Week 2: January 9-13 2012
Due Today:
Creation Myths and Gods
of Mount Olympus
 Walk-IN: Sit in your groups and take out your Major
Gods of Mount Olympus Chart, as well as your notes
on the Creation Myths. Then turn in your signed
course expectations.
 Learning Objective:
 Students will be able to identify the 12 major Gods
of Mount Olympus, the Roman name, realm they
rule, and symbols.
 Students will use a graphic organizer to improve
Homework:
their understanding of creation myths.
Study for
 Agenda:
Council of the
 Gods of Olympus Review Jeopardy
Gods Quiz
 Creation Myth Graphic Organizer
Erebus
Night
Out of
Love
Chaos
____________
emerged 2 beings
Gaea
Mother Earth
Day
Uranus
Father Heaven
Whose children included 7 monsters (3 types) and …
Mnemosyne
Hecatoncheires
(100 Hands, 50
Heads)
Cyclopes
Typhon
9 Muses
Zeus
12 Titans
Leto
Artemis
Zeus
Apollo
These two Titans had 6 children
He’s Roman
through Italy
She’s Roman
through Italy
He wears the
toga in this
realm
She wears the
toga in this
realm
The study of
symbolog”he”
The study of
symbolog”her”
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Due Today:
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 Walk-IN: Take out your Council of the Gods chart.
 Learning Objective:
 Students will read to locate information and
collaborate with their peers in order to improve
reading comprehension.
 Agenda:
Homework:
Study for Quiz on
the Gods of
 Major Gods of Olympus Review Check
Olympus
 Lesser Gods in class reading
Two Great Gods of
 Two Great Gods of the Earth (homework) the Earth (pages
48-64)
Honors English 9
Mr. Lawrason
January 9, 2012
The Lesser Gods (pg 36-44)
Lesser Gods of
Olympus
The Gods of the
Waters
The Underworld
Lesser Gods of the
Earth
Due Today:
 Walk-IN: Take out your Council of
Two Great Gods of
the Earth Study
the Gods of Mt.Questions
Olympus chart and turn it in to the in-box.
 Learning Objective:
 Students will demonstrate their understanding of the 12
major Greek Gods/Goddesses and the realms they rule and
symbols attributed to them.
 Students will increase their vocabulary by learning Greek
Root words, and the different meanings they have.
 Students will improve reading comprehension by discussing
selected texts with their peers.
 Students will read to locate information and identify key
main ideas.
 Agenda:
 Council of the Gods Quiz
 Greek Roots (Anthro-Hypno)
 Gods of the Earth Review
 Cornell Notes and Flower Myths
Homework:
Read and
complete Study
Guide for The
Earliest Heroes
(pages 78-85)
 Turn to page ix in your Vocabulary Workbook.
 For each Greek Root, you must write down the
meaning or meanings of the root.
 Next you must find an example of a word with the
Greek Root within.
 After that you must write down the definition of the
word containing the Greek Root.
 You must complete the front side (anthropo-hypno)
for next BLOCKDAY.
Demeter
Dionysis
Ancestry
Goddess of _________
Offspring
What did she lose?
How did she handle it?
What compromise was
made?
 What natural phenomena?
 What help could humans
seek from her?
 Ancestry
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 God of _____________
 Loss
 Capture and Escape
 Dual Nature
 Dionysis to the Rescue
 The immortal soul
Honors English 9
Mr. Lawrason
January 11, 2012
The Flower Myths (89-95)
Narcissus
Hyacinth
Adonis
Due Today:
Flower Myths and
Earliest Heroes
Questions
 Walk-In: Take out your Flower Myths Cornell Notes and
your Study Guide questions on The Earliest Heroes.
 Learning Objective:
 Students will improve reading comprehension by
discussing selected texts with their peers.
 Students will read to locate information and identify
key main ideas.
Homework:
Read and Complete
 Agenda:
Questions for Stories
 Flower Myths Group Review
of Love and
 Earliest Heroes Class Review
Adventure (pages 96 Stories of Love and Adventure
114 and 136-138)
Prometheus
and Io
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Why did Zeus turn the maiden Io
into a cow?
Europa

Explain Europa’s strange dream.

Describe Europa’s flower basket.
Who was Argus?


Who does Zeus turn to for help in
killing Argus?
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How was Argus’s death
accomplished?
Who is responsible for Zeus’s
sudden love for Europa?
Before appearing to Europa, Zeus
changes himself into the form of a
____________________ .
What did Hera do with Argus’s
eyes?
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What did Hera send to plague Io?

Where does the bull take Europa?

What body of water is named for
Io?

Who are the sons of Europa &
Zeus?

What happens once Europa sits on
the beautiful bull’s back?
Cyclops
(Polyphemus)
Who is Polyphemus
and who is father?
What visitor did he
have on his island?
How did he treat
them?
How did his visitor
escape?
What other story was
told about
Polyphemus? How
dies it differ from the
first?
 Turn in your Cornell Notes on the Flower Myths.
 Turn in The Two Great Gods of the Earth and The
Earliest Heroes Study Questions.
 Homework: Read The Stories of Love and Adventure
and complete the study guide questions (both sides of
the handout). Pages 96-114, 136-138.
 Homework: Complete Greek Roots Handout
(anthropo-hypno) for next blockday.