It was his only participation and he was incredible. He was all the characters. His voice changed for each. His body adjusted for each. At the end of his presentation of the group's very short original myth, instead of clapping, there was dead silence in the classroom.
Thank goodness for one little girl who said - that was incredible! Then everybody clapped. For real. From then on, he came alive. Word spread. People were talking about him for days much to his embarrassment and delight.
Years ago, someone told me, when I was a new teacher, fictional writing needs to be a small group activity. And she was so right. Monster Myths : Small Group Activity. First, have your students read some additional Greek Myths if time permits as a review the Greek gods. Point out especially for this lesson the myth of King Tantalus beware mere mortals who think they can lie about the gods or use the gods for their own purposes. Working in small groups, have kids write a short made up myth.
As kids read their myth aloud, by giving parts to various group members or by selecting a narrator, the rest of the class has to ooh and ah and cheer because that's how things were done when the Ancient Greek storytellers told their tales. It was the myths. The Hercules Detective Agency. Small Group Activity. Have your kids read some Case Files from the Hercules Detective Agency, then, working in small groups, have them write a case file of their own.
Note: If you decide to post your student case files or original myths online, on your own site, please let us know so we can link from our sites to yours. Thank you. Business Cards: Tell the kids the gods are really getting upset. People are coming to the temples asking them to do everything. They don't do everything. They have jobs. People need a reminder of what jobs each god can do. In frustration, the gods have come to you to fix this.
You need to create for them some business cards that they can use to advertise what they do best. Example: Apollo, Want a sun tan? See Apollo. Or Hera: Wedding Consultant. Aphrodite: Love Advice for the Lonely. Work in groups. If you have multiple classes, work in large groups. Give each class different gods. That way, when they are all posted on the wall, the kids in each class can enjoy them. Assign groups the gods they will be helping.
Give them some time. Have each class them share their business cards ideas with the class. Have students research and write a report on one aspect of the modern Olympics that is of interest to them. Topics may include a specific sporting event, tradition, such as lighting the Olympic torch, or a symbol, such as the Olympic rings. Ask students to include how this aspect has changed since the ancient Olympics and the history of the event or tradition. Have students locate Greece on a map.
Have them chart a route from their hometown to Athens, Greece, and figure out the distance in miles between the two cities. Debating was popular in ancient Greece. Ask each side to list several reasons to support its point of view.
Students should anticipate what the other side might say in its argument, and counter those ideas with ideas of their own. With a specialty in science and social studies, our team of talented writers, award-winning designers and illustrators, and subject-experts from leading institutions is committed to a single mission: to get children excited about reading and learning.
Secure Server - We value your privacy. Every city-state wanted to brag that their athletics their statues, their theatre, their fabrics were the best! The Greeks all spoke the same language, and they all loved to brag. To be fair, they had a great deal to brag about. The Greeks gave us so many gifts - gifts like the Olympics, democracy, the theatre, comedy, tragedy, the wheelbarrow, the alphabet, advances in medicine and science, architectural wonders like the ancient Greek columns, incredible myths, and tales of legends, heroes, and fables, to name a few.
Theirs was a culture envied and copied by other ancient cultures. Learn how the brave Greek hero Theseus escaped the maze, a trick you might find handy some day. Discover how the king of Corinth tricked the god of the underworld and got away with it! Meet Apollo's Oracle, where things are not always as they seem. Argue with Socrates, the great teacher. Join Hercules on 12 dangerous missions, battling evil monsters. Read Aesop's fables, a collection of very short stories that are still popular today.
Come meet the clever, creative, ancient Greeks, and enter a world of competition, trickery and myth. Who were the ancient Greeks? Maps of Ancient Greece. Interactive Timelines of Ancient Greece. Minoans - Myth: The monster in the maze. Mycenaeans - very early Greece. Dorians - the hated invaders. What is a civilization? What is a city-state? Rise of City-States. Types of Government. Roots of Democracy in Athens. The Ancient Greek Olympics.
Daily Life. Education, School. Religion, Gods. Greek Vases Tell a Story. Greek Warriors. The Delian League. Peloponnesian War. Famous Greeks - Archimedes, Hippocrates, more. Pericles Funeral Oration. Greek Philosophies. Socrates - the great teacher. Homer's Iliad. Homer's Odyssey. Alexander the Great.
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