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_http://www.paleothea.com/quiz.html_ (http://www.paleothea.com/quiz.html)

These kinds of quizzes are really popular with kids and teens, and there are
tons of them out there. This particular one gives a Greek goddess at the
end and tells about her. You can go back to the main page where there's just
general info on Greek goddesses, or you can keep changing your answers and see
what you get.

For kids, this is reading and history and vocabulary and mythology.
(I mean if it's fun, those are the dots they might connect with it.)

The internet is filled with fun quizzes like this, and
choose-your-own-adventure kinds of sites and other such things.

If you ask your kids they might already know of some good ones.

Sandra


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Danielle Conger

Well, I'm Gaia according to the quiz. I'm a sucker for quizzes like
that. When the girls are finished playing, I'll see if they want to do
it, too.

We just finished watching Troy, which the kids loved because it tied
into Ages of Mythology and the myths they love to read. The bonus disc
was cool, too, and it included a Temple of the Gods where one can click
on each statue to hear a description.

The kids will laugh when I tell them I came up as Gaia--she's their
favorite Titan on Ages of Mythology. We talk about the Earth a lot, and
Sam will say very solemnly, "Everything's Gaia, isn't it mom?"

~~Danielle
Emily (7), Julia (6), Sam (4.5)
http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

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"With our thoughts, we make the world." ~~Buddha

Ruth

Well, I'm Gaia according to the quiz

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So am I!!!!!!!!

Ruth

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In a message dated 3/18/05 1:17:44 PM, danielle.conger@... writes:

<< We talk about the Earth a lot, and

Sam will say very solemnly, "Everything's Gaia, isn't it mom?" >>

Well, mom?
Is it? <g>

That's been a good question to ask over the years when people say something
is "not natural."

"Why?"

"It's man-made."

"Aren't men natural?"

"Yeah, but..."

"Honey is bee-made; is it 'natural'?"

"They made plastic out of oil."

"Is oil natural? Are men natural? Maybe they make plastic like bees make
honey."

Other things besides honey to puzzle out?
amber
ambergris
salt (does it depend how it's processed or not?)
soap (what if it's from yucca root or some other such sudsy, acidic plant?)


Irritating questions, maybe, but I scored "Athena" and she wasn't natural her
own self, and messes with industry and sciences and nosy questions. Marty
says she's goddess of the hunt, too. He's usually right.

Sandra

Danielle Conger

==Irritating questions, maybe, but I scored "Athena" and she wasn't
natural her own self, and messes with industry and sciences and nosy
questions. Marty says she's goddess of the hunt, too. He's usually
right. ==

Hmmmm...if memory serves Artemis is goddess of the hunt. Athena is
goddess of wisdom and maybe war too? She gives the cool armor and stuff.
One myth says she sprang fully formed from Zeus' head. She's very strong.

amber...

Very cool stuff. I have a bracelet we were looking at just recently that
has a mosquito fossilized inside. We had watched the beginning of
Jurassic Park where they get the dino dna from mosquitoes trapped in
amber. Much fun. We ended up not watching the whole movie, deciding it
was probably too scary once the raptors start coming after the kids. But
the beginning was cool to see and talk about.

See Sandra, this is why I love your house as a museum piece. *g* I
identify with it.

~~Danielle

Emily (7), Julia (6), Sam (4.5)
http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"With our thoughts, we make the world." ~~Buddha



>
>

Robin Clevenger

Fun quiz, I ended up as Artemis.

--- In [email protected], Danielle Conger
<danielle.conger@c...> wrote:
> The kids will laugh when I tell them I came up as Gaia--she's
their
> favorite Titan on Ages of Mythology.


My kids call her "big stinky green" because of all the flies around
her maybe? The kids have really loved Age of Mythology, and it is
fun/cool to see the many different ways that they use it. My
daughter loves the animals and tends to do things like assigning
trolls and other large creatures to guard her pigs from hungry
villagers. They have one scenario where they have a saved game that
they each play at times. They each have their own island in that
game and they will send things over to each other on boats. They
also do the traditional campaigns and stuff, especially my son who's
really into the whole mythology stuff.

We loved Troy too. There's a good National Geographic Behind the
Movie DVD that we got on Netflix about Troy as well. We read the
Iliad and are in the middle of the Odyssey and it's been fun to see
how the movie differed from the stories in places. We haven't gotten
the bonus disk yet, but it sounds like it might be worth getting.

It's cool that there are all these interconnected resources to
explore.

Blue Skies,
-Robin-

Danielle Conger

==My kids call her "big stinky green" because of all the flies around
her maybe? ==

I prefer Gaia, thank you. ;)

==The kids have really loved Age of Mythology, and it is fun/cool to see
the many different ways that they use it. ===

Have they figured out yet how to create their own game? You can choose
all the different available things--from warriors to animals to
buildings--from a pull down menu, I think. You can create your own land,
water ways, etc. Sam and I had lots of fun with that one day recently
when he was showing me what he did.

== We loved Troy too. There's a good National Geographic Behind the
Movie DVD that we got on Netflix about Troy as well. We read the Iliad
and are in the middle of the Odyssey and it's been fun to see how the
movie differed from the stories in places. We haven't gotten the bonus
disk yet, but it sounds like it might be worth getting. ==

Em and I both thought the bonus disc was more interesting than the NG
Troy, which we had watched first. I didn't realize that I had to order
the bonus disc as a separate choice in my movie queue--we're new to this
online movie rental thing. We read a couple passages from the
Iliad--enough to find out that's why Achilles calls Aggamemnon a "sack
of wine," which seems like a somewhat bizarre epithet.

~~Danielle
Emily (7), Julia (6), Sam (4.5)
http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"With our thoughts, we make the world." ~~Buddha

>
>

soggyboysmom

I ended up Hestia

Heather Woodward

I was Hestia Goddess of the Hearth. - She was apparently virginal... well I guess housekeeping doesn't necessarily lend itself toward romance....

In any case, it was a fun quiz - and then I spent time pokign around at the site.

Thanks for sending it on...
----- Original Message -----
From: SandraDodd@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:46 PM
Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] What Greek Goddess Are You? (connecting the dots)


_http://www.paleothea.com/quiz.html_ (http://www.paleothea.com/quiz.html)

These kinds of quizzes are really popular with kids and teens, and there are
tons of them out there. This particular one gives a Greek goddess at the
end and tells about her. You can go back to the main page where there's just
general info on Greek goddesses, or you can keep changing your answers and see
what you get.

For kids, this is reading and history and vocabulary and mythology.
(I mean if it's fun, those are the dots they might connect with it.)

The internet is filled with fun quizzes like this, and
choose-your-own-adventure kinds of sites and other such things.

If you ask your kids they might already know of some good ones.

Sandra


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bunsofaluminum

I took one yesterday "What Lunatic From History Are You?" and I was
some English gentleman who created a floor-less ballroom under his
house, and holed himself up in five rooms in his huge estate, all of
the rooms painted pink. When he died, he left behind several dozen
hat boxes, each with a brown wig in it.

LOL

I'll see if I can find the link

HeidiC


--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:
> _http://www.paleothea.com/quiz.html_
(http://www.paleothea.com/quiz.html)
>
> These kinds of quizzes are really popular with kids and teens, and
there are
> tons of them out there. This particular one gives a Greek goddess
at the
> end and tells about her. You can go back to the main page where
there's just
> general info on Greek goddesses, or you can keep changing your
answers and see
> what you get.
>
> For kids, this is reading and history and vocabulary and
mythology.
> (I mean if it's fun, those are the dots they might connect with it.)
>
> The internet is filled with fun quizzes like this, and
> choose-your-own-adventure kinds of sites and other such things.
>
> If you ask your kids they might already know of some good ones.
>
> Sandra
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Robin Clevenger

--- In [email protected], Danielle Conger
<danielle.conger@c...> wrote:
> Have they figured out yet how to create their own game? You can
choose
> all the different available things--from warriors to animals to
> buildings--from a pull down menu, I think. You can create your own
land,
> water ways, etc.

Yes, they just discovered that and are having a lot of fun with it.
They also got a list of cool cheats from a friend, stuff like flying
hippos shooting rainbows out their butts (of course, the kids found
that endlessly amusing)


> Em and I both thought the bonus disc was more interesting than the
NG
> Troy, which we had watched first.

Oh good, I'll have to add that to my queueu!


>We read a couple passages from the
> Iliad--enough to find out that's why Achilles calls Aggamemnon
a "sack
> of wine," which seems like a somewhat bizarre epithet.


I think the best thing about reading the Iliad, is that when people
start talking about how modern movies, books, TV shows, video games
are "so violent", I can say (with straight face) "Oh yes, it's just
dreadful what kids are into these days. My son was reading this book
the other day and these guys are fighting and one stabs the other in
the face and his eyeballs fall out into the dust with blood gushing
from the empty sockets - it was awful!", and when the other person
asks if it was Manga or some other dreadful new stuff, I can tell
them it was the Iliad. Yes, one of the great classics, LOL!

Blue Skies,
-Robin-

bunsofaluminum

This very thing happened to me, after seeing LOTR, The Fellowship. It
seemed so violent! so graphic! And so, I re-read(For the nth time)
the books. And found descriptions of heads being lobbed into Minas
Tirith, heads of the men who had fallen in battle outside the city
gates.

this was graphic, and I nevermore complained about how violent Peter
Jackson had made the movies.

Blessings, heidiC



> I think the best thing about reading the Iliad, is that when people
> start talking about how modern movies, books, TV shows, video games
> are "so violent", I can say (with straight face) "Oh yes, it's just
> dreadful what kids are into these days. My son was reading this
book
> the other day and these guys are fighting and one stabs the other
in
> the face and his eyeballs fall out into the dust with blood gushing
> from the empty sockets - it was awful!", and when the other person
> asks if it was Manga or some other dreadful new stuff, I can tell
> them it was the Iliad. Yes, one of the great classics, LOL!
>
> Blue Skies,
> -Robin-

primalmother

I thought this was funny. I also came out Artemis and my name is
Robin as well.

--- In [email protected], "Robin Clevenger"
<tri_mom@c...> wrote:
>
> Fun quiz, I ended up as Artemis.
>

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I must be hard to peg. I am Athena, Hera, AND Artemis!

There ya' go!

~Kelly