Intro to Europe / the week of Nov 3 - 7

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Beginning in November the curriculum calls for a 4-week study of Europe. No map or quiz this week.

But on Tues, Nov 4, according to my calendar, we will take a break for presidential voting.

My priorities in studying Europe include the following:

- Basic historic background, including . . .
* Greek golden age
* Roman empire
* Renaissance
* Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment
* British Empire
* WWI
* WWII
- Mental map of Western Europe.
- Products and resources of Europe.
- Relationship of Europe and the world.

Among the activities -
- skits on the lives of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
- a Paper Parthenon project
- the Paper Pantheon project
- Death of Gaius Julius Caesar toga party
- the Michelangelo and Da Vinci mural project
- La grand danse du Roi Soleil at Versailles
- Photos of the Industrial Revolution in Shreveport

Mapping -
1. Espana
- Madrid
- Seville
- Barcelona
2. France
- Paris
- Marseille
- Versailles
- Strasbourg
- Loire River
- Rhine River
3. Britain
- London
- Oxford & Cambridge
- Salisbury Plain / Stonehenge
- Wales
- Scotland
- Edinburgh
- Loch Ness
- Thames River
4. Deutschland
- Berlin
- Koln (Cologne)
- Munchen (Munich)
- Alps
- Danube River
5. Italy
- Roma
- Firenze (Florence)
- Milano
- Bologna
- Naples
- Pompeii
- Sicily
6. Greece
- Athens
- Sparta
- Olympia
- Aegean Sea
7. Eastern Europe