Name: ______Period: ______Date: ______

Sparta or Athens: Where Would You Rather Live?

You are to choose whether you would rather live in Sparta or Athens. You must set up a campaign to enlist as many new people as possible to join your city-state. Create a visual display that persuadesothers, including arguments with supporting evidence, as to why they should live in your city-state and not in the other. Visuals may be done in the form a brochure, advertisement, commercial, etc.

Requirements/Checklist:

_____1.You must include a creative sloganon the front of the display

_____2. You must includeat least 10different and accurate reasonsas to why newcomers should choose your city-state and not the other. Your reasons mustserve as evidence showing the contrast between the concepts of both city-states.

*In order to earn full-credit for this section of the assignment, 1 of your 10 different and accurate reasons should be on government,1 must focus on children and education, 1 should be on the role of men, and another 1 should be geared towards the role of women in your city-state. You cannot receive full-credit for this section unless these requirements are met!

Example:You should buy food at Wegman’s instead of Giant because Wegman’s has a variety of choices in their numerous hot and cold bars whereas Giant just has a salad bar with a few hot items.

*You will lose 1 point for each reason that is either missing details or is just a fact that does not serve as evidence to support your campaign (arguments).

_____3. You must includeat least 10different relevant pictures with captions(Your captions can be your reasons as described above.)

_____4. You must include colorin at least half of the poster.

_____5. You must have your rubric when submitting your completed project. It will be a deduction of one point if the rubric is not attached to your final product.

Resources: Sparta vs. Athens Guided Notes, Class Textbook, Library Materials

*You will be required to cite all pictures from online resources and at least 1 other research resource in the form of an MLA Works Cited, not including your class guided notes and textbook. You will receive a separate grading rubric for this part of the project.

Scoring Rubric:

3 / 2 / 1
Reasons/
Evidence
*Check requirements / Includes at least 10 accurate and differentreasons why newcomers should choose your ancient Greek city-state. / Includes at least 7-9accurateand differentreasons why newcomers should choose your ancient Greek city-state. / Includes at least 1-6accurate and differentreasons why newcomers should choose your ancient Greek city-state.
Contrast / ALL evidence shows the contrast between the concepts of both city-states. / At least one piece ofevidence is missing the contrast between the concepts of both city-states. / Two or more pieces ofevidence are missing contrasts between the concepts of both city-states.
Accuracy / ALLevidence is accurate and items of content are related to ancient Greece. / At least one error in accuracy of evidence and/or item of content is unrelated to ancient Greece. / Two or more errors in accuracy of evidence and/or items of content are unrelated to ancient Greece.
Mechanics / Allgrammar, spelling, and/or other mechanics are correct. / There are 1-3 errors in grammar, spelling and/or other mechanics. / There are 4 or more errors in grammar, spelling, and/or other mechanics.
Pictures/
Drawings / Includes at least 10 differentrelevantpictures or drawings. / Includes at least 7-9different relevant pictures or drawings. / Includes 1-6different relevant pictures or drawings.
Captions / ------/ ALLpictures include a relevant caption. / 1 or more pictures are missing captions and/or have one or more errors in relevancy.
Slogan / ------/ Creative slogan/title is included and is completely relevant to your ancient Greek city-state. / Title states just “Athens” or just “Sparta” and/or the slogan/title is somewhat relevant to your ancient Greek city-state.
Color / ------/ ------/ At least half of the poster includes color.

Column totals: ______

TOTAL SCORE:______X5=____ /100