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The Persian Wars

This week year 6 have been learning about the Persian wars which where a series of conflicts between the Persian Empire and the Greek city states between during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. These were important onflicts in the golden age of Greece as they established Athens as the dominant power in Greece.

The Persian Empire was a super-power in the Eastern Mediterranean. Based in modern-day Iran, the Persian Empire stretched from Greece to Egypt to Pakistan.

In the sixth century BC, the Persian Empire came in to conflict with the Greek City states when they invaded and took control of the Ionian Greek cities. This was the start of the first Greco-Persian war.

To see all of the major events of the First Persian war, click below to download.

Events of the first persian war in order

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DSC00993This week year 6 have been bringing together all of their learning about Greek storytelling to plan and write their own Greek Tragedies .

We thought carefully about the Greek stories and what they had in common, then we created our own Tragic story structures based on the events  that happened in these stories.

 

  1. Beginning: the main character and setting is introduced.
  2. The ‘good deeds’ : the reader is shown the ‘goodness’ of the main character through their deeds.
  3. Pride grows: The main character begins to feel prideful about a skill or quality that they have. Here we see events that show the character is changing.
  4. The warning : Here the main character receives a warning about their pride, vanity or stubbornness. Sometimes there is no explicit warning, but an opportunity to change
  5. The final act of hubris: Here we see the character ignore the warning that has been given to them  and their fate is sealed.
  6. Punishment: the main character is punished for their pride, vanity or stubbornness.

Our own stories feature vain playwrights, arrogant warriors, stubborn hunters and greedy fishermen.

We have also been considering tragedies written after the Ancient Greek era. Macbeth is a truly tragic tale of the rise and demise of a Scottish thane.  During our reading of this story, there has been much debate about the role of fate, hubris and greed.