I had this random memory yesterday and I have been trying to flesh it out since then! But my memories are where I live now and this is kind of a vague memory and at least 20 years since I taught this!
I think that it may have been my third year teaching English, and I needed to come up with an elective for one class of students. I think it had something to do with the schedule or something but I only taught this elective for one semester!
I think that my principal had all this information for me to run a Greek Mythology class. I remember he had books already and I went to Barnes and Noble.(because that was still there then) and I bought the same book that he had. I took it to Kinko’s and had them cut off the binding so I could make copies more easily for my students.
The memory I had yesterday was seeing Ana’s name in Greek on the back wall of my classroom. That was the first lesson that I gave them. I gave them all copies of the Greek alphabet and had them make an 11 x 14 poster of their name in Greek. I remember that I had printed larger fonts of the words that said, “It’s all Greek to us.” Ana’s name looked exactly the same! That was the first poster on the left.
I am going to be thinking about this for a long time, but I remember showing them The first Clash of the Titans. I remember having to have them get a permission slip signed because they were only in seventh grade! There is some nudity! I remember making a big deal about it when there was nudity. My kids laughed and I told them (the boys) to close their eyes!
I know that book without the binding has to be in one of my bins of my teaching things. I haven’t thought about that for a while! But I remember laughing with the movie because my kids thought it was so old because it was from the 1970s.