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The "For Teachers" section of this website offers teachers a variety of tools for teaching about Greece in the classroom: background information on ancient and modern Greece, Curriculum Guides, Classroom Activities, Sources, Links, Book Titles, and topics valuable to exploring the world of the Greeks.


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Study Guides

Greek by Design: An Architecture Unit for American Studies, by David Tucker, Stoughton Public Schools, 2004 Greek Study Fellow, is a study guide that can be used to teach elements of Greek architecture and how they relate to buildings in our own communities.

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Resources

If called narcissistic, would a student understand the meaning? Do your students understand such commonly used words and phrases as an Achilles heel and the face that launched a thousand ships? Check out Greek Words and Phrases. And for a complete list of resources,

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Books for Students

  • Persephone has never been more beautiful nor Hades more selfish. Therein lies the roots of a life and death struggle in a tale so bleak that it seems like a winter that will never end, so far-reaching that the natural world might perish forever. Click here for this and other Homeric hymns translated by Penelope Proddow.
  • A house-sized wooden horse with warriors hidden inside, just waiting to spring a trap on an unsuspecting enemy. Click here for a complete list of beautiful books by Warwick Hutton, including The Trojan Horse, told with delicate, lyrical watercolor illustrations and engaging text.
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