Download Who`s Your Hero? Myths, Legends, and Heroes Buddy Meeting 2

Who’s Your Hero?
Myths, Legends, and Heroes
Buddy Meeting 2
Friday, November 19, 2010
8:30 – 9:40 a.m.
The second cross-aged buddy meeting for the
ancient worlds @ CHA theme year focuses on mythology.
To accomplish the goals of providing problem solving and discovery
activities for the cross-aged meeting experience,
we will be engaged in learning about and creating puppets of
mythological heroes.
Lesson: To learn some myths, legends, and heroes of our 6 targeted
ancient cultures and make stick puppets of various
gods/goddesses/heroes to retell these tales.
In keeping with the spirit of the lesson, we are requesting that the students dress
as their favorite heroes for our Buddy Meeting.
Lesson Objectives:
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To introduce and reinforce typical examples of the year’s targeted
ancient cultures’ myths, legends, and heroes
To provide opportunities for older students to teach and guide younger
students in discovery activities
To provide background information for myths and legends of all cultures –
and to understand these beliefs fulfilled a human need to understand the
world around us
To provide enrichment opportunities for all age levels
Lesson Materials Provided:
Myths, Legends, and Heroes Powerpoint Presentation
A story for each culture to be read by the older student leaders
Hercules
Roman Strongman
Athena
Greek Goddess of Wisdom
Lu Tung-Pin Chinese Immortal
The Hero Twins - Mayan Heroes
Isis
Egyptian Goddess
Robin Hood Medieval Hero
Cutouts for each figure (front and back)
Sticks to paste figures on
Backdrops of Ancient Temples of worship
Teachers need to provide scissors, glue, markers, crayons, colored pencils
Vocabulary
Myth
a traditional or legendary story, usually
concerning some being or hero or event, with or
without a determinable basis of fact or a natural
explanation,
esp. one that is concerned with
deities or demigods and explains some
practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
Legend
a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed
down by tradition from earlier times and
popularly accepted as historical.
Hero/Heroine
Classical Mythology .
a.
a being of godlike prowess and beneficence
who often came to be honored as a divinity.
b.
(in later antiquity) an immortal being; a demigod.
God/Goddess
In mythology, an immortal, supernatural being who
is the subject of traditional sacred stories; in religion,
an immortal, supernatural being who is the object of
worship and prayer.
Organizational Schema
1. Introduce the concepts of ancient myths, legends, and heroes with the
Powerpoint Presentation.
We all enjoy a good story! Today’s focus is the stories from our ancient worlds! As we
view and discuss these slides, see if you see any characters you have ever heard of
before!
2. Distribute the 6 stories so each student pairing will receive a different culture.
- Allow time for the stories to be read to the younger children
Now we will hear the complete story of one of these heroes, read by our MS friends. As
you listen, see if you can figure out how this story might have gotten started.
3. Distribute the 6 mythical figures and backdrops to coordinate with each story.
Now that your group knows your story, you can create puppets to retell the story for the
rest of the class. You will also get to see and hear your classmates’ ancient stories!
4. The students color, cut out, and paste together the puppets.
As students work, circulate and engage them in conversations about their particular
hero, eliciting their understanding of what made him/her heroic
5. Each group can act out the stories to each other or to the class.
- student leaders may reread the story while the younger children act out
the action.
- groups may create their own myths
Provide positive and encouraging responses to their retelling – supplying important
details if they were “missed” in the recreation
You might want to save these for your decorating your booth in May, or collect them and use
them again if you have some time. Enjoy! Don’t forget to encourage students to look for myths
and legends in the library like these we read today and like the one Mr. Schwaber told us at the
Spirit Assembly. (that story is available as an audio file @:
http://storynory.com/2007/01/15/in-the-cyclops-cave/
* If time permits : you might allow students to make more than one puppet
or create another character from the myths. (see extra figures)
Myths, Legends, and Heroes Powerpoint References:
Pegasus – Greek Flying Horse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus
Romulus and Remus – twin infants raised by wolves who founded Rome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus
Achilles – hero of the Trojan War, killed by an arrow to his heel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles
Unicorn – mythical one horned horse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn
Wang Mu – Chinese Mother of the Sky
http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/names/chinese-goddesses.htm
8 Chinese Immortals – Mythical people who traveled throughout China doing
good deeds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Immortals
Dragons – mythological creatures who could fly and had supernatural powers,
different interpretations in Europe and Asia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon
Perseus – killed the gorgon Medusa by outwitting her
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus
Odysseus/Ulysses – Greek king of Ithaca who had adventures traveling home
form the Trojan War, hero of Homer’s Iliad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus
Chac – Mayan Rain
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/mayan-mythology.php?deity=CHAC
Hunahpu and Xbalanque– Mayan Twin Heroes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Hero_Twins
Ymil Kaxob – Mayan Maize God http://www.lost-civilizations.net/mayan-godsmythology.html
Aeneas – Trojan hero from Virigil’s Aeneid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas
Atalanta – Roman huntress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalanta
Minerva – Roman equivalent to Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva
Nut – Egyptian Sky Goddess http://www.egyptianmyths.net/nut.htm
Isis – Goddess of Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
Ra– Egyptian Sun God http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra
Robin Hood – Medieval Sherwood Forest Outlaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood
King Arthur – legendary King of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur
Sir Galahad – Knight of the Round Table who found the Holy Grail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galahad
The Hero Twins shooting a
perched Principal Bird Deity with a blowgun.