Grade: 4 Quarter 1
Unit 1: Greek Mythology (SAMPLE)
By the end of the unit, students will answer the following writing prompt: Think about the characters, settings, and/or events in mythology that you have been learning about.
Think about specific details that helped develop the characters, setting and events.
Develop a narrative based on an imagined event that explains something about the nature world (e.g. How a zebra got its stripes). Describe in depth a character and setting using
descriptive details, and a clear sequence of events.
Week
Mentor text
Supplemental
Standards
text/Multimedia
1
“The Lightning
Thief: Percy
Jackson and the
Olympians”
By Rick Riordan
Chapters 1-5
Reading
-Intro to Greek Gods
Comprehension
Video:
Strategy:
http://www.youtube.c
Schema/Connectio
om/watch?v=eJCm8W
ns
5RZes
Writing
Speaking/Listening
Language
Assessment
W4.5
SL.4.1
L.4.1
Exhibit A:
W.4.8
SL.4.2
L.4.2
Graphic
W.4.9
SL.4.6
L.4.3.
Standard:
-Cronos and Zues
Informal
Setting
Organizer
L.4.6
RL.4.1
http://www.halexandr
ia.org/dward377.htm
RL.4.3
-Perseus
http://edweb.sdsu.ed
u/people/bdodge/sca
ffold/gg/perseus.htm
l
-Minotaur
http://www.ancientgreece.org/culture/m
ythology/minotaur.ht
ml
2
“The Lightning
Thief: Percy
Jackson and the
Olympians”

Dionysus
http://www.theoi.com
/Olympios/Dionysos.h
Comprehension
W4.5
SL.4.1
L.4.1
W.4.8
SL.4.2
L.4.2
Strategy:
Schema/Connectio
ns
Exhibit B:
Character
Analysis
Graphic
By Rick Riordan
tml
Chapters 6-10
Standard:

Hermes
SL.4.6
L.4.3
RL.4.3, RL.4.1
W.4.9
Comprehension
W4.5
SL.4.1
L.4.1
W.4.8
SL.4.2
L.4.2
W.4.9
SL.4.6
L.4.3
Organizer
L.4.6
http://www.ancientmythology.com/greek
/hermes.php

Athena
http://www.theoi.com
/Olympios/AthenaMy
ths.html

Fury/
Erinyes
http://www.theoi.com
/Khthonios/Erinyes.ht
ml
3
“The Lightning
Thief: Percy
Jackson and the
Olympians”
By Rick Riordan
Chapters 11-15

Aphrodite
http://www.mythweb.
com/encyc/entries/ap
hrodite.html

Demeter
http://greekmythologystories.wikispaces.co
m/Demeter+and+Pers
ephone

Medusa
http://www.shmoop.c
om/perseusmedusa/myth-
Strategy:
Visualizing
Standard:
RL.4.3, RL.4.1
W4.3*
L.4.6
Exhibit C:
Plot
Structure
Graphic
Organizer
text.html
4
“The Lightning
Thief: Percy
Jackson and the
Olympians”
By Rick Riordan

Ares
http://www.mythency
clopedia.com/AmAr/Ares.html#b
Chapters 16-20

Hera
Comprehension
W4.5
SL.4.1
L.4.1
Exhibit D:
W.4.8
SL.4.2
L.4.2
Context
W.4.9
SL.4.6
L.4.3
Strategy:
Visualizing
Standard:
RL.4.3, RL.4.1,
RL.4.4*
http://www.sacred-
Organizer
L.4.6
W4.3
L.4.4*
W.4.5*
texts.com/cla/mgr/m
Clues
gr05.htm

Hercules
http://www.greekmyt
hology.com/Myths/He
roes/Heracles/heracl
es.html
5
“The Lightning
Thief: Percy
Jackson and the
Olympians”
By Rick Riordan

Persephone
http://www.artfulalf.
com/persephonemyth.
html
Comprehension
Visualizing
SL.4.1
L.4.1
W4.4*
SL.4.2
L.4.2
SL.4.6
L.4.3
Standard:
RL.4.3, RL.4.1
Chapters 21-22
W4.3
Strategy:
W4.5
W.4.8

Hades
http://www.theoi.com
/Khthonios/Haides.ht
ml
Persephone and
Hades
http://www.greekmyt
W.4.9
L.4.6
L.4.4
End of Unit
Writing
Prompt
hsgreekmythology.com/
myth-of-hades-andpersephone/
*note: Bold standards indicates when new standard is introduced
**note: standards highlighted are the focus standards for the week
Week Sample
Day
Monday
Agenda
I.
Teacher Notes
Hook


RZes
TW model how to fill in
organizer for the first two
Gods. SW work in small
B. Meet the Gods Graphic Organizer
groups/partners to fill in the
rest of the organizer.
(Organizer can be used as a
resource throughout the unit
while reading the mentor text
to understand characters
introduced throughout).

“Cronos and Zeus” supplemental
A. 1st read
B. 2nd read
TW supply students with the
text.

TW model how to perform a
Meet the Gods of
Mt. Olympus Graphic
graphic organizer.
Goddesses
II. Close Read

video and meet the gods
A. Video Overview of the Greek Gods and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJCm8W5
TW will introduce unit with
Assessments
Organizer

Close Read “Cronos
and Zeus”
C. Collaborative Conversation
close read by reading
aloud/coding the text for the
D. 3rd read
first two paragraphs under a
document camera for all
students to see.

1st read: thinking about the
teacher modeling, SW complete
a close read for the text
focusing on ANY TYPE of
thinking they may have as they
read (connections, questions,
visualizing, inferences,
important parts, etc) using a
colored pencil.

2nd read: TW explicitly model
reading the same text again,
but this time focusing on
making connections (T-S, T-T,
T-W, T-M) while activating
your schema. Thinking about
the teacher modeling, SW
reread the text while focusing
on making connections using a
different colored pencil than
the first read

Collaborative Conversation: TW
pose questions and host a
collaborative conversation
around the text following the
collaborative conversations
format.

3rd read: thinking of their new
understandings from the
collaborative conversation, SW
reread the text and write ANY
TYPE of new thinking they have
using a third color pencil.
III.
Closing

TW close the lesson by asking
students to share any new
understandings of the text and
Greek Gods and Goddesses
that they may have based on
the text and video they viewed
for the day.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday