Patrick Brissey

EDTE 731

Dr. Dickey

 

Students studying World History learn of the sudden rise of Greek civilization, its polytheistic religion, government, art, literature, but rarely do students study ancient Greeks contributions to modern modes of intellectual thought.Ê The philosophical explanations of the Greeks are important to modern thinking, especially modern science. Greek Intellectual thought is the theme of this online portfolio.Ê I use this theme to attempt to expose students to the contributions of the Greeks to intellectual thought.Ê By intellectual thought I mean, specifically, the Greek contributions to math, science, literature, and philosophy.Ê It is my particular purpose to present the Greek creation of philosophy.  In the disciplines of math, science, and literature, I only look at them in a philosophical manner.  That is, in the discipline of mathematics it is not my purpose to purport any mathematical proofs of Pythagoras or any mathematical technicalities that he may have presented.  It is my purpose to show a general, contribution of mathematics to ancient Greek civilization and hope students will understand how mathematics has influenced contemporary society.

I expect the material in this presentation to be somewhat challenging to even senior high school students.Ê The material is presented with some sections with very simplistic ideas that can be understood by average freshmen high school students and other, more complicated, ideas that can be challenging for seniors. ÊOf course, this presentation presumes that there is a considerable amount of previous knowledge of Greek civilization. This project would most probably be conducted concluding a unit on Greek society.Ê The ideas presented are in no way comprehensive of ancient Greek thought.Ê Moreover, it is not expected that the student read over every page of the presentation.Ê The student chooses his or her path and analyzes this path in the assessment portion of the project.

 

 

 

                                                                          

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