CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE OLYMPIAN GODS
LESSON PLANS AND MINDMAPS
CLIL COURSE MATERIALS
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE OLYMPIAN
GODS
Lesson plans and mindmaps
Pilar Torres Carmona
December 2008
Pilar Torres Carmona
IES Narcís Monturiol
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE OLYMPIAN GODS
LESSON PLANS AND MINDMAPS
Lesson plan Unit 1
Topic:
Myth
Mythology.
and KEY SKILLS: Students will able…
 To explain what a myth is and how myths work as metaphorical and moral explanation.
 To apply the new knowledge to their personal experiences.
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS:
Communicative skills: Students will able…
Subject:
Classical  to approach ancient cultures in an adequate way.
Mythology.
The  to interpret and understand the situations she/he will encounter in everyday contexts and beyond using
classical mythology.
Olympian Gods
 to use the communicative resources specific to this subject (descriptions, comparisons, oppositions).
Level: 3 ESO
Methodological skills: Students will be able…
 To access and communicate information using different supports including ICT tools to learn.
Timing: 6 sessions
 to scan and skim texts looking for relevant information.
Personal skills: Students will be able…
 To create, initiate, develop and assess individual or collective activities or projects with creativity,
confidence, responsibility and critical thinking.
Aims: To understand and explain what a myth is and its metaphorical character.
TEACHING OBJECTIVES
LEARNING OUTCOMES
A.CONTENT
A.CONTENT
 Myth as explanation and
“moral education”.
 Myth
opposite
to
philosophy/science.
 Myth as symbol and
metaphor
 Influence of classical
models (iconography) on
our society.
B.COGNITION
 Terms and definitions.
 Mechanisms
of
the
mythological discourse.
 Recognition
and
differentiation of patterns.
 Analysis
of
current
situations
from
a
“mythological” point of
view.
 Evaluation and creation
of cultural products (ads,
publicity).
COMUNICATION
■ Language of learning
At this stage no specific
Students will be able:
vocabulary needed.
 To give a definition of myth Past tenses (revision).
and mythology.
 To
differentiate
between ■ Language for learning
mythological and scientific - Definitions: Some specific
discourses.
vocabulary. Terms and
 To appreciate the classical categories; defining phrases
tradition.
(adjectives, relative clauses...)
- Comparison: Some specific
vocabulary. Similarities and
B.COGNITION
differences; oppositions (while).
Students will be able:
- Descriptions: Some specific
 to
understand
some vocabulary. Poses and actions.
mechanisms
of
the Space expressions.
mythological
discourse
in
contrast
to the scientific ■ Language through
discourse.
learning
 To apply new knowledge to - Language that comes out when
recognise models/patterns.
completing tasks.
 To analyse, evaluate and
synthesize cultural products
(advertisements, publicity).
CULTURE/CITIZENSHIP
Students will be able:
 To understand that there are
different ways to explain the
world.
 To understand that there are
ideologies underlying language
and images.
 To understand the influence of
ancient Greeks and Romans on
our essentially visual Western
society (iconography).
 To apply the new acquired
knowledge
to
their
own
personal experiences.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: Students should be able to apply the new acquired knowledge to new situations.
Pilar Torres Carmona
IES Narcís Monturiol
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE OLYMPIAN GODS
LESSON PLANS AND MINDMAPS
Lesson plan Unit 2
Topic:
Sources
for KEY SKILLS: Students will able…
Classical Mythology
 to identify the most significant Greek and Roman authors and some of their works.
 to appreciate their importance in Western civilisation.
 to consider and respect literary and artistic productions.
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS:
Communicative skills: Students will able…
Subject:
Classical  to approach ancient cultures in a comprehensive way.
Mythology.
The  to understand, perceive and value critically different cultural and artistic forms of expression.
 to use the communicative resources specific to this subject.
Olympian Gods
 To apply her/his basic knowledge of the different cultural and artistic forms of expression to appreciate
Level: 3 ESO
its intrinsic value.
Methodological skills: Students will be able…
Timing: 4 sessions
 To access and communicate information using different supports including ICT tools to learn.
 To scan and skim texts looking for relevant information.
 To transform information into knowledge in order to organize, relate, analyse, synthesise, make
inferences and deductions at different levels of complexity.
Personal skills: Students will be able…
 To interpret and use the body of knowledge about facts and processes to predict consequences.
Aims: To introduce ancient Greek and Roman literature and art as preservers of myths.
TEACHING OBJECTIVES
LEARNING OUTCOMES
COMUNICATION
A.CONTENT
A.CONTENT
 Main sources for Classical
Mythology:
- Literary sources: Homer,
Hesiod,
Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil,
Ovid
- Artistic sources:
Students will be able:
 to understand the importance
of literature (writing) and art
(images) in the transmission of
classical mythology.
 to re-create the myth of the
nine Muses as metaphor of
(oral) poetry.
■ Language of learning
- Main authors’ names, literary
terms (epic/didactic poetry;
playwright, drama, play); art
terms, vases’ names, shapes,
parts.
- Vocabulary related to
representation (represent, depict,
show...)
- BC/AD
■ Language for learning
- Descriptions.
- Captions.
- Expression of possibility and
uncertainty.
- Impersonal phrases (it is said; it
is believed)
■ Language through
learning
- Language that comes out when
completing tasks.
Painting on ceramics,
Murals, Sculpture, Mosaic
B.COGNITION
B.COGNITION
 Main authors’ names, Students will be able:
works and facts.
 to remember the names of
 Ancient Greek pottery: the most significant classical
vases’ names, shapes, use.
authors and to identify some of
 Some mechanisms of their works and life facts.
ancient literature: orality vs.  to classify different artistic
writing; music.
manifestations (esp. pottery).
 Problems
about
the  to analyse the role of memory
transmission
of
ancient in early forms of literature
literature and art.
(orality).
CULTURE/CITIZENSHIP
Students will be able:
 To
understand
some
etymologies: music, museum,
crater, calyx, odyssey, drama...
 To understand the influence of
ancient Greeks and Romans on
Western literature and art.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: Students should remember the main facts about ancient authors; recognise different forms of art; be
aware of the importance of memory in ancient forms of literature and of writing and art in the preservation of myths.
Pilar Torres Carmona
IES Narcís Monturiol
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE OLYMPIAN GODS
LESSON PLANS AND MINDMAPS
Topic: The origin of the KEY SKILLS: Students will able…
world and the gods  to order the main events from Chaos to Zeus.
 to draw the family tree of the Olympian gods.
(Hesiod’s Theogony)
 to understand the gods’ main characteristics in opposition to humans.
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS:
Communicative skills: Students will able…
Subject:
Classical  to approach ancient cultures in an adequate way.
Mythology.
The  to understand, perceive and value critically different cultural and artistic forms of expression.
 to use the communicative resources specific to this subject.
Olympian Gods
 To apply her/his basic knowledge of the different cultural and artistic forms of expression to appreciate
Level: 3 ESO
its intrinsic value.
Methodological skills: Students will be able…
Timing: 4 sessions
 To access and communicate information using different supports including ICT tools to learn.
 To scan and skim texts looking for relevant information.
 To transform information into knowledge in order to organize, relate, analyse, synthesise, make
inferences and deductions at different levels of complexity.
Personal skills: Students will be able…
 To interpret and use the body of knowledge about facts and processes to predict consequences.
Aims: To introduce ancient Greek cosmogony and the family of Olympian gods and their characteristics.
TEACHING OBJECTIVES
LEARNING OUTCOMES
COMUNICATION
A.CONTENT
A.CONTENT
 The
cosmogony
according
to
Hesiod’s
Theogony.
 The
family
of
the
Olympian gods.
 Gods’
characteristics
(compared to humans):
anthropomorphism;
behaviour; reason for their
immortality...
Students will be able:
 to read and understand a
summary of the origin of the
world according Hesiod.
 to organise
the
events
chronologically
and
to
complete a family tree.
 to find out the similarities and
differences between gods and
mortals from original sources.
B.COGNITION
B.COGNITION
■ Language of learning
- Gods’ names;
relationship/family terms;
■ Language for learning
- Expression of generation and
time;
- Cause and effect;
- Contrast;
- Sequence of events.
■ Language through
learning
- Language that comes out when
completing tasks.
CULTURE/CITIZENSHIP
Students will be able:
 To
understand
some
etymologies: chaos, chaotic,
titanic, titanium, geo-, uranium,
eroticism, erotic, aphrodisiac...
 To understand the influence of
ancient Greeks and Romans on
Western art: the birth of Venus,
Saturn devouring his children...
as topics in art history.
 Main gods’ names and Students will be able:
relationships from Chaos to  to remember the names of
Zeus’ divine children.
the most important Greek gods
 Chain of events from and to draw the family tree.
Chaos to Zeus and family  to order chronologically the
tree.
main events from Chaos to
 Family model; behaviour Zeus.
patterns; sexism.
 to recognise some episodes in
 What gods looked like artistic representations.
and how they behaved and  to analyse, evaluate and
why?
synthesise
the
main
characteristics of the Greek
gods and their relationship
with humans.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: Students should be able to order correctly the chain of events from Chaos to Zeus; to complete correctly
gods’ family tree; to identify some episodes in works of art and to evaluate the relationship between gods and mortals.
Pilar Torres Carmona
IES Narcís Monturiol
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE OLYMPIAN GODS
DEFINITIONS: SPECIFIC
VOCABULARY; TERMS AND
CATEGORIES; DEFINING
PHRASES
LESSON PLANS AND MINDMAPS
DESCRIPTIONS: SOME
SPECIFIC VOCABULARY;
POSES AND ACTIONS; SP ACE
EXPRESSIONS
COMPARISON:
SOME SPECIFIC
VOCABULARY; SIMILARITIES
AND DIFFERENCES;
OPPOSITES
LANGUAGE
F OR
NO S PECIF IC
VOCABULARY
NEEDED AT
T HIS ST AGE
LANGUAGE
OF
LANGUAGE
T HROUGH
T ERMS AND
DEF INIT IONS
COMMUNICAT ION
W HAT IS A
MYT H?
MYT HOLOGICAL
DISCOURS E
KNOW LEDGE
COMPREHENSION
W HAT IS
MYT HOLOGY?
CONT ENT
COGNIT ION
APP LICATION
HOW DO
MYT HS WORK?
RECOGNIT ION
OF P AT T ERNS
UNIT 1
MYT H & MYT HOLOGY
ANALYSIS
S YNT HES IS
W HY CLASS ICAL/
GREEK
MYT HOLOGY?
CLAS SICAL MYTHOLOGY. T HE
OLYMP IAN GODS
P ilar Torres Carmona
IES Narcís Monturiol, Barcelona
Pilar Torres Carmona
CURRENT
S IT UATIONS
EVALUAT ION
A WORLD
OF IMAGES
S YM BOLIC
DIMENS ION OF
LANGUAGE
CULT URE
T O INVENT
A BRAND
DIFF ERENT WAYS
T O EXPLAIN THE
W ORLD
SURVIVAL OF
CLASSICAL/
MYTHOLOGICAL
MODELS
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CULT URAL
P RODUCT S
(PUBLICITY)
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE OLYMPIAN GODS
AUT HORS '
NAMES
LIT ERARY
AND ART
T ERM S
BC/AD
T HE NINE
MUS ES
MYT H
GREEK
AND LAT IN
P OET S
Homer
Hesiod
Aeschylus
S ophocles
Euripides
Virgil
Ovid
LESSON PLANS AND MINDMAPS
DES CRIPT ION
UNCERT AINT Y
IMP ERS ONAL
P HRAS ES
LANGUAGE
F OR
LANGUAGE
OF
LANGUAGE
T HROUGH
VASE
S HAP ES ,
USE AND
NAMES
ORAL P OET RY:
MEMORY &
T RANS MIS SION
COMMUNICAT ION
KNOWLEDGE
LIT ERARY
S OURCES
COMP REHENS ION
CONTENT
P AINT ING
ON
CERAM ICS
MURALS
S CULPT URE
MOS AIC
AUT HORS '
NAMES
AND
F ACT S
APP LICAT ION
COGNIT ION
UNIT 2
S OURCES F OR
CLAS SICAL
MYT HOLOGY
ART IS IT C
S OURCES
LOOKING F OR
RELEVANT
INFORMAT ION
ANALYS IS
EVALUATION
CULT URE
ORALIT Y
VS.
W RIT ING
S YNT HESIS
GREEK
P OT T ERY
ETYM OLOGIES
CLAS SICAL M YTHOLOGY.
T HE OLYM PIAN GODS
P ilar T orres Carmona
IES Narcís M onturiol, Barcelona
Pilar Torres Carmona
Music,
mus eum,
odyssey,
crater,
drama...
CLAS SICAL
T RADIT ION
HYPOT HES IZING
ABOUT MYHS
S URVIVAL
OF
CLAS SICAL
MODELS
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RECOGNIT ION
OF P AT TERNS
AND M ODELS
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE OLYMPIAN GODS
LESSON PLANS AND MINDMAPS
CAUSE AND
EFFECT;
CONTRAST
GENERATION
AND TIME
EXPRESSIONS
FA CTS'
SEQUENCES
MAIN
GODS'
NAMES
LANGUAGE
FO R
RELATIONSHIP
AND FAMILY
TERMS
LANGUAGE
OF
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE
TH ROUGH
MAIN GODS'
NAMES AND
RELATIONSHIP S
CHAIN OF
EVENTS
COMMU NICATION
FA MILY
TREE
FROM
CHAOS TO
ZEUS
KNOWLEDGE
COMP REHENSION
HESIOD'S
COSMOGONY
AP P LICATION
TH E TWO
GENERATIONS
OF OLYMP IANS
OLYMP IANS'
FA MILY
IMMORTALITY
ANTHROP OMORP HISM
BEHAVIOUR
CONTENT
COGNITION
UNIT 3 T HE
ORI GIN OF T HE
WORLD AND T HE
GODS
ANALYSIS
HUMAN S
AND GODS
SO ME
ETYMOLOGIES
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BEHAVIOUR
P ATTERNS
REPETITION
OF
STRUCTURES
EVALUATION
CULTURE
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY. THE
OLYMP IAN G ODS
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IES Narcís Monturiol, Barcelona
RECOGNITION
OF SCENES
CHAOS, CHAOTIC,
URANIM,
TITANIUM,
TITANIC...
SY NTHESIS
CLASSICAL
TRADITION
TH E GODS AS
SO CIAL
P ROJECTION
TH E BIRTH OF
AP HRODITE,
CRONUS
DEVOURING HIS
CHILDREN...
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WHAT
GODS
LOOKED
LIKE AND
HOW THEY
BEHAVED
AND WHY