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
- Part I, Ch. I “This is the story…”
- Ch. II (2 wks) “One day as he sat sad…”
- Ch. II (cont.) “Thereupon Telemachus..”
- Ch. III “When Telemachus went back…”
- Ch. IV “As soon as it was dawn…”
- Ch. V “Telemachus went apart…”
- Ch. VI “Troy, the minstrel sang…”
- Ch. VII “The sun rose…”
- Ch. VIII “They came to Sparta…”
- Ch. IX “Said Menelaus…”
- Ch. X “His ship and his fellow…”
- Exam or Catch-up
Term 2: The Children’s Homer – Troy: Chapters 11 to 20
- Ch. XI “Achilles became…”
- Ch. XII “Such was the quarrel…”
- Ch. XIII “When dawn came…”
- Ch. XIV “Achilles, standing…”
- Ch. XV “Who was the first…”
- Ch. XVI “Now Thetis, the mother.”
- Ch. XVII “Then Achilles put his…”
- Ch. XVIII “So much of the story…”
- Ch. XIX “King Priam on his tower…”
- Ch. XX “Now that Hector was dead…”
- Catch-up
- Exams
Term 3: The Children’s Homer – Troy: Chapters 21 to 23; Odyssey: Chapters 1 to 7
- Ch. XXI “Now Hector’s sister was…”
- Ch. XXII “For many days Telemachus..”
- Ch. XXIII “Now the goddess…”
- Odyssey Ch. I “Ever mindful…”
- Odyssey Ch. II “And while he rested…”
- Odyssey Ch. III “About that time that…”
- Odyssey Ch. IV “Then Odysseus…”
- Odyssey Ch. V “We came to the island…”
- Odyssey Ch. VI ”When the sun sank…”
- Odyssey Ch. VII “Odysseus finished…”
- Catch up
- 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
- Part II, Ch VIII, “Near the place…”
- Ch VIII continued, Story of Eumaeus
- Ch IX “On the morning of his fourth…”
- Ch X “It was time for Tele- machus…”
- Ch XI “There was in Ithaca…”
- Ch XII “To Telemachus..” –“And what..”
- Ch XII continued, “Said Odysseus…”
- Ch XIII, “All night Odysseus lay…”
- Ch XIV, “In the treasure- chamber…”
- Ch XV, “It is ended…”
- Ch XVI, “Eurycleia, the old nurse..”
- 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
- Ch. 1, Horse of Wood
- Ch. 2, Sack of Troy
- Ch. 3, Aeneas & Anchises
- Ch. 4, Of the Voyage of Aeneas
- Ch. 5, The Voyage of Aeneas (cont)
- Ch. 6, The Shipwreck, 1/2 Ch. 7, Carthage
- 1/2 Ch. 7, Carthage, Ch. 8, Dido
- Ch. 9, Funeral Games of Anchises
- Ch. 10, Burning of Ships/Italy
- Ch. 11, In Italy
- Ch. 12, The Plots of Juno
- Exams or catch up
Term 3: The Aeneid – The Gathering of the Chiefs to Afterwards
- Ch. 13, Gathering of the Chiefs
- Ch. 14, King Evander
- Ch. 15, Arms of Aeneas
- Ch. 16, Nisus and Euryalus
- Ch. 17, The Battle at the Camp
- Ch. 18, The Battle on the Shore
- Ch. 19. The Council
- Ch. 21, Deeds & Death of Camilla
- Ch. 22, The Broken Treaty
- Ch. 23, The Death of Turnus
- Ch. 24, Afterwards
- Exams or catch up
