Standards Essential Questions Skills Content Vocabulary/terms Timeless Tales of Mythology Edith Hamilton RI ,6-7,

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1 Course: Mythology (College Prep) Students in this course will study the stories told by people around the world, stories that seek to answer life s essential questions. Students will explore connections between the stories of various cultures and historical periods and examine how cultures are similar and different in the answers they offer to life s essential questions. Daily reading s will include creation myths, the hero s cycle, epic tales, ancient religious texts and modern mythology. Assignments in this course include journal and creative writing, individual and group projects, daily classroom discussions, quizzes, tests, and at least one formal paper. Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings Human beings are remarkably alike in their principal values and concerns through time. Myths often reveal the values of the culture that produces them. Myths are a way of explaining the unexplainable; some are based on fantastic beings, but some are based on known people and events. Mythology has had and still is having a significant impact on our lives today. Myths often reveal a great deal about ourselves as well as the world around us. Unit 1: Creation and the Natural World Approximate Time Frame: 2 Weeks Standards Essential Questions Skills Content Vocabulary/terms RL , 10 Why do people study myths? RI ,6-7, W , 4, 9-10 How do myths explain the natural world? What current myths exist to explain the unknown? responses, group activities and assignments: 1. Graphic Organizers 2. Study questions 3. Venn Diagrams 4. Whole group discussion Objective test Nonfiction Campbell Media Campbell and Bill Moyers Jungian archetypes, collective unconscious Polytheistic Matriarchal Anthropomorphic Greek gods and goddesses and their realms: Zeus Poseidon Apollo Demeter Ares Hermes Hephaesthus Artemis Hades Hera

2 Unit 2: The World of Man Approximate Time Frame: 2 Weeks Standards Essential Questions Skills Content Vocabulary/terms RL , 4, 6 Where did man come from? How does myth explain human Jungian archetypes and concepts from unit 1 W , 4 nature? SL ,4 Does man control his own responses, group activities fate? and assignments: What happens after death?

3 Unit 3 : Epic Journeys Approximate Time Frame: 3 Weeks Gilgamesh R, 10 What qualities make a person a good leader? W , 4, 7 What is true friendship? responses and group Does fate determine a activities and assignments: person s future, or is a person responsible for his/ her own destiny? What factors might influence a person to choose a more difficult lifestyle over a more comfortable one? Since all life ends in death is life futile? Epic/ epic hero/ hero cycle narrative oral tradition archetypes character situation symbolic incantation lament ominous deluge firmament nether travail slough stupor libation transgressor pallid vanguard consummate harlot raiment supplicant promontory libation

4 Unit 4: Heroes and Their Quests Approximate Time Frame: 4 Weeks R, 10 What qualities does a hero possess? hero cycle archetypal terms/ W , 4, 7 How do the Greek heroes patterns influence modern culture? responses and group What part does the quest activities and assignments: play in heroic adventure? Heroic characteristic charts Rough drafts of final synthesis paper Students will choose an ancient hero (other than Greek or Roman) and a modern hero. They will compose a 3-4 page synthesis paper comparing heroic characteristics. Nonfiction Campbell Media Campbell and Bill Moyers

5 Unit 5: Til We Have Faces Approximate Time Frame: 4 Weeks R, 10 How do our beliefs affect our responses to reality? Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis W , 4 What is love? responses and group What is beauty? activities and assignments: What factors promote and/or stifle personal growth? 1. Quizzes, discussions, and journals archetypal terms and patterns motifs theme development character change gender roles addle cavil carrion clemency contrivance disaffection expiation foment hamper lecherous mercenary pious seminal smite