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SB 2.15 (Level 1)
Focus
 What do you already know about Greek myths? List
what you remember about the following:
 Names of gods and goddesses and their area of control
 Where the gods and goddesses live and what their lives
are like
 The kinds of things gods and goddesses do.
Family Tree
Myth
a traditional story
Myth
Picture
that explains the
actions of gods or
heroes or the
origins of the
elements of nature,
Example/
Non-example
During Reading
Use metacognitive markers to guide your later
discussion.
 Write (?) next to parts where you have a question,

You may want to write a brief phrase to remind you of the
question or circle something in the text
 (!) next to parts to which you want to share a reaction,

I like to draw emotion icons for these, like 
 and (*) next to parts where you might make a
comment.

I always write what I want to say because I might forget.
After Reading
Chronos – Time
Like “The Gathering of the Wild Animals,” the Greek
myth you have read explains the origin of the seasons.
Imagine that you are a reporter covering this story. Begin by
numbering these important events in chronological order.
Number
Events
Zeus agrees to let Persephone return to her mother.
Demeter allows the crops to wither and fail.
The world experiences different seasons.
Persephone returns to her mother.
Demeter finds out that Hades has kidnapped her
daughter.
Hades kidnaps Persephone and takes her to the
underworld.
Persephone eats some pomegranate seeds.
Extension
 In your role as a reporter, imagine that you
have learned from a reliable source that
Persephone has been found and will be
returned to her mother. Since she accepted
food from Hades, she will have to return to
the underworld for several months each year.
During her time in the underworld,
everything in the living world will wither.
Why is this an important story to share with
the rest of the world? How might people react
to this change in their world?
Digging for Facts
 Reporters try to get answers to a series of questions known
as the five “Ws” and one “H.” Answer these questions.
Questions
Who is involved in Persephone’s
return? Who made the decision
regarding Persephone’s return?
What is the decision regarding
Persephone’s return?
When was the decision made?
Where was the decision made? Where
are the people involved in the story?
Why was the decision made?
How was the decision made?
Response
Headlines
 The headline for a news story has the important job of
catching the reader’s interest, getting him or her to
read the article or watch the story. What have you
noticed about real news headlines?
 Use your notes about headlines and about the
story to help you write a headline for the news story
about Persephone’s return.
Opinions
 You have practiced writing an interview report using
open-ended questions. In “Persephone,” the various
gods and goddesses have different opinions about the
decision to let Persephone go back to her mother.
Rank the opinions of these characters and write their
names in the appropriate category on the scale: Zeus,
Hades, Demeter, Persephone, Helios, and Hermes.
Least in Favor
Neutral
Most in Favor
Asking a Character’s Opinion
 Choose one of the characters who would be in favor
of allowing Persephone to return to the living world.
What would you ask to find out his or her reaction to
the news? How would he or she answer?
 Write at least three questions and answers.
Character: ___________
Questions
Response
Asking a Character’s Opinion
 A good reporter will try to get a balanced story; that is, he
or she will try to present both sides of an issue. With that
in mind, choose a character who would not be in favor of
allowing Persephone to return to the living world. Write
at least three questions and answers for that character.
Write at least three questions and answers.
Character: ___________
Questions
Response
Visually Speaking
 If you were presenting the story of Persephone’s return to
the world of the living on a TV newscast, what graphic
would you use to accompany the headline you wrote in
Question 6? Write your headline, and then sketch a graphic
to go with the story.
Headline: ___________
Sketch