The Many Sides of Alexander the Great

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area: History and Social Science
Grade: 7

You are a historian studying how bias can be introduced into historical accounts. Your task is to study articles about Alexander the Great and analyze how the authors use different evidence or interpretations of facts to support their claims about this historical figure.

MA Standards

HSS.7.T4b.05

Analyze the causes, and consequences of the Persian Wars between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire (490-480 BCE), the Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta (431-404 BCE), and the conquests of Alexander the Great in Asia (c.336-331BCE).

RI.7.9

Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.

Resources

Task Template (PDF) PDF · 177 KB
Task Template (Word) DOCX · 1.59 MB
Student Directions PPTX · 1.85 MB
Rubric DOCX · 1.54 MB
Web Graphic Organizer PPTX · 281 KB
PA Checklist DOCX · 301 KB
Article Cover Template PPTX · 370 KB
Paragraph Frame (printable) PPTX · 35 KB
Paragraph Frame (digital) DOCX · 302 KB
Writing Checklist DOCX · 55.3 KB
Article 1 - Mr Dowling DOCX · 5.85 MB
Article 2 - Alexander the Appalling NewsELA PDF · 1.39 MB
Article 3 - Actively Learn PDF · 780 KB
Article 4 - Alexander the Great as a God PDF · 197 KB
Article 5 - Alexander and Aristotle Totally History PDF · 256 KB

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