At Odds With Greek Gods
My daughter loves to read. She will peruse anything she can get her hands on, including the Tennessee Blue Book (true story). Sometimes, she encounters a theme she really likes and will devour any book about it that she can find. This year, she has enjoyed reading books by Rick Riordan, and she became obsessed with Greek mythology. She decided that she wanted to have a theme party based on the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series. She made a Greek mythology trivia game using PowerPoint. She fashioned a costume to look like Artemis. She made some decorations. She was very excited. The pandemic limited our ability to host a party, so we decided that she would have the party with her extended family during their annual camping trip. We asked her aunt, who knows some Greek, to give a mini lesson for the kids. We asked an uncle to have his sons act out a famous battle. Because everyone was staying in different cabins, and the Percy Jackson books involve cabins for each of the major