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3. They will also appreciate, and strive towards, demonstrating good

sportsmanship and healthy competition.
Greek School

Most Greek children never went to school at all. Girls, to
begin with, always stayed with their mothers until they

were married, either at home or working in the fields.
Slaves, whether boys or girls, also could not go to school, and many children in
ancient Athens and Corinth and other Greek cities were slaves. Any boy who was
poor, even if he was free, also could not go to school: his family could not afford to

pay the teacher, and besides they needed the boy's work at home. There were no
public schools.

Still, people who could spare the money did try to send their

boys to school, because without learning to read and write and
generally becoming educated, boys could not hope to
participate in politics when they grew up.

Greek schools were small. They had only one teacher and about ten or twenty boys.
Boys began going to school when they were about 7 years old, and went until they
were about 13.

In school, boys learned to read and write, and also memorized large amounts of
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. They learned to play the lyre (the kithara) and the pipes
(the aulos), and to sing.

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PERSONAL RESEARCH

Truth to Teach (Source)

 To research a chosen topic on the Greeks.

 To provide further experience in gathering information from a variety of
sources, selecting relevant material and presenting it appropriately.

Way to Work (Means)

1. Review the previous lessons.

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