Lesson Plan for Mini-Lessons

Title: Greek Alphabet and Basic words
Date: October 21 2015
Grade Level: N/A
Prescribed Learning Outcomes: To teach students the 24-letter Greek Alphabet
General Purpose: This class will look at how to write out the letters of the Greek Alphabet, how to pronounce them, and a few basic words in Greek.
SWBAT: q Correctly pronounce all the letters in the Greek Alphabet. q Be able to read a few basic words in Greek.
Probing of previous knowledge: Students are not expected to have any formal training in Greek.  However, many of the Greek letters will be familiar to math students who have seen these letters used as variables.
Objective	Time	Activity	Materials
Introduction/hook	1 minute	Tell the students "good day" in Greek! Tell the students what I will be introducing to them.
Alphabet activity	5 minutes	With the students, go through the enter Greek Alphabet (all 24 letters) Write the letters on the board, and have the student write them out, while pronouncing them	·     paper and pencil
Explanation of friction	3 minutes	Write some basic Greek words on the board, and try to have the students read them out correctly. Note how close some Greek words come to English derivations of them!
Conclusion	1 minute	Present a Greek phrase to the students, taken from the inscription above Plato's Academy.  "Let no one who knows not geometry enter here!"  Read it out.
Summative Evaluation: By having all the students write out the 24 Greek letters, I know that all the students have thought about and applied their basic knowledge of Greek.  They can now present Greek letters with more confidence in a math classroom!
References: http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet