Humanitas Ancient Greece Teacher's Guide

The Humanitas: Ancient Greece Teacher's Guide (PDF), designed to accompany the one-semester, high school Humanitas: Ancient Greece history course, offers teachers further resources for understanding the texts included in Humanitas: Ancient Greece.

The guide supplies teachers with

• lesson objectives and plans
• a symposium section that provides additional information and context for the source document
• a warm-up activity or discussion
• questions for discussion and writing (taken from the student edition and provided for easy reference)
• a conclusion that provides additional insight into the source document and its context
• Teacher's Tips that point to specific portions of the source document, providing additional context for the source documents and suggesting points of discussion

Unlike most contemporary approaches to history, which reflect the fashions and biases of the fleeting present, the Humanitas series offers students something more substantial. Following C. S. Lewis’s stout defense of reading primary sources in “On the Reading of Old Books,” Humanitas will help “persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but it is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire." Geared toward history, humanities, and humane letters courses, the Humanitas series offers a continuous, unfolding narrative of Western Civilization through a series of carefully curated primary source documents.