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This 6-week unit focuses on fantasies, adventure poetry, mythology, and informational texts about ancient Greece and Rome. Students will read stories and poems about dragons, myths from Greece and Rome, and Homer's Odyssey. They will create multimedia presentations combining recorded readings of assigned chapters with illustrations. Finally, students will research an Olympic sport and compare it to ancient Greek Olympics. The unit aims to show how literature is shaped by culture and how ancient Greek and Roman civilizations influenced world literature.
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