Cross-Curricular Connections

As you read “The Golden Touch”, how did you imagine the appearance of Bacchus? Were you influenced by the painting in the introduction to the selection? Click on the link below to see a famous painting of Bacchus by a Flemish painter, Peter Paul Rubens.

http://www.beloit.edu/~classics/main/courses/classics150/museum150/Dionysus_Bacchus/Bacchus(Rubens_1638_Hermitage_St_Petersburg).htm

Perhaps if King Midas had expressed his wish more carefully he would not have had to suffer his strange fate. We may never have King Midas’s problem, but we all need to learn to express ourselves clearly. Click on the link below to play a vocabulary game.

http://www.glencoe.com/olc_games/game_engine/content/gln_la/wc6_05_NAT/unit03/game1_type_7/