http://www.hawken.edu/class/greecenews/

On-line Historical Newspapers are a great way to engage students, incorporate technology into the learning process, link disciplines, and teach students writing, editing, and visual organization skills. Historical Newspapers are also an excellent way to bring the past to life for students. THE AEGEAN ENQUIRER includes reviews of ancient art, music, and films of Greek plays, analyses of Greek plays, sports coverage on the history and rebirth of the Olympics and the upcoming games in Athens, Olympic odes on Jesse Owens and ancient athletes (Milo of Croton) written in the style of Pindar, and articles on Greek architecture, solar heating in ancient Greece and Rome, and food, as well as on-line PowerPoint presentations on Greek history and culture. It's a very comprehensive newspaper written, edited and designed by fourteen 9th-grade Humanities students under the direction of the editor of NEXUS.

Let students become cultural detectives in the ancient Greek colonies known as Magna Graecia: Paestum, Syracuse, etc.. To be studied in conjunction with our ANTIGONE & THE GREEK WORLD volume.

Excellent samples of Greek art, many of which can be interpreted using the NEXUS approach outlined in our ANTIGONE & THE GREEK WORLD volume, can befound at the following sites:

THE MIDDLE AGESE
Excellent examples of medieval manuscripts and art can be accessed at the sites below. To be taught in conjunction with either the MACBETH & THE DARKAGES volume of NEXUS or THE LION IN WINTER & THE MIDDLE AGES volumes.

THE RENAISSANCE
Wonderful examples of Renaissance painting, including a narrated slideshowof THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, can beaccessed at the National Gallery. To be taught in conjunction with ourROMEO & JULIET AND THE RENAISSANCE. For examples, click on the logo below.

For examples of High Renaissance art, including six of the museum's superbRaphaels, click on the logo below.

HARLEM RENAISSANCE
See Lesson 2: "Langston Hughes & the Blues" at the Rock and Roll Hall ofFame site. The NEXUS Harlem Renaissance volume is recommended in theResource List for this unit; also see Lesson 11: Woody Guthrie & the GRAPESOF WRATH, in conjunction with our THE GRAPES OF WRATH & THE AMERICAN DREAM

We also recommend the following sites:
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION & THE GRAPES OF WRATH
A very helpful website for students to use in conjunction the NEXUS THE GRAPES OF WRATH & THE AMERICAN DREAM volume is:


Also see Rockhall link above for Woodie Guthrie & THE GRAPES OF WRATH.