This year's theme for the National Mythology Exams will be Transformations. The Pegasus Mythology Exam’s thematic subtest for 5th-8th grade students will look at the myths of Echo and Narcissus, Phaethon, and Eos and Tithonus. The classical subtest choices will be Aeneid Book I or Odyssey Book XXIII; 7th and 8th grade students will choose the epic poem to focus on. The Medusa Mythology Exam will look at the Monstrous Mutations. The teaching module for the Pegasus Mythology Exam includes over 30 new activities, ranging from drawing to writing. It also includes three beginning Latin stories of the transformation myths. There will be a teaching review module for Monstrous Mutations.
Over the last few years, the resource committee has offered both a complete teaching module with all activities included, both new and old, and an expansion module with only the new activities; along with separate modules for the epic poems. Because the syllabus for the Transformations thematic subtest has changed so drastically, we will not be offering the expansion module this year. The expansion module will return next year.
Therefore for the 2020-2021 school year, the Pegasus Mythology Exam Teaching Modules you can choose from the Transformation Module, with all its activities or if you just need help reviewing the epic poems you can select to buy the Aeneid Book I or Odyssey Book XXIII teaching modules.
This year’s theme for the Exploratory Latin Exam will be Daily Life. The teaching module for Daily Life includes 50 different activities and readings to help review the Exploratory Latin Exam syllabus. It includes 13 new activities and projects and 10 beginner Latin stories, three of which were inspired or written by current Latin students.
If you have any questions about the National Mythology Exams theme contact Cheryl Cheatham at [email protected]. If you have questions about the Exploratory Latin Exam them contact Nava Cohen at [email protected]. Or if you have questions about the teaching modules contact Andrew Carroll at [email protected].
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I reached out to Krystal Kubichek, then Chair of Excellence Through Classics. The first week’s sessions included speakers such as : Jessie Craft, creator of the Magister Craft Minecraft video series; Skye Shirley, Latin yoga enthusiast and director of Lupercal; Darius Arya, archeologist and director of the American Academy at Rome; Caroline Lawrence, author of the Roman Mysteries miniseries; and Richard Campbell, member of Legio XX and Roman soldier reenactor. We put in a great deal of work, but by the time we reached the end of the week, we recognized that we had something magical on our hands.
We decided that this project needed a name - and in that moment, ETC Live was born. From that day in March (when we thought school might close for only two weeks) through June, Krystal, Sherwin and myself publicized over 85 and personally led 52 (nearly daily) sessions of ETC Live. ETC Live session topics included spoken Latin, musical performances, STEM demonstrations, and author and expert discussions, game-based sessions. All sessions were appropriate for a middle school audience and up. These recording and presentation materials have been added to the ETC Live site.
ETC was glad to support our members and their students during the difficulties of the Spring. Sherwin, Krystal, and I, as well as the ETC Committee, would like to thank all of our wonderful presenters, without whom ETC Live would not have been possible. We hope that all of our members were able to take advantage of our offerings, and look forward to providing new and engaging content to our members in the future.
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