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The Odyssey in PowerPoint — A 9th Grade English Project
By Elizabeth Craig-Olins, English Teacher, Newton North High School, Newton Public Schools, Newton, MA, 1999 ExL Greek Study Fellow
For all the budding producers in your classroom, this study guide has it all: oral storytelling, interpretive reading, study of the Odyssey, visual interpretation, research, writing, vocal interpretation, music appreciation, graphic design, fine art, and multimedia design and production. It's a fantastic and challenging 2-part project — one part writing assignment, one part visual assignment — that involves a variety of activities and learning experiences that take students from reading and studying the Odyssey, to researching and writing about mythological gods or characters, and culminates with students putting it all together in interactive educational PowerPoint presentations designed to teach others what they've learned. Check it out.
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- Greek Studies in Elementary
Art Rooms: Fables, Figurines, Theater Masks, Architecture
Mary Coughlan, Waltham Public Schools, MA
- “Sing in me, Muse”: Homer’s Odyssey: A Book Group Model
Bonnie Sue Carton, Brookline Public Schools, MA
- Early Greece Resources CD
Chuck Bunting, Newton Public Schools, MA
- Introducing Olympian Gods and Goddesses: An Integrated
Study
Connie Carven, Newton Public Schools, MA
- Mythology Project
Geri Belle, Brookline Public Schools, MA
- Socrates: The Movie
David Moore, Newton Public Schools, MA
- Impact of Greek Studies Program
Haley Blackow, The Pike School, Andover, MA
- A God in the Pocket: Creating an Original and Fun Book
Steven Rae, Brookline Public Schools
- The Theater As Social and Moral Commentary
Cleo Syph, Newton Public Schools
- Ancient Greek History Coordinated with later Historical
Periods
Donna J. Fairbank, Waltham Public Schools
- The Greek Labs: Effect of Acid Rain on Marble, and Other
Exercises
Richard T. McKnight, Waltham Public Schools
- Roman Corinth: Daily Life in a Roman City in Greece
Barbara Scotto, Brookline Public Schools
- Ancient Greece: A Power Point Presentation
Richard Ballou and Patricia Peck, Newton Public Schools
- The Further Adventures of Megalopolis Man: Making a Comic
Book
John Hacker Waltham Public Schools, Cleo Syph and Jennifer
Landers, Newton Public Schools
- Greek Studies: A Partnership Model Between Public and Charter
Schools
Catherine C.O’Flaherty, South Boston Harbor
Sonya McKnight, Waltham, Public Schools
- Teaching the Odyssey, http://www.think2learn.com/odyssey
Sondra M. Hamilton, Wellesley Public Schools
- Apollo’s Point of View:
The Study of Greece Through Music
Gina DePaoli, Waltham Public Schools
- The Development of the Greek Temple
Jack O’Keefe, Newton Public Schools
- Greek Vases: A Fourth Grade Art Curriculum
Ronnie Haarmann, Pike School, Andover
- The Olympic Games
in Antiquity
Nancy Conviser and Kim LeQuire
- Greek Gods and Goddesses:
Trading Cards
Sandra A. Gardner, Waltham Public Schools
- Making the Odyssey Accessible To All
Diane Campbell, Suzanne Chmielinski, Susan Hirsh, Wellesley
Public Schools
- A Greek Decathlon
Jeanne Penrod, Waltham Public Schools
- Children’s Literature and Greek Mythology
Christine Gately, Waltham Public Schools
- Greek Tragedy, “The
Spirt of Inquiry Meets the Spirit of Poetry and Tragedy
is Born”
Ronna Frick, Wellesley Public Schools
- The Olympics in Ancient Greece
Maureen Devlin, Brookline Public Schools
- The Spartans: A Second Look
Debbie D’Amico, Brookline Public Schools
- Playing with Homer: A Playwriting Activity Based
on Books 9-12 of the Odyssey
Annice Kra and Kathe Langberg, Newton Public Schools
- Architecture
Eleanor Demott, Brookline Public Schools
- The Olympic Games in Antiquity
Nancy Conviser, Brookline Public Schools, and Kim LeQuire,
Newton Public Schools
- A Site of Sites: An Online Resource of Greek Archaeological
Sites
Emil Penarubia
- The Trojan War: Images in Art
Jennifer Piccioli, Newton Public Schools
- A Feast of Books
Barbara Scotto, Brookline Public Schools, and Cathy O’Flaherty,
Boston Public Schools
- Greek Mythological Creatures and Art
Lauryl Anne Jacobs
- Learning About Ancient Greece: A Greek
Festival for Primary Students
Johanna Roses
- Greek Revival Architecture in Nineteenth
Century America: Using Architecture to RedefineLife and
Death in the City
Richard Goldberg
- Journey, the Second Grade Odyssey
Eris Doorneweerd and Lilia Levitina, Brookline Public
Schools
- What Is So Great about Alexander the Great?
Michele Karol and David Nichols, Wellesley Public Schools
- Using Technology to Support Teachers to Integrate Greek
Studies: Connecting Greek and U.S. Democracy
Heather Hurley
- It’s Greek to Me
Karen Kosko, Cambridge Public Schools
- Discover the Greeks,
Kathy May, Waltham Public Schools
- The Examined Life: Excerpts from Three Plays to
Illustrate Theories of Freud, Erikson and Kohlberg,
Elizabeth
Collins, Waltham Public Schools
- Biological and Chemical Warfare in Ancient Greece:
What Would You Do?
Priscilla Leach, Wellesley Public Schools
- Mining the Myths
Joan Hamilton and Cheryl Klausner, Brookline Public Schools
- Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Heroines
David Lawton, The Park School, Brookline Public Schools
- Ancient Greek Sanctuaries: A Multidisciplinary Approach
to Ancient Greece
Danielle Conway, Phyllis Kalowski, Marjorie Berger, Jane
Flynn, Cambridge Public Schools
- Producing and Ancient Greek Play
Michael Roth, Brookline Public Schools
- Interpreting Greek Mythology in Roman Epic
Madelyn Gonnerman, Brookline Public Schools
- Making Mythology Come to Life
Rachel Kramer, Cindy Marchand, Barbara Laites-Collins,
Newton Public Schools
- Physics Applied to Classical and Modern Architecture
Paul Martenis, Newton Public Schools
- The Logic and Rhetoric of Exposition
Carol Mellett and Molly Murphy, Brookline, MA
- Interactive
Video Lectures from Greece!
Ted Wells, The Park School, Brookline
- International Kid
Connection
Jonathan Rabinowitz, Wellesley Public Schools
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