Showing 9 entries for tag: Asclepius
Showing 9 entries for tag: Asclepius
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Themes in the Birth of Olympians
The purpose of this activity is for students to analyze how the birth stories of gods and goddesses reflect the symbols and themes associated with those gods. For example, a student would analyze what it means that Athena, Goddess of Wisdom is born from Zeus’s head. Students should choose three birth stories to fill in the Storyboard and provide illustrations and descriptions.
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The purpose of this activity is to familiarize students with characters in Greek mythology. Students are given a template with boxes to: illustrate the god, write their domain of power, symbols, associated myths, and their Roman name. This activity can be assigned prior to learning a specific myth with students doing their own research as preparation, or to be filled out while learning a myth in class.
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King Midas’ Golden Touch Character Analysis
This resource asks students to illustrate a comic strip based on the myth of King Midas’ Golden Touch. The student should choose one character from the story and in each box illustrate a scene where that character advanced the plot and provide a brief caption/explanation. The activity is intended to teach students about plot development and story telling through the Greek myth.
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King Midas and the Golden Touch Character Map
This resource asks students to create a character map for both the major and minor characters in the myth of King Midas and the Golden touch. Students should use the given template to draw a picture of the character, describe their physical appearance, traits, actions, and provide quotes that the characters said that progress the plot. Students learn skills of character analysis while better understanding the myth of King Midas and the Golden touch.
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King Midas’ Golden touch: Theme of King Midas
This resource has students create a storyboard of the myth of King Midas while looking at the presence of one theme throughout the story. Students are either assigned a theme or choose for themselves and illustrate three instances where the theme occurs in the story. Students provide a description under each illustration. The activity is meant to sharpen students’ understanding of how theme works in a story and deepen their understanding of the myth of King (...)
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Create a Plot Diagram of a Greek Myth
Students should choose a myth to create a storyboard and separate the story into the 6 elements of the narrative arc: Exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Students should then illustrate a scene that represents each of those elements and write a description. This lesson teaches students how to break down and understand a given myth and explain the importance of each stage in the plot.
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Symbols, Themes, and Motifs in Greek Mythology
The purpose of this assignment is for students to understand widespread themes in Greek mythology and how they reflect the attitude of Greeks towards their myths. Students should choose a theme they’ve observed to be present in multiple myths they have learned and create a storyboard of three examples where the theme occurs. Each example should include a title, illustration, and description. Examples of themes include human flaws, temptation, payback and rew(...)
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This lesson has students draw an assigned number of gods with their respective symbols as well as appropriate scenes and characters accompanied by a description below each cell. The purpose is to familiarize students with the various symbols and images that are associated with each god.
Mark Warner
This resource instructs how to use fact cards on ancient Greece in the classroom. There are 20 facts cards and two empty cards. They include short facts on the geography of ancient Greece, democracy, literature, religion, army, education, art, slaves, home, theater, Olympic games, writing, Pythagoras, Alexander the Great, Homer.
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