storage jars, etc
• 11. Research Greek pottery. Then make two
  terra-cotta vases, one with red figures, one with
  black figures.
• 12. Make a statute of a Greek god or goddess.
  Use wood, wire, tape, plaster of Paris, and
  various tools to complete it. Explain how you did
  it and all about the deity.

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• 13. Make some Greek coins. Use self-hardening
  clay, small modeling tools, toothpicks, silver or
  gold paint, etcExplain the different kinds of
  currency.
• 14. Make or draw the three classic column styles
  of ancient Greece Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
  Label the various parts and explain the
  construction of Greek temples. Self-hardening
  clay is the material to use if youre making
  them. Small carving tools will help you shap
  scrolls, leaves, and other decorative elements.
• 15. Write an epic poem in the Homeric style and
  perform it.
• 16. Make a clay model of the Trojan Horse as
  mentioned in the Iliad by Homer. Explain how the
  horse was used to help the Greeks defeat the
  Trojans.

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• 17. Make some Greek masks used in tragedies and
  comedies. Have them ready to use and explain
  them in detail.
• 18. Make a poster explaining the differences
  between the beliefs of Socrates, Plato, and
  Aristotle.

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Rubric