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<\/a><\/p>\nIntroduction and Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n The book Adventures in Ancient Greece<\/a> was written by Linda Bailey <\/a>and illustrated by Bill Slavin<\/a>.\u00a0 This story is about a set of twins and their younger sister who want to see the Olympic Games in the future.\u00a0 They stop by Jullian T. Pettigrew’s Travel Agency and inform him of their wishes and he hands them a book.\u00a0 Once they open the book, the three of them are transported back to ancient Greece.\u00a0 Once there, they see all of the culture, arts, customs of Greece and of course the Olympic Games.\u00a0 They have a lot of adventures in ancient Greece and all while they read from this book to get the information about what they are witnessing.<\/p>\n \u00a0”Democracy in Athens – Are you at the Pnyx yet?\u00a0 Pay close attention.\u00a0 History is being made here!\u00a0 Greece is the first place where ordinary people get to rule their own country.\u00a0 The ancient Greeks call this kind of government ‘demokratia’ (’demos’ means people, and ‘kratos’ means power).\u00a0 Later in history, it will be called ‘democracy’.”<\/p>\n \u00a0Curriculum Connections:<\/strong><\/p>\n This story focuses on the life and culture of ancient Greece.\u00a0 It shows the contributions to the world in the future as well as the advancement they have made themselves.\u00a0 The book includes the study of art, architecture and construction. It also focuses on government, politics,civics, agriculture, as well as the so famous sports and competition.\u00a0 (VA SOL 3.1)<\/p>\n Additional Resources: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Greek Gods Word Search<\/a>: This is a word search referencing the Greek Gods General Information: <\/strong> Introduction and Summary: The book Adventures in Ancient Greece was written by Linda Bailey and illustrated by Bill Slavin.\u00a0 This story is about a set of twins and their younger sister who want to see the Olympic Games in the future.\u00a0 They stop by Jullian T. Pettigrew’s Travel Agency and inform him of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOlympic Event Match Up:<\/a>\u00a0 This online activity tests the students’ knowledge on how well they know the sports the ancient Olympians competed in.
\nTime Line of Ancient Greece:<\/a>\u00a0 This activity, geared for older students provides eight distinct periods in Greek history and is up to the student to research what took place and create a picture in that time slot.<\/p>\n
\nBook: Adventures in Ancient Greece<\/a>
\nAuthor: Linda Bailey<\/a>
\nIllistrator: Bill Slavin<\/a>
\nPublisher: Kids Can Press, Ltd.
\nPublication Date: 2002
\nPages: 48
\nGrade Range: 3rd – 5th
\nISBN: 978-0329-00072-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"