Toga party, mock Olympic games at Polk Middle

Published 11:05 am Friday, January 13, 2012

Mrs. Burgin’s sixth grade language arts class at Polk County Middle School recently culminated its unit on Greek mythology with a toga party and mock Olympic games such as the Olympic Ring Shimmy, the Grey Women Eyeball Relay and Perseus’s Decapitation Discus. During the unit the students created newspapers from ancient Greece and reenacted the myths. (photo submitted by Jeanne Burgin)

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