{"id":135036,"date":"2016-12-08T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=135036"},"modified":"2024-02-19T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T12:32:38","slug":"early-forms-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2016\/12\/08\/early-forms-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Early forms of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students in grade 7 have been learning about the legacy of Ancient Greece, and our focus this week was on the process of democracy. We held a mock assembly meeting to discuss issues relevant to both Ancient Greece and today. Students had to develop a position, memorize it, and speak it in front of the assembly. Unfortunately, according to the rules of the assembly, they couldn&#8217;t speak more than once, which was a sore trial for some of them. They seem to like the chance for public speaking, and we will be doing more of it in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in grade 7 have been learning about the legacy of Ancient Greece, and our focus this week was on the process of democracy. We held a mock assembly meeting to discuss issues relevant to both Ancient Greece and today. Students had to develop a position, memorize it, and speak it in front of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,192,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-7","category-myp","category-secondary-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}