Welcome to the Muses....
Aims:
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To increase and broaden the students' understanding of Classical Greek
and Roman mythology and discover commonalties between the mythologies of
Classical Greece and Rome and other mythologies.
Rationale:
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Understanding mythology increases appreciation for the culture the
mythology represents.
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To integrate disciplines energizes the study and broadens application.
Objectives
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Students will be able to communicate with one another and with other students,
educators, and authorities in a variety of ways including oral, written
, visual and electronic.
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Students will be able to use working definitions of the vocabulary which
relates to the study,on).
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Students will acquire a working knowledge of the major characters and events
of classical mythology.
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Students will be able to discern, from written sources and artifacts of
mythology, the values of the culture which developed the belief system
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Students will be able to articulate the functions of myth in society.
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Students will be able to classify myths in a variety of ways.
Activities:
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Students will use e-mail to correspond with students doing similar research
at other schools and to draw upon the resources of authorities.
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Using resources on the internet and in the library, students will contribute
to a paper graffiti board in the classroom which will contain definitions
of terms given, examples of mythological references in modern use,
student generated business cards and baseball-type cards for Classical
deities and heroes.
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Students will show an understanding of the Greek Pantheon by generating
a family tree.
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Students will show an understanding of sequencing by placing ancient civilizations
in chronological order on a vertical and horizontal time line.
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Students will share individual or group research about the belief systems
of ancient civilizations and relate them to the time line.
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Where appropriate, students will make note of adoption and adaption of
myths from culture to culture.
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Students will supply supporting details for an outline of an introduction
to mythology when supplied with the main ideas.
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Students will sequence the events in the Greek myth of creation when supplied
with cue cards.
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Groups will draw conclusions from cue cards as to which Greek god is being
described. From these cue cards, groups will develop resumes for
the deities.
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Groups will create presentations representing the major members of the
Greek Pantheon.
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Individual students will compare the contributions of various Greek myths.
From this study, each student will assume the role of clan story teller
and pass along the content lesson of the myth in a narration.
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Each day one student will function as Graffiti master adding the class's
graffiti to a computerized data base.
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Students will use the Internet to research the mythology of another culture
and will compare/contrast this mythology with the mythology of Classical
Greece and Rom.