What are the thesis and main points of Eric Cline’s argument? What evidence does he use to support his thesis?
Which author — Aristophanes or Sophocles — has a more positive view of women? Give specific examples form the Lysistrata and Antigone to support your answer.
What does Herodotus see as the strengths and weaknesses of the three forms of government that he describes? Reading between the lines, which one does he think is best? Which one does he think is the worst?
How are Athenian direct democracy and American representative democracy similar or different? Athens built an empire from the Delian League in the fifth century BCE. What does this tell us about the nature of Athens’ direct democracy and who was allowed to participate in it?
Specs for discussion forum answers:

Length: 100 words per answer
Quotations: No more than 5 words can be quoted in your combined discussion forum answers and replies for the entire module
Content: Thorough grasp of assigned materials, thoughtful reflection on discussion questions, and specific details from assigned materials to support each answer
Completion: Only answers found in your first post in each discussion forum will be graded
Plagiarism: Both paraphrasing plagiarism and outside source plagiarism will result in a zero
Grammar: A good-faith effort to write in complete sentences with proper spelling, capitalization, and punctuation
Subject line: last name, module X
Formatting: Each question answered in a separate paragraph, in the order which the questions are listed. See requirements handout for details on what you need to do if you are cutting and pasting your answers from another file into Blackboard.
Specs for discussion forum replies:

Length: 3 academically substantive sentences
Quotations: No more than 5 words can be quoted in your combined discussion forum answers and replies for the entire module
Content: Each reply must contribute a new and academically substantive idea, focusing on a single discussion forum answer offered by a classmate
Distribution: Each reply must be in response to a different one of the discussion questions. Each reply must be on a thread created by a different classmate
Tone: Replies must be courteous and respectful
Plagiarism: Both paraphrasing plagiarism and outside source plagiarism will result in a zero
Grammar: A good-faith effort to write in complete sentences with proper spelling, capitalization, and punctuation
Formatting: See requirements handout for details on what you need to do if you are cutting and pasting your replies from another file into Blackboard.