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: comprehensive near Cannock, South Staffordshire. Student population: approximately Socially and economically diverse demographic. Ovid’s Tales of Change currently being taught to Year 7.

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?

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?

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

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.

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

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?

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? watch?v=M3WoKUOWxt0 watch?v=r_1G6OlFIJQ

Connect: If you could wish for one thing, what would you wish for? If I could wish for one thing, I would wish for ………… youtube.com/ watch?v=qp0 WBiME_fM

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.

Moodometer EMOTIONSEMOTIONS + - Time

Moodometer EMOTIONSEMOTIONS + - Time 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.

1. And they caught the satyr, and they bound him with ropes, and they lifted him onto their shoulder, and they carried him to their king. 2. He sat the old Satyr on his golden throne. And he ordered that a feast be held in honour of Silenus. 3. And King Midas ran this way and that, touching this and touching that. 4. … she clattered onto the ground, the perfect, golden statue of a little girl … 5. And his little daughter leapt to her feet all unknowing, and ran into the arms of her nursemaid.

EventSituationChoicePersonReasonMeans Present What is? Where/wh en is? Which is?Who is?Why is?How is? Past What did? Where/wh en did? Which did?Who did?Why did?How did? Possibility What can? Where/wh en can? Which can? Who can?Why can?How can? Probability What would? Where/wh en would? Which would? Who would? Why would? How would? Prediction What will? Where/wh en will? Which will? Who will?Why will?How will? Imagination What might? Where/wh en might? Which might? Who might? Why might? How might?

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