Sample Project Suggestions

  1. Research Socrates an dthe Socratic dialogue.  Then write a one- to two-page example of it.  you might perform it with a small group.
  2. Act out Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, either the entire epic or an important part of it.
  3. If your class didn't make Greek costumes for the simulation, make examples of the chiton, peplos,  and himation.  Demonstrate how each was put on and worn.
  4. Research ancient Greek designs (fets) and make a poster to present and explain.
  5. Research the Greek alphabet and explain how it came to be and how it influenced out present-day alphabet.
  6. Make Greek food.  Ancient Greeks at simple food:  fruit, olives, porridge, figs, nuts, honey, grapes, watered-down wine, pork, fish, and limited vegetables like beans, pesa, and cabbage.  Cook up and serve recipes of more modern Greek food like gyros, baklava, spinach pie, and Greek salads.
  7. Demonstrate the evens of the early Olympic games.
  8. Research Greek music and give a presentation on how it was used in Greek culture.
  9. Research Greek musical instruments.  If you can, make one or two and then demonstrate how they were used.
  10. Research dancing in ancient Greece.  Then perform a dance with a narrator explaining it.  Then demonstrate a modern Greek dance.
  11. Act out one or two Greek myths.
  12. collect pictures of Greek art and architecture.  Mount them on posterboard.  Explain the pictures during your presentation.
  13. Make a mosaic or fresco in the ancient Greek style.
  14. Make a large poster with drawings of the different kinds of pottery and their uses: funeral urns, drinking cups, storage jars, etc.
  15. Make a Greek frieze with heroic scenes from mythology or events.  use clay, flour paste, etc.
  16. Research Greek pottery.  Then make two terra-cotta vases, one with red figures, one with black figures.
  17. Make a statute of a Greek god or goddess.  Use wood, wire, tape, burlap, plaster of Paris, and various tools to complete it.  Explain how you did it and all about the deity.
  18. Make some Greek coins.  Use self-hardening clay, small modeling tools, toothpicks, silver or gold paint, etc.  Explain the different kinds of currency.
  19. Make a Greek chlamys or cape, and decorate it with traditional ancient Greek designs.  Carve the mold for the design out of a half potato with an Exacto knife or use a large rubber eraser.  Use fabric paint on the cape.
  20. 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 you're making them.  Small carving tools will help you shape scrolls, leaves, and other decorative elements.
  21. Write an epic poem in the Homeric style and perform it.
  22. Make a large relief map of ancient Hellas.  Then explain how geography shaped the Greek character and, for the most part, kept the Greeks disunited.
  23. Make a chart to teach how to pronounce Greek words.  Then stage a dialogue in authentic ancient Greek language between two or three students.  See if the rest of the class can deduce what's been said.
  24. Write a mini-drama about a Greek family's life.
  25. Make a model of a Greek ship based on your research of the various kinds of ships and how the sea influenced Greek life.
  26. Create a Greek daily/weekly newspaper with headlines, articles, and photos.  Duplicate it and distribute it as students come into the classroom.
  27. Make a timeline of Greek history on a long piece of butcher paper.  Explain it and then display it.
  28. 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.
  29. Make a model of a typical Greek house.  Explain how different/similar homelife was for the Greeks compared to modern people.
  30. Perform or make a video of an ancient Greek "television" program.  Model it on a contemporary show.
  31. Make a poster explaining the difference between the beliefs of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
  32. Make a poster and a map explaining the soldier, the phalanx, and Alexander the Great/s conquests.
  33. Make some Greek masks used in tragedies and comedies.  have them ready to use in the Theater Phase and then explain them in detail during the Festival.
  34. Dress up like a Greek warrior.  Explain the uniform, weapons, and fighting techniques.
  35. Using a large posterboard, make a maze and then illustrate the story of Theseus and the Minotaur.
  36. Create a board game about ancient Greece.  Utilize a dice roll and fate cards, but make it accurate.  Invite students to come forward during your presentation to play it.  Give it a clever name.
  37. Create a play about Spartan life.  Exaggerate it's harshness and its military aspects.
  38. Make a wax-covered writing tablet and accompanying stylus.  Demonstrate it during your presentation.
  39. Stage the final arguments for and against Socrates as the Athenian philosopher awaits his fate in a trial.  Have a narrator set the scene and do a postscript.  possibly add a few witnesses.
  40. Demonstrate the instruments a Greek doctor might have used to treat and heal his patients.
  41. Demonstrate how the Greeks weighed, measured, counted, and did their math.  use the chalkboard to demonstrate.  See if your fellow students can do some simple problems.
  42. Research the odd or shady side of Greek life.  Explain how slavery functioned, how Greeks kept clean, where they "did their business," what happened to the homeless, how men treated women, how children were raised, their attitude about retarded or deformed children, the practice of animal sacrifices, etc.
  43. Make an alphabet scroll, using dowels, ribbon, tape, glue, and black ink.  Explain how you made it and how it was used.
  44. Act out a Greek myth with two or three of your classmates.  Utilize a narrator to explain the story.

 

 

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