Ancient Greek Culture

Assessment Plan

Pre-assessment

This learning experience includes assessments that are diagnostic, formative, and summative.
The diagnostic assessment includes a KWL chart that students complete as a class. Each student must participate by stating at least two comments about the “what you know” section or “what you want to know” section. This will evaluate the students’ prior knowledge of Ancient Greece. The students’ prior knowledge of Ancient Greece will most likely to be minimal; therefore, the teacher needs to scaffold students intensely in order to activate their schema.

The following is the KWL chart created by the students.

K  (What you know)

W  (what you want to know)

L  (What I learned)
  1. Olympics
  2. Gods/goddesses
  3. Poseidon (God of sea)
  4. Zeus (God of sky)
  5. Lightning
  6. Gladiators
  7. Beasts
  1. How did they live?
  2. What language did they speak?
  3. What Gods did they worship?
  4. How did the Olympics start?
  5. What events did they have?
  1. Greeks were separated by mountains and Mediterranean Sea
  2. Spoke Greek
  3. Zeus, Athena, Hera, Hercules
  4. Olympics were held to honor Zeus
  5. Types of Olympic events: foot races, javelin throw, wrestling
  6. People lived in city-state (polis)
  7. Different types of government (Oligarchy, aristocracy, democracy)
  8. 2 main city-states—Athens and Sparta
  9. Helot-slave
  10. Mt. Olympus is highest point in Greece; believed to be home of the most important Gods

The formative assessment includes the lesson quizzes that the students will take after each lesson.
The summative assessment includes the final product the student completes including the shield and the typed paragraph describing the components of the shield. Students will also have an Ancient Greek Shield Checklist to self-assess their work.

The Ancient Greek Shield Rubric is aligned to the NYS Standards and Performance Indicators with the words “customs, traditions, religious and spiritual beliefs”. These words can be found in Key Idea 1, and the performance indicator on page 37 of the NYS Social Studies Learning Standards, found on the New York State Education Department website.

Click on the following links to view the Ancient Greek Shield Rubric and the Ancient Greek Student Checklist that were utilized during this learning experience to assess the students.

Teacher Rubric

Student Checklist