Guiding+Activity-Elaine+Caffarelli


 * Intended Outcome:**
 * Students will understand the orgins of the gods and goddesses in ancient Greek mythology
 * Students will understand that myths were stories that used the ancient gods and heroes as characters to help explain nature and human nature.
 * Students will understand that the myths also portrayed traits considered desirable by the culture that created the myth or story.

**This guiding activity addresses the following national standards:** • Geography—Human Systems: Understands the patterns of human settlement and their causes; Environment and Society: Understands how geography is used to interpret the past • History—Historical Understanding: Understands and knows how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns, Understands the historical perspective • Language Arts—Viewing: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media


 * Answers the essential question**: What is mythology? How did it fit into ancient Greek culture?


 * Vocabulary: **
 * mortal
 * immortal
 * hero
 * myth
 * legend
 * god or goddess
 * ancient
 * Titans


 * Res﻿ ources:**

Discovery Education. (2004). Gods and Heroes in the Greek World [7:28 min]. Available from []


 * Myths are stories that people used to explain the world around them. Homer's //Odyssey// explains the world of the ancient Greeks.

d'Aulaire, I and d'Aulaire, E. (1992). D'Aulaires book of Greek myths. Delacorte Books for Young readers. Map of Ancient Greece. Where the stories happen. In //We goddesses: Athena, Aprodite, and Hera, pp x-xi//. DK Publishing .[|Where_the_Stories_Happen-Ancient_Greece.jpg]
 * Contains stories and illustrations of the great Greek gods, goddesses and heros as told in the ancient Greek myths. Appropriate for 9-12 year-olds.

Orgel, D. (1999). Introduction: How goddesses and gods are different from humans. In //We goddesses: Athena, Aprodite, and Hera, pp xiii-xx, ii//. DK Publishing.
 * Ten pages of reading material in pdf format that covers these topics: how goddesses and gods are different from humans, who is Olympian, who’s not?, what we owe the ancient Greeks, what life was like for girls and women, right and wrong-moral values, theirs and ours



ABC.net. (2003). Winged sandles: Storytime. Winged Sandles. accessed July 2011, at [] **Activity: Click on the link below to access your assignment. __NAME__: STUDENT STUDENT __USERNAME__: STUDENT_EDIM502 __PASSWORD__: 12345 ** []
 * Ancient Greek myths in flash formt.

Quiz #1 (True/False) Do you know ancient Greek myths? []



Quiz #2-- (Multiple Choice) Essential Vocabulary for Greek Mythology []