Lesson 5 : NetLibrary

I teach a semester length mythology class to high school students, so I chose "Odysseus" as the keyword for my basic search. This brought to me 57 ebooks. One book that I will be able to use in my classroom includes simplified versions of myths and holidays or events when these myths might be presented to elementary children. As a project in my mythology class, I will have students select some of these simplified versions of myths and present them to elementary students around the time of the holiday or event. Since the school I teach in is a small school with all students from kindgergarten through twelfth grade in the same building, our school is easily able to have our high school students work with the elementary students, and both age groups of students seem to benefit from these experiences.
When I searched for sources for students planning activities for Constitution Day on September 17, I found a multitude of ebooks that would be helpful. Some of the those ebooks include letters of Thomas Jefferson, personal memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, narratives such as "My Bondage and My Freedom" by Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address. For example, students could use information from these sources to create a "Jeopardy" type game using one of the free game templates available via the Internet. I have had students create games like this based on novels and plays we have read in class, and I find the students really enjoy creating and playing the games, which serve as good reviews over the novels and plays.