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2019 SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS GRADE 9 - CHRISTIAN STUDIES & LITERATURE CHRISTIAN STUDIES: Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 Kings Chapters 1 – 12, and Jonah _____________________________________________________________________ LITERATURE: Mythology by Edith Hamilton (ISBN 9780316223331) This book will also serve as a textbook for this class for part of the year. It contains many different myths, as well as helpful information on why it is important for the modern student to study these ancient myths. Read Parts I – III of Mythology and complete the summer reading packet. While you are not required to answer the packet in complete sentences, please complete the entire packet. You will submit your packet the first week of school for a homework grade. Additionally, the packet will be a helpful study tool for you as you prepare for the reading assessment and written assignment that will accompany this book upon your return to school. These will require you to be familiar with the characters and plots of the different myths. If you read the book early in the summer, please review before the first day of class. Approved: K. Johnson Updated: 04.17.19 Name: Date: Edith Hamilton’s Mythology Study Guide and Notes Week 1: Introduction to Classical Mythology Fill in the blanks or write short answers to the following: 1. How did the Greeks make their gods? ___________________________________. 2. The Greeks finally made ________________out of the stars. 3. What are the “dark spots” referred to by Edith Hamilton? ____________________. 4. According to the most modern idea, a real myth has nothing to do with religion. It is an explanation of what? ____________________. 5. Myths served two main purposes: to__________ or to ________. 6. Most of the stories of classical mythology depend chiefly on the Latin poet ______________. 7. The three tragic poets were _____________, ____________, and _____________. 8. The greatest writer of comedy was ___________________. 9. Plato was _______________________. 10. _________________ was the greatest of the Roman writers who saw the quality of ____________________ in Greek mythology worthy of writing about. 1 Part I: The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes Week 2: Chapter 1 The Gods; Chapter 2 The Two Great Gods of Earth Give brief descriptions for the lesser gods and goddesses listed below. And complete the chart for major gods and goddesses. Lesser gods of Olympus a. Eros- b. The Graces- c. The Muses- Figures of the Underworld a. Charon- b. Cerberus- c. Acheron, Cocytus, Styx- d. The Furies- e. Sleep and Death- Lesser gods of Earth a. Pan (Faunus)- b. Castor and Pollux- c. The Satyrs- d. Nymphs- e. Boreas, Notus, Eurus, Zephyr- f. The Centaurs- g. The Gorgons- h. The Sirens- i. Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos- 2 Greek Name Roman Name Realm Symbol Interesting Facts and/or Characteristics 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. Demeter 14. Dionysus 3 Choose the best answer for the following questions. 1. Whose story is told here? She was the Goddess of Corn. Her daughter was carried off to the underworld by Hades. The mother was greatly upset, and no crops grew on the earth. Zeus then ruled that the daughter would spend four months of every year in the underworld, and the rest of the time on the earth with her mother. The crops grew and flowers bloomed while the daughter was on earth, but all died when she went to the underworld. a. Demeter was the mother and Persephone was the daughter. b. Ceres was the mother and Phoebe was the daughter. c. Persephone was the mother and Doria was the daughter. d. Rhea was the mother and Demeter was the daughter. 2. True or False: Dionysus was the God of the Vine. He could give either joy or savage brutality, because wine could be both bad and good a. True b. False 3. Who became the center of the belief in immortality? a. Demeter c. Dionysus b. Persephone d. Hades 4. How were Demeter and Dionysus different from the other gods and goddesses? a. They were the only ones who had human mothers. b. They were the only ones who did not have temples dedicated to them. c. They were the only ones to whom humans could speak directly. d. They were the only ones who knew suffering, as the mortals did. 4 Week 3: Chapter 3 How the World and Mankind Were Created; Chapter 4 The Earliest Heroes Complete the following charts for the mythological creation narrative and the family tree of the gods and goddesses. Mythological Creation and Flood Similarities Biblical Creation and Flood • Who are Prometheus and Epimetheus? • What gifts does Epimetheus give to animals? • How does Prometheus make mankind superior to animals? • What is the second version of creation, the five stages of man? • What does Prometheus do that angers Zeus? • How is Prometheus tortured? • Why is Pandora created? • Why does Zeus send a flood to earth? • Who are the only two survivors? 5 ______________________ (major Olympian) ______________________ (major Olympian) ______________________ (major Olympian) ______________________ (major Olympian) ______________________ (major Olympian) ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ (Ops, Titan) (major Olympian) (100 hands) ______________________ ______________________ (Saturn) (where earth dwells) ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ (wise) (formless confusion) Titans ______________________ (love) ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ Iapetus (foolish) (Mother Earth) (one-eyed) ______________________ (Father Heaven) ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ (Earth holder) (4th race of monsters) ______________________ ______________________ (The Furies) ______________________ ______________________ (last offspring) ______________________ 6 Choose the best answer to the following questions. 1. Who is being described? She was a maiden with whom Zeus fell in love. He turned her into a calf to fool Hera and was forced to leave her that way. Eventually, she was returned to human form. Hercules was her direct descendant. a. Io c. Pyrrah b. Epimetheus d. Deucalion 2. How did Zeus carry of Europa? a. He sent the Sun in his golden chariot to kidnap her. b. He changed into a baby. When she bent to pick him up, he changed back and took her away. c. He had the North Wind blow her to the island of Crete. d. He changed into a bill and carried her away from home. 3. Who is being described? He was the Cyclops whom Odysseus encountered on his way home from the Trojan War. a. Narcissus c. Echo b. Adonis d. Polyphemus 4. Who is being described? He was a beautiful lad who refused to fall in love with any maiden. The goddess Nemesis made him fall in love with his reflection in a pool. He would not look away from his reflection, and so he died. A lovely flower bloomed on the spot where he died, and it was named after him. a. Narcissus c. Echo b. Adonis d. Polyphemus 5. Who is being described? She was a nymph. Hera punished her unjustly by condemning her to only be able to repeat what was said. She was in love with Narcissus but was not able to tell him so. She wasted away and only her voice was left. a. Narcissus c. Echo b. Adonis d. Polyphemus 6. Who is being described? Aphrodite and Persephone were both in love with him. Zeus declared that he should spend half of the year with each of them. One day while he was hunting, he was gored by a boar and died. The red flowers called anemones bloomed on his drops of blood. a. Narcissus c. Echo b. Adonis d. Polyphemus 7 Part II: Stories of Love and Adventure Week 4: Chapter 5 Cupid and Psyche; Chapter 6 Eight Brief Tales of Lovers Choose the best answer to the following questions. 1. Why was Venus angry at Psyche? a. Psyche tried to attract Zeus’ attention because she wanted to have a child who would be partly a god. This angered Hera, who asked Venus to help her punish Psyche. b. Psyche was the loveliest maiden alive. Many mortals began worshipping her and forgot Venus. This angered the goddess, and she planned to punish Psyche. c. Psyche had wrongly fallen in love with her father. This was always frowned upon by the gods, and Venus wanted to stop her. d. Psyche believed that mortals should be free to choose their own lovers, instead of having Venus of Cupid choose for them. She convinced many people who began defying the choices of Venus and Cupid. 2. Was Venus’ plan for revenge successful? a. Yes, it was. b. No, it wasn’t. 3. True or False: Psyche discovered that Cupid was her husband. He fled from her when she saw him. She had betrayed his trust by looking at him after she promised not to. a. True b. False 4. True or False: Cupid and Psyche were finally married in Olympus. Zeus made Psyche a goddess. Love and the Soul were together forever. a. True b. False 5. Which lovers arranged a tryst, mistakenly thought the other had been killed, and killed themselves? a. Galatea and Alpheus b. Zephyr and Amalina c. Pyramus and Thisbe d. Phoebe and Creos 6. What happened to Pygmalion? a. The moon fell in love with him and put him into a magic slumber. b. He chased Arethusa until Artemis turned her into a spring of water. c. He killed the women he loved in a jealous rage because she loved another. The gods punished him by making sure no woman ever fell in love with him again. d. He fell in love with a statue that he had made. Venus brought the statue to life and they married. 8 7. Who is described here? He was the son of one of the Muses and a gifted musician.
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