McHenry County College, Crystal
Lake, Illinois 60014
Students will use e-mail to correspond
with students doing similar research at other schools and to draw upon
the resources of authorities.
Using resources on the internet and
in the library, students will contribute to a graffiti board 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.
Students will collect examples of modern
animism and note its use in literature.
Students will show an understanding
of the Greek Pantheon by generating a family tree.
Students will show an understanding
of sequencing by placing ancient civilizations in chronological order on
a vertical and horizontal time line.
Students will share individual or group
research about the belief systems of ancient civilizations and relate them
to the time line.
Where appropriate, students will make
note of adoption and adaption of myths from culture to culture.
Students will supply supporting details
for an outline of an introduction to mythology when supplied with the main
ideas.
Students will sequence the events in
the Greek myth of creation when supplied with cue cards.
Groups will draw conclusions from cue
cards as to which of the Greek god is being described. From these
cue cards, groups will develop resumes for each deity.
Groups will create presentations representing
the major members of the Greek Pantheon.
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.
Each day one student will function as
Graffiti master adding the class's graffiti to a computerized data base.