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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.

• The Odyssey in PowerPoint
  Grade 9 English
  By Elizabeth Craig-Olins, Newton Public Schools, Newton, MA

• The Oral Tradition vs. the Script
  Elementaty Drama, Storytelling
  By Kate Kelly Adamson, Waltham Public Schools, MA

• How to Paint a Minoan Mural on Your Classroom or School Wall
  Middle School Art
  By Christine Vaillancourt, Newton Public Schools, MA

• How to Set Up and Run a Classroom Museum
  Grade 5-8 English
  By Josh Lawrence, Boston Public Schools, MA

• The Hero's Shield — Heroes and What Makes Them Heroic
  Middle School History
  By Al Garnache, Waltham Public Schools, MA

• Dance the Syrtos — Teaching a Traditional Greek Folk Dance
  Elementary School Dance, Physical Education
  By Margaret P. Flitsch, Wellesley Public Schools, MA

• Timeline of Greek History
  Grade 4-5 Social Studies
  By Diane Holzheimer, Newton Public Schools, MA

• An Introduction to Greek Theater — Teaching Inference as a Reading Strategy
  Grade 7 Social Studies
  By Sheila Dugan, Newton Public Schools, MA

• Meet the Greek Gods and Goddesses
  Grade 1-2 Reading, Art
  By Marcia Lynch and Amy Neale, Brookline Public Schoolls, MA

• Greek by Design — An Architecture Unit for American Studies
  Grade 11-12 English
  By David Tucker, Stoughton Public Schools, MA
  

Study Guides In Production
If you are interested in any of the following curriculum projects and would like to get an advance copy, or contact the teacher who developed it, please email Connie Carven, Teacher Specialist and Liaison with School Districts, or call her at 781-405-6094.

• 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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