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    The document outlines a 13-step unit plan for teaching Greek mythology to students. The objectives are for students to develop critical thinking skills, use literature as inspiration for writing, expand their vocabulary, compare mythology across cultures, and recognize mythology in popular culture. Students will complete activities such as a KWL chart, analyzing conflicts in myths, creating word maps, punctuating mythological conversations, making predictions while reading, determining natural phenomena explained by myths, descriptive writing, debates, collaborative writing, reader's theater, writing newspaper articles, and a review game. The unit culminates in students creating scrapbooks demonstrating their new knowledge of mythology. Students will be evaluated based on teacher observations, work samples, participation, and assessments including a newspaper

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    The document outlines a 13-step unit plan for teaching Greek mythology to students. The objectives are for students to develop critical thinking skills, use literature as inspiration for writing, expand their vocabulary, compare mythology across cultures, and recognize mythology in popular culture. Students will complete activities such as a KWL chart, analyzing conflicts in myths, creating word maps, punctuating mythological conversations, making predictions while reading, determining natural phenomena explained by myths, descriptive writing, debates, collaborative writing, reader's theater, writing newspaper articles, and a review game. The unit culminates in students creating scrapbooks demonstrating their new knowledge of mythology. Students will be evaluated based on teacher observations, work samples, participation, and assessments including a newspaper

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    The document outlines a 13-step unit plan for teaching Greek mythology to students. The objectives are for students to develop critical thinking skills, use literature as inspiration for writing, expand their vocabulary, compare mythology across cultures, and recognize mythology in popular culture. Students will complete activities such as a KWL chart, analyzing conflicts in myths, creating word maps, punctuating mythological conversations, making predictions while reading, determining natural phenomena explained by myths, descriptive writing, debates, collaborative writing, reader's theater, writing newspaper articles, and a review game. The unit culminates in students creating scrapbooks demonstrating their new knowledge of mythology. Students will be evaluated based on teacher observations, work samples, participation, and assessments including a newspaper

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    Objective: Beauty Is

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    The document outlines a 13-step unit plan for teaching Greek mythology to students. The objectives are for students to develop critical thinking skills, use literature as inspiration for writing, expand their vocabulary, compare mythology across cultures, and recognize mythology in popular culture. Students will complete activities such as a KWL chart, analyzing conflicts in myths, creating word maps, punctuating mythological conversations, making predictions while reading, determining natural phenomena explained by myths, descriptive writing, debates, collaborative writing, reader's theater, writing newspaper articles, and a review game. The unit culminates in students creating scrapbooks demonstrating their new knowledge of mythology. Students will be evaluated based on teacher observations, work samples, participation, and assessments including a newspaper

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    Objective

    Students will:

    Develop skills needed to respond to inferential and critical questions when reading
    Utilize works of literature as springboards to writing
    Develop vocabulary Develop oral and written skills
    Compare and contrast Greek mythology to other stories
    Practice writing for a variety of purposes and audiences
    Identify elements of Greek mythology in popular culture, including advertising, humorous
    writing, fiction, and product identification

    Materials
    KWL Chart printable
    Books of myths
    World map
    Scrapbooking materials

    Directions
    Step 1: K-W-L: Use this activity at the beginning of the unit to assess how much students already
    know about mythology and to determine what they would be interested in learning. At the conclusion
    of the unit, students work in small groups to generate lists of new understandings about what they
    have learned.
    Step 2: Understanding Conflict and Resolution: Throughout the first two weeks, students read
    myths in class to determine the types of conflicts that occur (e.g., person vs. person, person vs.
    nature, etc.) and how these conflicts are resolved.
    Step 3: Word Maps: Students plot word maps to help facilitate their understanding of new
    vocabulary encountered during the unit. Word maps contain definitions, synonyms, sentences using
    the word correctly, and illustrations.
    Step 4: Punctuation Review: Students are presented with a conversation between two
    mythological characters from which all punctuation has been removed. Students work with a partner
    to punctuate the conversation correctly and then compare their version with the original.
    Step 5: Predictions: Students discuss the name of the mythological character and make predictions
    about the character in the myth. As they read, students continue to make predictions and confirm or
    reject those predictions.
    Step 6: Analysis: After reading the story of Demeter and Persephone, students determine what
    naturally occurring phenomena are explained.
    Step 7: Descriptive Writing: Students brainstorm words that describe the underworld and then
    write a descriptive paragraph of what Persephone saw when Hades kidnaps her and takes her to the
    underworld.
    Step 8: Class Debates: After reading the myth about Prometheus, divide students into two groups.
    One group supports Prometheus's decision to give man the precious gift of fire. The other group
    supports Zeus's decree that man should not be given fire. Students must use evidence and sound
    reasoning to support their positions.
    Step 9: Collaborative Writing Project: After reading the myth of Echo and Narcissus, students
    begin a class book entitled, Beauty Is.... All members of the class, including the teacher, contribute
    to the book.
    Step 10: Reader's Theater: Students will work in groups to adapt mythological stories using a
    Reader's Theater format and then present their adaptations to the rest of the class.
    Step 11: Newspaper Article: Students study the differences in author's style and purpose for
    newspaper writing vs. fiction. Then they identify the basic facts of the Trojan War (who, what, when,
    where, why, and how) and convert the information into an effective newspaper article.
    Step 12: Review Game: What's My Line? Students generate five sentences about their god or
    goddess without using the name. Divide students into two teams to play the game. Each player
    reads his or her sentences, one at a time, to the opposing team to see how few sentences it takes
    for that team to guess the god. This game is used at the end of the unit as a review for the unit test.
    Step 13: Culminating Activity: Students create scrapbooks to demonstrate new knowledge of
    mythology. The scrapbooks will be displayed in the class museum. Throughout the unit, students
    participate in learning activities from which they may select items they have created to place in their
    scrapbooks. For example, if a student's assigned goddess is Persephone, that student could include
    a character map, flowers, a drawing of Persephone, a newspaper article telling of her kidnapping,
    postcards from the underworld, a mock marriage certificate for Persephone and Hades, or creative
    diary entries from Persephone's point of view. Students should participate in the development of a
    rubric or scoring guide to evaluate the project before they begin their work.

    Evaluation
    Teacher's observations of student preparedness, student work samples, and participation in group
    activities.

    Assess Students
    Newspaper article related to the Trojan War
    Word maps and vocabulary quizzes
    Character chart of god or goddess
    Journal entries
    Oral presentation of god or goddess
    Mythology scrapbook

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