← All family units
Ancient Greece
Where the arguments we are still having got started.
2 weeks
The same topic, four ways
Grades 3 to 5
City states, the Olympics, and what a citizen was.
🌍 Social Studies📚 Reading
Grades 6 to 8
Democracy in Athens, and who was left out of it.
🌍 Social Studies✏️ Writing
Grades 9 to 10
Read a fragment of Plato and argue with it.
📚 Reading✏️ Writing🌍 Social Studies
Build it together: The family assembly
What you need
- a real household decision
- something to vote with
Steps
- Pick a decision the family actually has to make this week.
- Everyone gets to speak once, uninterrupted, oldest last.
- Vote. The result stands.
- Afterwards: who was not in the room, and would that have changed it?