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Cambridge School Classics Project

Cambridge School Classics Project. Ovid ’ s Tales of Change. Question : is a god still a god if nobody worships him/her?. School Context. Kingsmead School: 11-18 comprehensive near Cannock, South Staffordshire. Student population: approximately 1300.

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Cambridge School Classics Project

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  1. Cambridge School Classics Project Ovid’s Tales of Change

  2. Question: is a god still a god if nobody worships him/her?

  3. School Context • Kingsmead School: 11-18 comprehensive near Cannock, South Staffordshire. • Student population: approximately 1300. • Socially and economically diverse demographic. • Ovid’s Tales of Change currently being taught to Year 7.

  4. Curiosity and inquiring minds: starting the lesson. • Which is better, forethought or afterthought? • Which is heavier, mortality or immortality? • If you could take away one emotion from the world, which one would it be?

  5. Learning objectives: • To understand and select information from texts; • To infer and interpret language from texts; • To identify and comment on effects of language. Connect: If this is the answer, what could the question be?

  6. Connect: • When you love yourself, does your self know that you love it? • If you could take away one emotion, which would it be?

  7. Thunks and Thinking Keys • A bridge between what students know and what they are going to learn. • Moving away from the ‘banking’ concept of learning with students as objects. • Facilitating a less mechanistic classroom discourse.

  8. Some examples • Which is heavier, mortality of immortality? • Immortality because of all the things that you’ve seen and people that you have known. • Mortality because you know that one day it has to end and one day you will lose people that you care about

  9. Connect: If this is the answer, what could the question be? Student discussion A: What does a werewolf look like? B: Why are they called werewolves? Shouldn’t they be called menwolves?

  10. Connect: food glorious food • Watch these adverts. • Imagine that archaeologists discover these adverts 1000 years from now. • What might they decide about our society? What might they think it was like? What would they think our values, likes and dislikes were? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3WoKUOWxt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_1G6OlFIJQ

  11. Connect: • If you could wish for one thing, what would you wish for? • If I could wish for one thing, I would wish for ………… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0WBiME_fM

  12. Activate: exploring mood • You are going to track how the mood changes throughout the King Midas story. • You will need to plot five points on the mood graph showing how the story makes you feel. • To start off with, explore whether it creates a positive or negative mood. • You can add detail to your thoughts afterwards. • For each point that you plot you will also need to supply a quotation to go with it.

  13. Moodometer + E M O T I O N S - Time

  14. Moodometer + E M O T I O N S Challenge: Analyse and explain how the mood changes throughout the story. You should now be more descriptive about the types of feelings that the story makes you feel at different parts. - Time

  15. Homework Project Ideas

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