Name: Block: Date:
Myths Stations
Directions: With your group, you will be learning more about the characteristics of myths. Follow the directions below for each station.
Station 1: Myths vs. Science Station 2: Emotions
Directions: Read the two accounts of the sun coming up out loud with your group. Directions: Read the myth out loud with your group. Pick three emotions you see in
Discuss and fill in the table below. the story and explain why you picked them.
Similarities Differences
• Both about the sunrise • In the myth there were gds Emotion Explanation
• They are both a cycle • There is a snake in the Sad He doesn't know who his father is
• myth and he gets teased
• The Scientific explanation
is about the north pole Proud He's going to prove that his dad is to
• In the myth it talks about
the kids at school
the under world
• The scientific Explanation
talks about very specific Scary He lost control of he reins and was
things knocked out of the sky by lord Zeus
• The myth is not very
specific
Station 3: Making text-to-self connections
Directions: Poll the people in your group to see who has had the experience on the front of the card. Then read the name of the myth on the back. Keep track of which stories
YOU can make a text-to-self connection to, then write about three of them.
Name of Myth Describe a similar situation in your own life
Pan I was at a lazartag party and it was really fun
Pandora I was talking to someone and told them that I got a good score
Io the cow My friend was doing something wrong and they blamed it on
me
Station 4: Gods Station 5: Inferring from Pictures
Directions: Independently and silently, read the Choose Your Own Adventure myth. Directions: Look at each of the pictures, which show scenes from myths. Describe
Decide how your human character (you) should proceed. After finishing the story, make what is happening in three of the pictures and what emotions you see in each
a list of things you can infer about the gods in Greek myths. picture.
Summary Emotions
I made it to the end. I did because I did not There is a man with a mini Sad, scared
want to give up I wanted to win. person on his shoulder
pointing at a woman who
looks scared
There is a group of people Sad, worried,
surrounding a man, and a another surprised
man is on the floor seemingly
dead the dead man has a head of
a bull
It looks like a fight scene where Angry, mad, sad,
they are fighting with boulders furious, scared
Summarizer: Big Ideas about Myths
Directions: Fill in the blanks below with ideas you have formed while exploring the myths at each station today. Be prepared to share with the class.
Story's that we don't know are real
Myths are about ___________________________________________,
Events that we think happened in
Myths are _______________________________________________.
Real things
not ______________________________________________________. ancient places
Myths tried to explain Things that happened with gds
_______________________________________. Gods
Myths have characters that are ______________________________.
It tells a lot about the gds in ancient places
Myths were probably important because ____________________________________________________________________________________.
