A writing-intensive seminar course for 9 students.
We started with FOUNDATIONAL ANTHOLOGIES
Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys with Arthur Rackham illustrations
And then we looked at MORE RECENT ANTHOLOGIES
Dugald Steer et al., Mythology (in the Ology series)
Elizabeth Spires and Mordicai Gerstein, I Am Arachne
Marcia Williams, Greek Myths
Marilyn Singer and Josee Masse, Echo Echo
We moved from Singer and Masse’s text to OTHER PICTUREBOOKS
Guy Billout, Thunderbolt & Rainbow
Marianna Mayer and Kinuko Y. Craft, Pegasus
Christopher Myers, Wings
Rosemary Wells, Max and Ruby in Pandora’s Box and Max and Ruby’s Midas
And we concluded with NOVELS
Nikki Loftin, The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Marilyn Sachs, The Fat Girl
Neal Shusterman, The Eyes of Kid Midas
Cynthia Voigt, Orfe
Throughout the course we also read relevant ANCIENT TEXTS
Ovid, Metamorphoses, selections
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Vergil, Georgics, Orpheus story in book 4