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Level 2 Mythology

Mythology (Weekly)

A two year study of the three ancient epics by Homer and Virgil with classic retellings, while students study Ancient Greece and Rome in their history studies.

(N) * The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum

This classic retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey weaves together the Tale of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus into a delightful story.

(N) * The Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Alfred J.Church

A retelling of Virgil’s Aeneid.

Year One
  • Term 1: The Children’s Homer – Troy: Chapters 1 to 10
  • Term 2: The Children’s Homer – Troy: Chapters 11 to 20
  • Term 3: The Children’s Homer – Troy: Chapters 21 to 23; Odyssey: Chapters 1 to 7
Year Two
  • Term 1: The Children’s Homer – Odyssey: Chapters 8 to 17
  • Term 2: The Aeneid – The Horse of Wood to The Plots of Juno
  • Term 3: The Aeneid  – The Gathering of the Chiefs to Afterwards

Optional Further Reading: D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths by Edgar and Ingri D’Aulaire

Level 2 Year 1

Term 1: The Children’s Homer – Troy: Chapters 1 to 10

(N) * The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum

  1. Part I, Ch. I “This is the story…”
  2. Ch. II (2 wks) “One day as he sat sad…”
  3. Ch. II (cont.) “Thereupon Telemachus..”
  4. Ch. III “When Telemachus went back…”
  5. Ch. IV “As soon as it was dawn…”
  6. Ch. V “Telemachus went apart…”
  7. Ch. VI “Troy, the minstrel sang…”
  8. Ch. VII “The sun rose…”
  9. Ch. VIII “They came to Sparta…”
  10. Ch. IX “Said Menelaus…”
  11. Ch. X “His ship and his fellow…”
  12. Exam or Catch-up

Term 2: The Children’s Homer – Troy: Chapters 11 to 20

  1. Ch. XI “Achilles became…”
  2. Ch. XII “Such was the quarrel…”
  3. Ch. XIII “When dawn came…”
  4. Ch. XIV “Achilles, standing…”
  5. Ch. XV “Who was the first…”
  6. Ch. XVI “Now Thetis, the mother.”
  7. Ch. XVII “Then Achilles put his…”
  8. Ch. XVIII “So much of the story…”
  9. Ch. XIX “King Priam on his tower…”
  10. Ch. XX “Now that Hector was dead…”
  11. Catch-up
  12. Exams

Term 3: The Children’s Homer – Troy: Chapters 21 to 23; Odyssey: Chapters 1 to 7

  1. Ch. XXI “Now Hector’s sister was…”
  2. Ch. XXII “For many days Telemachus..”
  3. Ch. XXIII “Now the goddess…”
  4. Odyssey Ch. I “Ever mindful…”
  5. Odyssey Ch. II “And while he rested…”
  6. Odyssey Ch. III “About that time that…”
  7. Odyssey Ch. IV “Then Odysseus…”
  8. Odyssey Ch. V “We came to the island…”
  9. Odyssey Ch. VI ”When the sun sank…”
  10. Odyssey Ch. VII “Odysseus finished…”
  11. Catch up
  12. Exams or catch up

The Children’s Homer continues in Level 2 Year 2

Level 2 Year 2

Term 1: The Children’s Homer – Odyssey: Chapters 8 to 17

  1. Part II, Ch VIII, “Near the place…”
  2. Ch VIII continued, Story of Eumaeus
  3. Ch IX “On the morning of his fourth…”
  4. Ch X “It was time for Tele- machus…”
  5. Ch XI “There was in Ithaca…”
  6. Ch XII “To Telemachus..”  –“And what..”
  7. Ch XII continued, “Said Odysseus…”
  8. Ch XIII, “All night Odysseus lay…”
  9. Ch XIV, “In the treasure- chamber…”
  10. Ch XV, “It is ended…”
  11. Ch XVI, “Eurycleia, the old nurse..”
  12. Exam or Catch up

Term 2:  The Aeneid – The Horse of Wood to The Plots of Juno

The Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church

  1. Ch. 1, Horse of Wood
  2. Ch. 2, Sack of Troy
  3. Ch. 3, Aeneas & Anchises
  4. Ch. 4, Of the Voyage of Aeneas
  5. Ch. 5, The Voyage of Aeneas (cont)
  6. Ch. 6, The Shipwreck, 1/2 Ch. 7, Carthage
  7. 1/2 Ch. 7, Carthage, Ch. 8, Dido
  8. Ch. 9, Funeral Games of Anchises
  9. Ch. 10, Burning of Ships/Italy
  10. Ch. 11, In Italy
  11. Ch. 12, The Plots of Juno
  12. Exams or catch up

Term 3: The Aeneid  – The Gathering of the Chiefs to Afterwards

  1. Ch. 13, Gathering of the Chiefs
  2. Ch. 14, King Evander
  3. Ch. 15, Arms of Aeneas
  4. Ch. 16, Nisus and Euryalus
  5. Ch. 17, The Battle at the Camp
  6. Ch. 18, The Battle on the Shore
  7. Ch. 19. The Council
  8. Ch. 21, Deeds & Death of Camilla
  9. Ch. 22, The Broken Treaty
  10. Ch. 23, The Death of Turnus
  11. Ch. 24, Afterwards
  12. Exams or catch up
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