Ancient Greeks: 10 lessons for KS2 A fully-resourced unit of 10 history lessons for KS2, covering the Ancient Greece topic. What you get: 10 lesson Powerpoint files 10 detailed lesson plans Teachers’ notes, including curriculum coverage Pupil activity sheets for all lessons About the Unit The ten sessions in this unit aim to give an overview of life in Ancient Greece, including a focus on its achievements and influence on the western world. As with all of the KS2History unit plans, there is an emphasis on allowing pupils to consider the sources of evidence that form our understanding of this period of world history. Aims of the Unit To gain an overview of significant people, places and events from Ancient Greece To contrast daily life in Ancient Greece with modern day lifestyles ! To consider broader historical context, particularly with regards to the expansion of the Ancient Greek empire and lasting legacy To become familiar with historical sources, debates and accurate vocabulary relating to Ancient Greece Lessons in the Pack Who were the Ancient Greeks? Why were Athens and Sparta so different? What was Alexander the Great’s impact on the Greek empire? Why did a small Greek army win the Battle of Marathon? What were the Ancient Greek gods known for? What happened at the Ancient Greek Olympic Games? What were the Ancient Greek philosophers famous for? Did the events of the Trojan Horse story really happen? What was daily life like for children in Ancient Greece? How significant is the legacy of Ancient Greece for life today? This pack contains everything you need to teach this unit, including differentiated activity ideas so that it can be adapted to the needs of your class. The Powerpoint text is also editable. This pack is brought to you from Ks2history

Flashcards for OCR Greek Art Vases - includes key information and scholarship on all vases. 2x flashcards on A4 paper. Can be used on PowerPoints or revision for students. Easy to edit.

Flashcards for OCR Greet Art Architectural Sculpture with all key information and scholarship included. 2x flashcards on A4 paper. Can be used in Powerpoint or revision for students. Easy to edited if needed.

Flashcards with all key information for Free-Standing Sculpture including scholarship. 2x Flashcards per A4 page. Can be used in PowerPoints or for stduents revision.

A 6-week Greek Theatre scheme of work, exploring chorus, masks and myths. This scheme comes complete with detailed powerpoints and supporting resources, so no planning is needed and you are ready to go! This resource pack includes: Scheme of work Powerpoints Unit overview Lesson planning Assessment criteria levels (2-5) Assessment guide Cover lesson pack Myth narratives

This 20-lesson unit is packed with everything you need to take your class on an unforgettable journey through Greek mythology. Children will explore the world of gods, heroes and mythical creatures, using well-known myths like Theseus and the Minotaur as inspiration to plan and write their own original myth. The unit is structured from cold task to hot task, giving children the chance to show progress and build confidence across the weeks. You’ll find detailed lesson plans, worksheets, and a fully resourced PowerPoint for every step of the way. 20 fully planned English lessons A cold task to assess starting points, and a hot task to show progress Model text: Theseus and the Minotaur Engaging grammar starters (e.g. subordinate clauses, speech punctuation, hyphens) Shared writing opportunities and oral storytelling Lessons on gods, heroes and mythical creatures Story structure focus: opening, build-up, problem, resolution, ending Worksheets, planning templates, scaffolds and challenge tasks Extensive teaching PowerPoint with visuals and modelling prompts Differentiated tasks (Support, Expected, Challenge)

This engaging and detailed lesson enables students to gain a deep understanding of the Greek Myth ‘Theseus and The Minotaur.’ In doing so, students learn to interpret and infer the key meanings in a myth, analyse the descriptive language in a myth, and use descriptive language to describe their own ancient Greek monster. The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to: - Define the key terms ‘adjective’ and ‘synonym’ and use these appropriately and imaginatively to describe an image of the Minotaur; - Read the story ‘Theseus and The Minotaur’ and interpret the key meanings; - Identify, understand, and analyse the descriptive language in ‘Theseus and The Minotaur;’ - Apply their understanding of descriptive techniques by creating and describing their own mythical beast, using a model example, a success criteria, and a scaffold; - Peer assess each other’s descriptive attempts. This resource pack includes: - A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation; - Paper copies and online links to the extract needed for the lesson; - Understanding Descriptive Language worksheet; - Creating a Beast Template, and model example; - A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.

A 5 week unit focusing on Greek myths and legends for KS3 students stories and resources included Each myth builds a foundation of the key concepts and texts taught at GCSE. These include tragic heroes, femininity, power and humanity. The unit focuses on reading comprehension, creative writing (fiction and non-fiction) as well as analytical writing. Writing structures provided (most with sentence starters.) Week 1: The Ancient Greeks Lesson 1: The Ancient Greeks Lesson 2: Greek Gods and Goddesses Lesson 3: Mythical Beasts Lesson 4: Hercules Week 2: Be Careful What You Wish For Lesson 5: Pandora’s Box Lesson 6: King Midas Lesson 7: Icarus Week 3: Vanity and Narcissism Lesson 9: Mirror Descriptions Lesson 10: Narcissus Lesson 11: Medusa Lesson 12: Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa’ Week 4: The Power of Nature: Lesson 13: Hades and the Underworld Lesson 14: Persephone’s Abduction Lesson 15: Artemis and Orion Lesson 16: Poseidon Week 5: Masculinity and Tragic Heroes Lesson 17: Prometheus and Zeus Lesson 18: Persuading Zeus Lesson 19: Achilles and the Tragic Hero Lesson 20: Greek Myths Quiz

A fun and engaging scheme of six lessons intended to introduce Year 7 students to Greek Theatre. This scheme is complete with all PowerPoints and resources. The lessons cover a terms worth of work (6 lessons minimum but it could easily be extended). Each lesson has a slide at the start, summarising the content of each lesson for teachers and students. Information and guidance on how to deliver the lesson is in the notes section of the PowerPoint, with guidance on how to use the resources in this pack also. There is also a milestone at the end of the SOL for 'testing' students work and progress. I hope your students have as much fun with this scheme of learning as my students have in the past.

This engaging and detailed lesson enables students to gain a deep understanding of the Greek Myth ‘Perseus and Medusa.’ In doing so, students learn to interpret and infer the key elements of plot in texts, comment upon the key themes and plot ideas running through a text, and empathise with the first-person perspective of a character. The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to: - Define the key term ‘bravery’ and understand its position as a theme within the plot; - Read the story ‘Perseus and Medusa’ and interpret the key meanings; - Identify, explain, and analyse the key plot elements and themes in ‘Perseus and Medusa;’ - Storyboard the main plot features in the text; - Engage deeply with the text by inferring the thoughts and feelings of the main character; - Peer assess each other’s learning attempts. This resource pack includes: - A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation; - Online link to the extract needed for the lesson; - Plot and Themes worksheet; - Storyboard template; - A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson. All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.

A complete scheme of work, introducing students to the concepts of Ancient Greek Theatre. The scheme covers a variety of ideas and culminates in a summative, performance assessment. Included in this pack: Lesson 1 - The Gods Lesson 2 - Amphitheatres and Antigone Lesson 3 - The Chorus Lesson 4 - Masks Lesson 5 - Devising Lesson 6 - Rehearsing Lesson 7 - Assessment/Performance Assessment sheet Script for assessment (Creon/Chorus dialogue) A great scheme for KS3 drama in particular :)

A good SOW for year 8 that explores Greek Theatre.

This engaging and purposeful lesson is the sixth and final lesson in a series of lessons in which children develop an in-depth understanding of Ancient Greece. There is a particular focus on the achievements of the Ancient Greeks and how these have influenced the world. In this lesson, children consider how modern society has been influenced by the achievements of the Ancient Greeks. Specifically, they: -Understand how Ancient Greek discovery and learning has impacted the world; -Understand how Ancient Greek democracy and law has impacted the world. -Understand how Ancient Greek sport, culture and religion has impacted the world. The learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through the following step-by-step journey: -Understanding the meaning of the key concept ‘legacy.’ -Considering Greek achievements in each of the key areas (discovery and learning, democracy and law, and sport, culture and religion) and then linking these achievements to what is seen in the modern world; -Using clear guidance and a structure strip (provided) based on what they have learnt to form a clear, organised response to the enquiry question: 'How have Ancient Greek achievements influenced the world? -Self-reflecting on the extent to which they feel they have met the learning objective, and considering the questions that they have for further learning. Included is the comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (24 slides), which contains all of the information needed to teach the lesson and the structure strip for the main enquiry-response activity (provided in both Word and PDF). In the past, I have used this lesson with children in lower KS2 (years 3 and 4), however this was an advanced class and these resources could easily be used with upper KS2. The key learning is aligned with KS2 curriculum expectations for history. All images are licensed for commercial use.

An Ancient Greece Myth word mat designed to help students describe a setting, hero or monster. The product is two pages, ideal for printing back to back and laminating to use again.

Three-week writing unit about a Greek myth, planned in detail and fully resourced and differentiated. It is pitched at Year 4, but would work equally well in Year 5 or 6 (please see the key skills covered below). For most sessions, there are resources to extend high attainers and resources to support SEN learners. By the end of the unit, children will have written a Greek myth of their own, informed by the structure of Theseus and the Minotaur. Along the way, there is drama, grammar skills, vocabulary work and short-burst diary writing - please see the objectives below. This unit is ready to go! Three weeks of differentiated resources is a lot of files, so you can’t see it all in the preview. When you buy, please use the zip folder. The contents of the zip are organised into weeks and then into individual lessons (the other files are only there so that people can preview the unit!) . The zip will enable you to navigate your way through the plan and related resources with ease. All resources are PowerPoint and Word, so you will have no issues opening anything - and you can edit to suit your own needs - no PDFs! There are many, many resources included. Here are a few key examples: model text (short and long versions); a story map; drama activities; story boards; cold task/assessment task; reading comprehension activities; conjunctions activities; scavenger hunt; paragraphing activities; pronoun activities; noun phrase activities; fronted adverbial activities; tool kits; idea gathering resources; planning grids; peer assessment resources; and many more! The key objectives covered repeatedly throughout the unit are: Reading: • increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally • asking questions to improve their understanding of a text • drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence Vocab/grammar/punctuation • I can use a wide range of subordinating conjunctions (when, if, because, although) • I understand the term ‘adverbial’ and I can use fronted adverbials (with a comma) • I can choose a variety of nouns and pronouns (to avoid repetition) Composition • discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar • organising paragraphs around a theme Evaluate and edit by: • assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements These have been broken down and written in ‘child speak’ within the planning.

Complete unit of work for the teaching of Ancient Greek Influences, focusing on Plato and Aristotle. This was created for the A-Level Religious Studies OCR. The resource includes PowerPoint slides for a series of lessons covering the whole unit, plus a student booklet made alongside the PowerPoint to encourage student-led learning. The booklet includes a wide range of activities to test and demonstrate knowledge and understanding. The resource covers all key points on the spec, including Plato’s theory of the forms and analogy of the cave, Aristotle’s four causes and the Prime Mover, concluding in evaluation of both theories and comparison of the two. Also included in this resource package is an A3 revision sheet for comparison of the theories plus an A3 revision map breaking the unit down into clear sections; a knowledge test, with answers included; an example essay with clear structuring and example points to support students. If you find this resource helpful or have any further comments, please let me know. Happy teaching!

Lessons of the entire topic of A-level OCR Classical Civilisation Greek Religion, Unit 1 The Nature of the Olympian Gods, including: Olympian Deities and their nature; epithets; hero cults; personal, localised, Panhellenic worship.

A powerpoint explaining some of the main gods from Ancient Greece.

Use this podcast and accompanying transcript to teach your students all about famous Greeks!

A conversation among a mother, her daughter and a boy who are introduced to each other. With Greek subtitles.

A video demonstrating a conversation on the phone – leaving a message. With Greek subtitles.