Greek Myths Role Cards This activity is in development. Please contribute any suggestions and corrections plus better pictures if you find some or your pupils can produce any. We are in the process of producing a simpler text for another card set and adapting it to a hot seating activity. We are also producing other activities around specific stories e.g. Jason which can be found on the work in progress page. The webaddress for this activity is: http://www.collaborativelearning.org/greekmythrolecards.pdf These can be used in a variety of ways. So far we have produced 24 cards based around several stories: Arion and the Dolphins, Perseus and Medusa, Jason and the Golden Fleece, Pandora’s Box, Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and the fall of Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice, Heracles,and his Labours, Prometheus and the Creation of Men. We need to increase the number to produce a class set of thirty. The cards have information about characters, but not their names. The cards can be grouped into story families. The first activity will probably produce some clues. This will depend on how you organised the cards, since they are not colour coded at the moment. You can colour code them by putting coloured dots on them. You can either organise them so that they have at least two members of a story group to- gether, or you can mix them so they do not meet any related story characters. If characters can find their other family members they will have the bones of their story. They will also find out their names. http://collaborativelearning.org/greekmythrolecards.pdf Greek Myths Character Card Game Hello! These are And this three sisters. Hello! My am three is the king of the They are gods. I am a dog and sisters. We have always have three heads. one eye and one arguing tooth between us Everyone in the class takes or is given a character card. Everyone should read the information on the card two or three times. You do not have to remember the card word for word, but have a good idea about the information on it. Put the card in your pocket, or out of sight, and then find someone else in the room with the same coloured card as you. Pretend to be the character, and introduce your- self in role to your new partner: eg. "Hello! I am a ship. I took Jason to find the Golden Fleece". Your partner should do the same to you. Remember, if either of you get stuck, you can take out your card and look at it. But only if you are stuck. Listen carefully to each other. Now go to find another two people with the same colour card as you. Now you are four, you have to introduce your partner to the others and they have to introduce each other to you. eg: "Hello! 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Youdidnot music festivalinSicily. You are King of Corinth. Yourbest You areKingofCorinth. musician, Arion,wantedtogoa pushed himintothesea.Dolphins You are a brilliant loved want himtogobecauseyou who lovemusictoobroughthim promised tobringbacklotsof sailors stolehistreasure,and prizes, so you lethimgo.The prizes, soyou musician. Everyone comes and his music.Hebeggedyou to hear you play. You went on the Argo with Jason. You were very happily married to barbarous land. Eurydice. Unfortunately, she died, and you went to Hades to try to fetch her back. You played music to Charon to persuade him to take you over the River Styx. You played music to Pluto and Persephone. They released Eurydice on one condition. You were married to Orpheus You have a boat. You are and you were both very happy. a ferryman. You work on While you were dancing in the the River Styx. You take fields and picking flowers, a the spirits of the dead snake bit you. You died, and across the river to the went to the underworld. Your underworld. You have only husband managed to come to brought two people back. fetch you. You were allowed One was Hercules who to follow Orpheus back to came to fetch the dog the world of the living, but if Cerberus. The other was he looked back at you all was Orpheus, who came to lost. Just as he got one foot fetch Eurydice. He looked into Charon’s boat he looked back at her, and she around. became a shade again. You were a very strong baby. Hera, You have three heads and lots of queen of the gods tried to kill you. teeth. You guard the gates of the You strangled two snakes she sent underworld. Only two living to your cradle. You married and had people have passed through the many children. Hera then sent a bad gates. Once Heracles came and took dream. You killed all your children you to the world of the living, but while asleep. You went to the you had to come back. Orpheus came temple to seek forgiveness. You had to fetch his wife. He calmed you to do twelve hard tasks for your with music. He was unlucky though. enemy King Eurystheus. The last He nearly released Eurydice, but task was to go to Hades to fetch looked back a the last moment and the three headed dog Cerberus. lost her forever. very last moment. very music was so good we kingdom is guarded by kingdom is guarded by Cerberus for one of his Cerberus of the underworld. Your Heracles came to borrow Charon the ferryman and the ferryman Charon dog. Only two living people dog. Only You are the king and queen Cerberus the three headed Cerberus have come to your kingdom. have come to your trust us and lost her at the to fetch Eurydice back. His to fetch Eurydice twelve tasks. Orpheus came released her, but he did not You are the wife of Zeus. You were jealous of Heracles. First you sent two snakes to poison him when he was a baby. He strangled them. Then you sent a bad dream which made him strike out with his sword and kill all his children. He did twelve hard tasks to amend for this. You left him alone after that. http://collaborativelearning.org/greekmythrolecards.pdf and he fell in the sea You are a famous killed him. Athene was clever nephew Talos and clever nephew You were jealous of your You were jealous of your craftsman and architect. flew too near the sun, angry so you fled to Crete. so you fled to angry wings melted Minos would not let you go. Minos would not let you You made wings to fly away away You made wings to fly You made the labyrinth for the Minotaur, and then King with your son Icarus. Icarus with your You are a very frightening monster. Your breath can kill. You have a lot of heads. If one gets cut off two grow in its place. King Eurystheus thought you could kill Heracles, but he was too strong and clever for you. He found out that fire stopped you from growing more heads. After your death he went on to catch the golden horned deer, which can run as quick as the wind. You are the son of Daedalus. You are stuck in Crete because your father killed his nephew Talos. Athene You are half man and half bull. You turned Talos into a partridge. He live in a labyrinth in Crete. You only then designed a secret maze. The get to eat every nine years. This is king wan’t let you go in case you give when seven men and seven women away the secret. However, Daedalus are sent from Athens. This time is designing wings from feathers and Theseus came, found his way to the wax so you can fly away like gods. centre of the maze and killed you. You want to fly higher than the He was helped by King Minos’ birds.