Weekly Quizzes and Responses

15%

• Short, 5-minute in-class quizzes and weekly online responses.
• Both are based on the assigned readings for the week.
• In-class quizzes take place at the start of our class meetings and are not made up, so it is important to arrive on time and prepared.

Essay on Clouds

10%

• 3-to-4 page essay on Aristophanes’s Clouds.

Position Paper

25%

• 6-to-8 page term paper using evidence from primary and secondary sources to take a position on a research topic of your choice relating to ancient Greece.

Presentation and Write-Up on a Primary Source (2)

20%

• In-class presentation on two of the assigned primary sources (one in the first half of the semester, and one in the second).
• A written version is due a week after your presentation.

Final Exam

30%

• End-of-term in-class final exam.