Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

A book club for Classics teachers to deepen subject & pedagogical knowledge. Run by @MsSSaunders and @MrClassics3. Inspired by @historybookgrp. DM for Discord. Joined May 2020

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Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

4 years ago

Reminding all readers this cycle's @ClassicsBook read: The Trojan Women and Other Plays - Euripides, available through the Oxford University Press.

Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

4 years ago

Reminding all readers this cycle's @ClassicsBook read: The Trojan Women and Other Plays - Euripides, available through the Oxford University Press.

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Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

4 years ago

The results are in! The next @ClassicsBook read will be The Trojan Women and Other Plays - Euripides (Oxford World's Classics Edition) Available on Amazon. OR if you prefer, through Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/ukhe/product/t…

Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

4 years ago

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Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

4 years ago

Just under 24 hours to vote for the next #ClassicsTeacher Book Club read! Four excellent choices to choose from!

Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

4 years ago

Just under 24 hours to vote for the next #ClassicsTeacher Book Club read! Four excellent choices to choose from!

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Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

4 years ago

Next @ClassicsBook read has a Classics pedagogy focus. Whether it be using MFL pedagogy to aid our teaching of Latin, History pedagogy to aid Ancient History or Classical Civilisation, or English to help with Classical Civ elements. Get your thinking cap on!

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Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

4 years ago

5 responses already! Keep them coming, folks!

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Lisa Hobson @LisaJayneHobson

4 years ago

@ClassicsBook really enjoyed the discussion and the book! Thanks 😊

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Classics Teacher Book Club @ClassicsBook

4 years ago

That's it for our discussion tonight! Thank you so much for joining in and special thanks to those who submitted questions - some lovely ones in there tonight (please do fess up for credit!)

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Lisa Hobson @LisaJayneHobson

4 years ago

@ClassicsBook I really liked Haynes’ use of modern retellings...that would be a good way in for a lot of students.

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Rachel Jackson-Marsden @TeacheResearch

4 years ago

@ClassicsBook Going back to the provenance of myths is something I’ll try to do more of e.g. I didn’t realise that the Gorgons started off as just heads! I’d just assumed that depictions of the disembodied Medusa was a result of events in the story.

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MrClassics3 @MrClassics3

4 years ago

@ClassicsBook Your classics action-hero fascination I think. We still do it now, just look at movies like Die Hard (not jibing, it's an excellent set of films!).

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Lisa Hobson @LisaJayneHobson

4 years ago

@LapsangSarah @ClassicsBook I loved reading about Penthesilea...she was amazing!

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Sarah Drummond @LapsangSarah

4 years ago

@LisaFarrell3 @ClassicsBook Also I know it was just focussed on Greek myth, but Camilla is a absolute legend and has to sneak in under the radar!

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Lisa Hobson @LisaJayneHobson

4 years ago

@ClassicsBook Definitely. Planning an enrichment unit focusing on women of mythology. Pandora is a brilliant example. I ‘knew’ the traditional story but I loved discovering the complexity of that myth. That’s the journey I want to take my students on.

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Sarah Drummond @LapsangSarah

4 years ago

@ClassicsBook I really want to do a unit on the Amazons, maybe mixed with some stuff on the archaeological evidence from Scythia.

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Lisa Hobson @LisaJayneHobson

4 years ago

@MsSSaunders @LapsangSarah @ClassicsBook Exactly. I loved Lancelyn Green’s books as a child but had no idea about complexity of some of these stories. I also think the obsession with mythological heroes over the years has meant women are marginalised.