Download Greek Mythology Storytelling

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Greek Mythology Storytelling
In your groups, you are responsible for researching your assigned/chosen myth as well as
the thirteen Greek gods/goddesses.
First, find articles online or on the databases. Print out and annotate the articles. When
you meet up with your group during the next class period, compare the information you
have collected on that myth and figure out how you are going to tell your story. Take time
to share the information you have gathered about the Greek gods/goddesses as well.
During the following class, you are responsible for telling your myth to a group of other
people who are not familiar with your story. You need to remember to be vivid in your
descriptions and tell your myth in a memorable way so to best prepare your peers for their
assessment which will address the myth stories. In exchange, you are responsible for being
a good listener, asking clarifying questions, and respecting your speaker.
Your assessment will be the following class. You are responsible for telling an accurate
version of your assigned myth, collecting accurate notes from your peers’ telling of the
stories, and preparing for your assessment.
Websites to use:
1. Persephone & Hades:
a. http://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-hades-andpersephone/
b. http://ancienthistory.abcclio.com/Search/Display/575736?terms=Persephone+and+Hades
c. http://online.infobase.com/HRC/Search/Details/223978?q=Persephone%
20and%20Hades
2. The Creation Story:
a. http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/The_Creation
/the_creation.html
b. http://dept.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_16.html
c. http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/greek/greek_cr
eation_myths.html
3. The Story of Io:
a. http://www.authorama.com/old-greek-stories-7.html
b. http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/Zeus's_Lover
s/Io/io.html
c. http://www.mythography.com/myth/welcome-tomythography/greek-legends/lovers-2/zeus-io/
4. Cupid and Psyche:
a. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/cupid.html
b. http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/mmarassa/mythology/cupid.html
c. http://xenafiction.net/scrolls/zipplic_ttsocap.pdf
Directions: complete the charts for the gods/goddesses and people that are influential in
Greek mythology.
12 Olympians
GREEK NAME
ROMAN
NAME
REALM
(God/Goddess
of ___)
SYMBOL
1. ZEUS
2. HERA
3. POSEIDON
4. HADES
5. ATHENA
6. APOLLO
7. ARTEMIS
8.APHRODITE
9. HERMES
10. ARES
11.HEPHAESTUS
12. HESTIA
13. DIONYSUS
Mythology stories
FACTS/CHARACTER
ISTICS
NAME
Persephone &
Hades
Terms and Other People to
Know
Demeter:
Persephone:
Hades:
Pomegranate Seeds:
The Creation
Story
STORYLINE
Demeter, Zeus, and Persephone’s
relationship
What Persephone is doing when she is
taken by Hades
What the rules are of the Underworld
What the myth explains
Creation of the World/Universe
Chaos:
Titans vs. Gods/Goddesses
Gaia:
Creation of Humans/Animals
Prometheus:
Punishment of Prometheus
Epithemus:
Rhea:
Cronus:
The Story of Io
How the affair begins
Io:
Steps Zeus takes to conceal the affair
Steps Hera takes to inhibit the affair
Argus:
Consequences for Argus
Fate of Io
What the myth explains
Cupid and
Psyche
Cupid:
Aphrodite’s role in the story of the
lovers
Cupid’s arrangement
Psyche’s sisters’ roles
Psyche:
Psyche’s punishment
Cupid’s decision