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Antoinette Brazouski
Northern Illinois University
Course
Classical Mythology: Honors FLCL 271H 3 semester hours
The honors component of Classical Mythology is intended to give students
a deeper understanding of the subject and its relationship to other academic
areas such as art, music, and psychology. Each student must complete a project
that involves reading one or more pieces of Ancient Greek and/or Roman literature
in translation.
Description
This module stresses the need for review as an aid to learning. It suggests that
various types of technology may be used as tools for review of material learned.
Because mastery of Ancient Greek and Roman mythology involves the memorization
of many names and specific details, frequent review is necessary. At the beginning of
each class that continues the lesson of the previous class, briefly review the material
covered in the previous class. Whenever the teacher notes by the expressions on their
faces that a majority of the class members do not recognize a name, the teacher should
either identify the character or, better, ask who in the class can and then let that
student do so. Encourage the students to ask as soon as possible about anything that
they do not understand. Integrate some review into the last lesson of a unit.
For example, slides pertinent to the unit might be shown. Slides on a PowerPoint
presentation work well. An effective exercise to review the major heroes is to match
items in a list of objects, characters, and places to the hero with whom each is associated.
(Some items may apply to more than one hero, e.g., Argo to Jason and Heracles.)
View the attached "Review".
Transferability
This module could be used in a literature class. The basic methods of review discussed
in this module can be used in almost any course.
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