Course Assignment Grid

Cycle	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
1	Welcome to Western Civilization:	Black Ships Before Troy assessment due. Discussion in class	What is a Barbarian? Textbook Making of the West (MW)pp 32-34, Homer The Odyssey Reader (R): pp 1-5	Anthony Pagden "The image of the barbarian" Learning about values by studying popular myths R: pp 6-8	Mythical Barbarians Aeschylus Prometheus Bound,Hesiod Works and Days R: pp 9-17
2	Remaking Greek Civilization, c. 750-500 BC MW pp 34-42 Solon and Tyrtaeus Reader pp 18-19; Lycurgus pp 20-21	Greek Golden Age, c. 500-400 BC Clash between Persians and Greeks, 499-479 BC -- MW: pp 47-52	Greek Values Evaluation	Athenian Confidence in the Golden Age, 479-431 BC MW: pp 52-60	Tradition and Innovation in Athens’s Golden Age: MW pp 60-67 Aristotle Slaves by Nature Reader: pp 22-23
3	Education and Intellectual Innovation MW pp 67-77 In Class: Aristophanes' view of Socrates: Reader pp 38-47	Plato Allegory of the Cave R: pp 33-38	The End of the Golden Age, 431-403 BC MW pp 77-82 Thucydides Pericles’ Funeral Oration, Pseudo-Xenophon, Thucydides and Plutarch Reader: 24-32	Review	Sophomore Service (work on your map)
4	Sophomore Service (work on your map)	Evaluation Ancient Greece	Apology of Socrates MW: 86-88, Reader pp 48-54	WORK ON DOCUMENTS (R 55-57) and THESIS/OUTLINE IDEAS	REVIEW
5	Essay: The Execution of Socrates	Alexander the Great and Hellenism	The Rise of Rome, c 753-44 BC MW: pp 119-128	From Monarchy to Republic, c 753-287 BC MW: pp 128-134 The Oppian Debate R: 80-83	Consequences of Roman Imperialism, Fifth to Second Centuries BC MW : 135-145
6	Upheaval in the Late Republic, c 133-44 BC MW: pp 145-148 The Brothers Gracchi, R: 84-90	Pompey, Caesar, and the Downfall of the Republic MW: 148-152 Caesar in Rome R: 91-93	Review	PSAT DAY	TEST END OF FIRST QUARTER
7	The Roman Empire c 44 BC- AD 284 MW pp 155-168	THE IMPERIAL CULT Maintaining “Roman Peace” MW pp 169-178 The Imperial Cult Reader pp 94-95 Homer’s Underworld 96-97	The Emergence of Christianity MW pp 178-182 Should we include Jewish/Zoroastrian Apocalypse?	Jesus, Nazarines, and Romans Jesus and Nazarines R: 103-107 Christian Apocalypse: R: 108-109 Paul the Apostle R: 110-111	Apocalypse: R 114-120
8	Quiz	Growth of a New Religion 182-188 Pagan Attacks on Christianity R: 108-109, 112-113	The Crisis of the Third Century MW pp 188-194	The Transformation of the Roman Empire, AD 284-c. 600 MW pp 197-204	Bennett Ecstasy in Late Imperial Rome Reader: 121-126
9	Christianizing the Empire MW pp 205-213	Review	TEST	Introduction to Renaissance/ Reformation (Art Packet) NO HOMEWORK!	New Forms of Thought and Expression: The Renaissance MW pp 415-424
10	Renaissance Women: Paragons of Virtue, Fonts of Vice... READER: pages 92-105 READ EITHER KNOX or SPRENGER	Niccolo Machiavelli: Evil incarnate? READER: 11-16, 19-21	On the Threshold of World History MW 424-432	Medieval notions of the World beyond Europe: Debra Higgs StricklandMonsters and Christian Enemies READER: pp 122-128	ASSESSMENT
11	How Columbus Viewed the World: R 22-36	The Encounter with the New World Part I: Encounters R 37-51	Judging Columbus: R 106-115	Encounter with the New World Part II: Conquest R 52-63 (line 508)	Encounter with the New World Part II: Conquest R 63 (line 509) - 77
12	The Indians and the New World, a Renaissance challenge READER: 78-91 Planning for Trial	Implications of the Renaissance “Clash of Civilizations”… READER: 116-121 Trial Part I	Review Trial Part II	Review