English Elective: Mythology

TIME FRAME TEXT ASSESSMENTS September Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (anthology/class textbook) ●Creative writing Creation Myth ​ ​ ● Creation stories ●Creative writing Flower Myth ● Icarus and Daedalus ●Collaborative group work Wim Coleman’s Nine Muses: Modern Plays from Classic Myths (plays) ​ ​ ● Journal Entries ● Pandora ● Creation Myth Skit ● God/goddess posters ● Quizzes October Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (anthology/class textbook) ●Children’s Book: modern retelling of Perseus ​ ​ ● Perseus ●Collaborative group work ● Atalanta ●Journal entries ● Echo and Narcissus ●Quizzes ●Insect Myth

Wim Coleman’s Nine Muses: Modern Plays from Classic Myths (plays) ​ ​ ● Orpheus and Eurydice ● Demeter and Persephone November Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (anthology/class textbook) ● Collaborative group work ​ ​ ● Dionysus ● Journal entries ● Quizzes Wim Coleman’s Nine Muses: Modern Plays from Classic Myths (plays) ​ ​ ● Phaeton ● Eros and Psyche December Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (anthology/class textbook) ● Independent Project ​ ​ ● Jason and the Quest of the Golden Fleece ● Board Game Project ● Quizzes ● Class Participation English Elective: Mythology

January Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (anthology/class textbook) ● Teacher for the Day / Presentation ​ ​ ● Sisyphus ● Political Cartoon ● Trojan War Unit ● Collaborative group work Wim Coleman’s Nine Muses: Modern Plays from Classic Myths (plays) ● Journal entries ​ ​ ● Quizzes

English Elective: Mythology

Online Resources: “The Sword of Damocles” – songs, news articles February & March Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (anthology/class textbook) ● Collaborative group work ​ ​ ● Trojan War Unit continued ● Journal entries ● The Odyssey ● Quizzes ● Aeneas ● Class Discussion/Debate o Part One: From Troy to Italy o Part Two: The Descent into the Lower World o Part Three: The War in Italy

Online Resources: Flocabulary, Videos, Lectures, & Animations April & May Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (anthology/class textbook) ● Board Game ​ ​ -Heracles ● Quizzes Part 5: The Great Families of Mythology ● Journal Entries -Chapter 17: The House of Atreus ● Class Discussion ● Tantalus and Niobe ● Family Tree ● Agamemnon and His Children ● Art Project/PhotoStory/PowerPoint ● Iphigenia among the Taurians -Chapter 18: The Royal House of Thebes ● Cadmus and His Children ● Oedipus ● Antigone ● The Seven Against Thebes -Chapter 19: The Royal House of Athens ● Cecrops ● Procne and Philomela ● Procris and Cephalus ● Orithyia and Boreas ● Creusa and Ion

Excerpts from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (narrative poems) ​ ​

English Elective: Mythology

Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (anthology/class textbook) ​ ​ -The Less Important Myths o Midas o Aesculapius o The Danaids o Glaucus and Scylla o Eryischthon o Pomona and Vertumnus -Brief Myths Arranged Alphabetically

Wim Coleman’s Nine Muses: Modern Plays from Classic Myths (plays) ​ ​ -Prometheus Unbound

Play: Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound ​ June Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (anthology/class textbook) ● Quizzes ​ ​ ● Class Discussions Part 7:Norse Mythology ● Journal Entries -Introduction to Norse Mythology ● Journal Project: Google Sites -The Stories of Signy and Sigurd -The Norse Gods -The Creation -The Norse Wisdom (reviewed fall, 2020)