The Greek Myths Alive!

Monsters! Adventures! Romance! Students will be enthralled with this unit that introduces the original themes of love, retribution and heroism - then encourages them to learn more with a variety of fascinating Bloom's activities. Includes ideas for caregiver involvement plus an A3 poster of the Greek Gods. Bring the myths to life in your classroom!

This unit is an integrated studies unit crossing various curriculum areas (e.g. language, social and environmental studies, maths, art, science…). The unit can be used most successfully in the regular classroom, either to "stretch" your more able learners, or as a class unit whereby the children are still given the choice of activities and the majority of the class will probably choose (and feel most comfortable with) mainly lower-level thinking skills activities.

That being said, the unit has been prepared especially with gifted learners in mind, who have both the capacity for sustained higher-level thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, plus the ability to show task-commitment and independent work habits.

Contents

• Planning Outline
• Teacher's notes
• Resources
• An approach - where do I start?
• Pre/post-test
• Section 1 - An Introduction to the Greek Gods
• 1a) Vocabulary, naive beliefs, Pandora's Box
• 1b) Origin of the World
• 1c) Timeline
• 1d) Prometheus
• 1e) Activities: Lower-Level Thinking / Higher-Level Thinking / Planning and Evaluation Sheets
• Section 2 - Project
• Individual mini-research project - study skills on one god/goddess
• Sample of student's information chart
• Student Evaluation - project presentation
• Pull Out Poster centre spread
• Section 3 - Create and invent
• 3a) Characteristics of Greek myths
• 3b) Heroic Language thesaurus
• 3c) Invent A New Greek Myth!
• 3d) Creative Thinking
• Section 4 - Activities
• 4a) Bloom's Activities!
• 4b) Evaluation package
• Section 5 - Extension
• Individualised study
• Ancient Greece - flowchart
• Section 6 - Greek Day Presentation
• 6a) Teacher's notes
• 6b) Students' checklist
• Section 7 - Review
• Quiz time
• Venn diagrams