Teachers' Companions

You are not alone... Bring educators from around the world into the classroom with you for support, ideas, and strategies for teaching the Classics. Here are just a few examples of what CTCWeb has to offer educators from other educators just like you in the
CTCWeb Consortium.

You can also sample some of the Showcase resources by clicking on any of the links below and do not forget to submit your own knowledge so CTCWeb's global audience can learn from you.

Teaching about Greek Men: Beyond the Confines of Traditional Academic Thought
by TammyJo Ekhart, Indiana University - Bloomington.
Eckhart describes both her research in preparation to teach a course entitled Ancient Greek Men: Gender and Sexuality and her experience teaching the course.

You really expect me to read all that Latin! - Strategies for Reading Latin Texts
by Caroline Kelly, Covenant Day School, NC.
Kelly discusses issues that students encounter when faced with a long Latin passage. To demonstrate to educators what challenges students tackle when reading long passages of Latin, Kelly provides a poem in Russian and encourages educators to use textual cues to decipher as much as they can about the text without actually translating it.

A Guided Tour of Ancient Egypt
by Darlene Bishop, Kent School District, Kent, WA.
A Guided Tour of Ancient Egypt covers over 1,500 years of ancient Egyptian history. Bishop provides brief but thorough explanations of ancient Egypt's culture and landscape, including Egyptian temples, tombs, pyramids, hieroglyphics, and even the nine stages of mummification. In addition, Bishop presents nine lesson plan ideas for use by educators at the primary and secondary school levels.

Latin Derivatives Exercises
by Marilee E. Osier, Sacopee Valley High School, ME. Two amusing stories are in Latin Derivatives Exercises. One is about Felix the Cat Burglar. The other is about Professor Horatio Porcius McGillicuddy. The first one is for beginning Latin students and the second is for Intermediate level students.

Ancient Olympics
by CTCWeb Editors. Because of the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia, CTCWeb editors thought you might want to learn more about the ancient Olympic games. Here you will find links to historical information that we collected about the history, origins, and events of the ancient Olympics.

Teacher's Companions
Teachers' Companions save teachers time because information from Perseus on various topics has been collected and organized for them. Each Companion includes:

• strategies for designing participatory classroom sessions;
• lab and out-of-class assignments;
• suggestions on making a good start by building student confidence;
• assignments for the high school and college levels;
• Path suggestions;
• start-up assignments; and
• bibliographical information