Looking back, I most enjoyed reading Cupid and Psyche and the Ancient Egypt units. Both were full of intrigue and deities. Cupid and Psyche was pretty easy to read, which made the storyline easy to follow and that much more interesting. The Ancient Egypt unit was considerably harder to read, as that style of English is no longer widely used, but once I got used to it, I didn’t have too terrible of a time.
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| "Psyche entering Cupid's Garden" by John William Waterhouse. Source: wikiart.org |
The thing that slowed me down the most was going to look up the gods and goddesses and even some of the places they mention. I just really wanted to have the full context of the story, but sometimes that took a lot more work than I thought it would. I think maybe a reference page with a short summary of each god/goddess/location (perhaps with a map!) would help students make sense of the stories over the course of time.
Looking back over the reading diaries definitely helps me recall the readings that I focused on, but it definitely washes out the others that I didn’t write about. Often, I used the ones I mentioned in my Storytelling assignment, so that helped reinforce that as well.
