Ancient Greek History BUNDLE Reading Passages and Writing Tasks

Build literacy skills while your students learn about ancient Greek civilization with this BUNDLE of reading passages and writing activities. Students will read about four important eras in the history of Ancient Greece: the Minoans and Mycenaeans, the Archaic Age, the Golden (Classical) Age, and the Macedonian Empire. After reading, students will practice writing about what they have learned using a variety of strategies at sentence and paragraph levels.

This resource includes:

• Five pages of reading passages, including short writing tasks on each page to support comprehension and highlight sentence types.
• 19 pages of writing activities.
• Teacher's guide and suggested answers to all activities, including model paragraphs.

Writing skills covered include:

• Unscrambling sentences
• Writing questions and answers
• Identifying and correcting sentence fragments and run-on sentences
• Using transition phrases
• Using appositives
• Paragraph outlining
• Revising/editing paragraphs
• Writing topic and concluding sentences
• Writing about other people's ideas
• Compare and contrast sentences and paragraphs: Athens vs Sparta
• Pro and con paragraphs: Was Alexander the Great really great?

All parts of this resource are provided as printable PDF worksheets, and the resource can also be used on Easel!

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