This is a class for students who love pottery - making, looking at and collecting it.  We'll explore the pottery of three ancient, very artistic cultures: Greece, Egypt and Japan. We'll cover the following in this 55-minute, fast-paced class:

• What's the difference between pottery and ceramics?  
• The discovery of the oldest known pottery workshop, going back to the time of the Great Pyramids of Giza. 
• What the pottery tells us about the ancient Greeks, including their food, the everyday objects they stored, and how they used pottery as ritual objects.
• How the pottery in Japan took on a spiritual significance.
• The process of handmade pottery, the early glazes and the first pottery wheels and kilns in the ancient world.

I encourage students to bring their own pottery - authentic or modern - to show the class.


How I Teach:

- Only four students in class.
- Animated lecture and discussion.
- Lots of interaction.
- Images of pottery captured by the experts.
- A short, relaxing video on making pottery.
- Dramatic Keynote (PowerPoint) presentation 
   with illustrations and photos of original 
   ancient pottery and artwork.
- The display of my own AUTHENTIC POTTERY 
   that people used in ancient Egypt.
 
I specialize in classes with no more than four students, encouraging students to share their opinions, ideas, mistakes and triumphs.  I love it when kids laugh.  If it works, as it often does in my small classes, we can all stay unmuted - unless there is background noise.

After the class, I message each student's parents/caretakers to tell them how their student did.  And I also send students extra material, encouraging them to continue studying ancient pottery on their own.

CLASS PRICE includes (in addition to the scheduled class):

1. Welcome message to both the student and enroller.
2. Quiz (actually, a learning tool) as a pre-lesson activity.
3. AI generated summary for both entollers  and learners.
3. Personalized post-class message to the student and enroller, detailing how the learner did in class and any recommendations.
4. Availability to answer a student's questions (by message) after class.

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