Ancient Greece Lapbook

While we completed our Ancient Greece unit study a while ago, I never posted pictures of one of the children's lapbooks. This post features my 7th grade daughter's lapbook. My daughter particularly enjoys putting together her lapbooks in Legal Size Classification Folders. The classification folders are a bit pricey but they do make a very nice finished project.

On the front cover is the very first section of an Ancient Greece timeline from Milliken. The rest of the timeline is tucked in a pocket inside the lapbook. During our Ancient Greece unit study, the timeline was displayed on a bulletin board in our schoolroom. On the left side of the first two-page spread, is the drawing that my daughter completed of Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns. On the right side are two mini-books from the Ancient Greece Project Pack from Hands of a Child (The Parthenon and The Dark Ages) and one from the Ancient Greece History Pockets book by Evan-Moor (The Olympic Torch). All of the mini-books on this two-page spread come from the Ancient Greece Project Pack from Hands of a Child.Included on the left side are four mini-books: Ancient Greece World Impact, Philosophers, 4 types of government, and a mini-book contrasting a boy's life in Athens with a boy's life in Sparta.On the right side are mini-books about Playwrights, Symposiums, City-States, and Drama.On the left side, my daughter has fastened a 3-pronged folder filled with written assignments from the unit study. On the right side is a layered look book of our own creation about social structure in Ancient Athens, a mini-book about weddings in Ancient Greece (Ancient Greece History Pockets), and a library pocket filled with index cards about the Ancient Greek gods (Ancient Greece History Pockets). Inside the 3-pronged folder are all of the independent writing assignments that my daughter completed during the unit study. She wrote paragraphs about:

• The Minoans
• The Mycenaeans
• The Dark Ages
• Egyptians and Greeks
• Changes in the Greek form of Government
• Food in Ancient Greece
• Phalanx
• The End of the Trojan War
• Styles of Sculpture
• The Peloponnesian War
• The Three Main Empires After Alexander's Death

Following those pages are the reading comprehension sheets that my daughter completed over the books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Black Ships Before Troy and the Wanderings of Odysseus. Following these pages are some pages copied from Ancient Greece History Pockets.The layered look mini-book about Social Structure in Ancient Greece included information about slaves, metics, women, and free male citizens. I wrote more about writing in this mini-book with my children here. Most of the adorable graphics in this mini-book come from this free graphics site from Philip Martin. On the back of the classification folder is the sign and advertisement that my daughter made for her fictional booth at the Ancient Greek Agora.