About this worksheet
A reading passage on daily life in ancient Athens, written for Year 5. It describes mud-brick houses built around a courtyard, boys at school and the palaestra, girls taught at home in the women's quarters, the agora as market and meeting place, and voting on the Pnyx. Eight questions follow. Five are retrieval questions, including a true or false table on who could vote. Two ask for inferences, and the last compares schools and voting in Britain today with Athens. The answer pages give a model answer for every question. It suits the England National Curriculum study of Ancient Greece and works as a KS2 reading text too.
