Alabama Social Studies SS24.7.15b
The Standard
- SS24.7.15
- Outline the key geographic, political, economic, and cultural elements of the Roman Republic.
Explain the social and cultural outcomes of economic activities within the Mediterranean region, including the establishment of colonies that influenced each other culturally.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how trade and new settlements changed daily life around the Mediterranean. They show how settlers and local communities influenced each other's food, art, and customs.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can trace a trade route between a Greek colony and a nearby community, then explain how a pottery design or food practice spread. They can name a change on each side, not just among local people.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think colonists settled on empty land or that only colonists influenced local people. They may also assume that finding a Greek pot means everyone nearby adopted Greek customs.
How to Assess It
- Use this exit ticket: “Greek settlers traded pottery for local grain in southern Italy. Name one way this exchange might change life for settlers and one way it might change life for local people.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a map of Greek colonies in southern Italy, goods cards, and yarn; have them mark trade routes and label one possible cultural change.
Ask: “If local potters copied Greek designs, did they stop making local styles? What might a pot with both styles tell us?”
Play a card sort matching Greek pottery, local grain, and colony ports to possible changes in art, diets, and settlements.
Show an imported olive oil label and a local recipe; ask how a traded food can become part of daily meals.
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