Review
The study of mythology offers students at the junior high level an experience in which they can stretch the imagination and simultaneously sharpen reading, writing, and speaking skills. Teaching and Dramatizing Greek Myths offers a novel approach to this popular subject--an approach which keeps students doing--using reading as a springboard to drama and to other activities designed to extend thinking skills.
Davidson, a literature teacher for many years, first dramatized a popular myth when she found little available to help her reinforce learning in a creative way. Her unique resource book contains dramatizations of a number of the most popular myths, including the Golden Fleece, Perseus, the Odyssey, and Daedalus. Five love stories and two adventure stories are also presented as one act plays.
Students read the plays first and discuss the literal interpretation, then answer questions involving inferences and creative thinking. Each section includes teachers' notes, transparency masters for making maps, activites and discussion questions, puzzles, a Mytho game (a quiz game like bingo), and tests with answer keys.
The dramatizations may take place on stage or as puppet shows. The scripts are flexible, limiting the number of players on stage at any one time to six, although there may be numerous parts. The author even includes plans for building a puppet theater.
Mythology is a high interest subject for students in grades 7, 8, and 9, and the plays and activites have also been used successfully with 5th and 6th graders. Davidson's creative approach makes the study of these classics a memorable experience for students and keeps them interested and occupied long after their interest in just plain reading has worn off. -- Publisher Comments
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About the Author
Josephine Davidson is a native of New York, but grew up in Northern California. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds a California Standard Life Teaching Credential. She taught 7th, 8th, and 9th grades for 23 years in California and Texas. Her favorite subjects to teach were Greek Mythology and Debating.
Since contracting polio in 1954, Josephine has used a wheelchair. She is married to chemical engineering consultant Peter Davidson. They have two grown children and five grandchildren. The Davidsons have lived in New York, California, Texas, Illinois, Washington State, and the Middle East.
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