Hercules' 11Th Labor Pandora's Box Demeter and Persephone Three Myths

Hercules’ 11th Labor Pandora’s Box Demeter and Persephone Three Myths

Hercules’ 11th Labor: The Golden Apples Vocabulary Level T/44 • Use description to determine word meaning: What does the word gratitude mean in this book? Let’s look for clues for the meaning of this word on page 9. (Answer: thankfulness for help; Clues/Evidence: I am forever in your debt; to show you my gratitude, Hercules, I will tell you how you may accomplish your eleventh hour labor.) Find It! Level 1 Comprehension • Identify facts and details: Prometheus was chained to a . . . (mountain, page 9) Look Closer! Level 2 Comprehension • Identify cause and effect: Why must Titan hold up the heavens for all eternity? Use a cause-and-effect chart for help in answering the question. (he is being being punished; he fought against Zeus, page 11) punished Prove It! Level 3 Comprehension • Make predictions: What clues on pages 12 and 13 help you predict that Hercules has to will use a trick of his own on Atlas? (“‘I will continue to hold up the heavens. But hold up my shoulders are so sore. Please hold the pillar for just one moment more while heavens I go get a cushion for my weary shoulders’”; “Ten minutes passed, then twenty; Atlas waited and waited for Hercules to return.”) Take It Apart! Level 4 Comprehension fought against • Evaluate author’s purpose: Why does the author probably include the sentence Zeus “Then he started to grin mischievously as the twelfth labor formed in his mind,” on page 13? (to get readers interested in the next adventure of Hercules)

Pandora Vocabulary • Use description to determine word meaning: What does the word intrigued mean in this book? Let’s look for clues for the meaning of this word on page 17. (Answer: curious; Clues/Evidence: She was intrigued; her desire to know all things nearly incapacitated her.) Find It! Level 1 Comprehension • Identify facts and details: Zeus wanted a perfect gift for . . . (Epimetheus, page 16)

Y07182_CTDR.indd 1 8/27/10 10:16:52 AM touching the latch Look Closer! Level 2 Comprehension • Identify sequence of events: Pandora’s fingers were touching the latch that held the box shut. Then what happened? Use a sequence-of-events chart for help in turned the latch answering the question. (she slowly turned the latch; she opened the top of the box; an icy wind blew through the room; its force knocked her down; out of the box flew several slimy, snarling, and very ugly creatures, page 19) opened the box Prove It! Level 3 Comprehension • Identify unstated main ideas: The second paragraph of the myth on page 16 is mainly about what help the gods gave to create a perfect woman. Find the clues icy wind blew that support this. (Aphrodite gave beauty; Apollo gave musical talent; Hestia gave a gentle soul; Athena gave a keen desire to know all things.)

knocked her down Take It Apart! Level 4 Comprehension • Analyze text structure and organization: The author uses italics to show what Pandora is thinking. Find this on page 18. (If no one is here to watch me, she creatures blew out thought, then no one will know I disobeyed Zeus.) of the box • Evaluate author’s purpose: Why did the author include the last sentence on page 19? (to tell what the myth explains)

Demeter and Persephone Vocabulary • Use synonyms to determine word meaning: What does the word comely mean in this book? Let’s look for clues for the meaning of this word on page 22. (Answer: beautiful; Clues/Evidence: My beautiful child is truly my greatest joy in the world; Persephone, now a comely young woman.) Find It! Level 1 Comprehension • Identify facts and details: Hades’s stallions made their way down to the . . . (Underworld, page 24) Look Closer! Level 2 Comprehension • Compare and contrast: How is Earth different when Persephone is in the Underworld than it is when she returns to Demeter? (the air grows cold and snow falls and plants die and living things sleep when Persephone is in the Readers’ & Writers’ Genre Workshop Underworld; when she returns to Demeter she allows a warm sun to let other ©2011 Benchmark Education beautiful things grow once again, page 27) Company, LLC. All rights reserved. This card may be photocopied for classroom use only. Prove It! Level 3 Comprehension Based on the Comprehension • Identify unstated main idea: The third paragraph on page 27 is mainly about. . . Through Deductive Reasoning Model developed by Margaret Kilgo. (Answer: what Demeter will do during the four months that Persephone is in Hades; Clues/Evidence: “But during those four months, I will need to rest from my duties tending Earth; for those four months, nothing will grow or be harvested; Earth will reflect my feelings and become cold and barren.) Take It Apart! Level 4 Comprehension • Evaluate author’s purpose: Why does the author probably include the illustration on page 23? (to show what the Underworld looked like) • Analyze text structure and organization: The author tells readers how the myth explains something about the world. Where can you find this? (page 27)

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