Women in Athens and Sparta DBQ

What's included

• Student DBQ packet: hook, background reading, Documents A–F with analysis questions, evidence organizer, bucketing and outline pages, C-E-R essay and 4-point rubric
• Scaffolded version with shorter excerpts, plain-words versions and sentence starters
• Teacher presentation with speaker notes, plus a teacher guide with standards, pacing, answer key and a sample essay

The documents

• Document A: Pericles' advice to widows
• Document B: An Athenian husband describes his wife
• Document C: How Sparta raised its girls
• Document D: Gorgo's answer
• Document E: Aristotle complains about Spartan women
• Document F: Who owned Sparta's land?

Document A: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Richard Crawley (1874), public domain. Documents B and C: Xenophon, The Economist and The Polity of the Lacedaemonians, trans. H. G. Dakyns (1897), public domain. Document D: Plutarch, Life of Lycurgus, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (1914), public domain. Documents E and F: Aristotle, Politics, trans. William Ellis, public domain.

Good to know

Class time

3 class periods

Format

Editable Google Slides

Answer key

Included

Standards: KAS Grade 6: 6.C.RR.1, 6.C.CV.1, 6.C.CP.3, 6.I.UE.1, 6.I.UE.2, 6.I.CC.1