Dateline: Troy |
Publication Information
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Author: Fleischman, Paul |
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Title: Dateline: Troy |
Date: 1996 |
Publisher: Candlewick Press |
City: Cambridge, MA |
ISBN, paperback: 1-56402-469-5 |
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
legends, tales and myths
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HSE Descriptor(s):
language arts - reading
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Summary: |
A compelling retelling of the Trojan War story is juxtaposed with newspaper clippings (WWI--Gulf War). The clippings help to develop context for the story. They also reveal powerful parallels between the world of Homer's Iliad and our own. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This book is for GED-level learners, and teachers will probably want to include instructional support activities as well. Students may want to create story maps. Response activities (discussion or writing) might focus on "then and now." Students could 1) select a major character, describe him/her, decide if this type of person is still around; 2) develop a comparison/contrast chart focusing on characteristics of gods/goddesses and humans; 3) prepare a matrix contrasting the Trojans, the Greeks, the deities (e.g., what motivated them? what were their good deeds? the results?); or 4) develop a timeline for the current events or the Trojan War.
www.login.com/myth/content/html, http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html |
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