First Myth Project
What You Will Learn
The
Task
Timeline
The Twelve Olympians
Resources
The Process
Sample of Student Work
What You Will Learn
Each one of you will be assigned one of the Olympian gods to study.
For your project, you will need to know:
- where the god comes from (how he was born or created)
- what his powers and areas of expertise are
- one myth which illustrates these powers or is in some way well known.
The Task
Your project will consist of three parts:
- a one page write up (typed) of the information requested above
- an oral presentation to the class of the god and the myth
- an artistic representation of the god or the myth--you can do anything
you want for this, but don't make it small, colorless, and last minute.
Your project should help people remember something about your god or myth.
See me for suggestions if you need to.
Timeline:
We will discuss this because I want to see how the research end of
this goes in the calc room. Preliminarily, I will say that I am anticipating
that the written part will be due on February 2nd and the project will be
due on Feb. 10th. The oral component of the project will be done with Mrs.
Siwinski in the calc room using Power Point. Each part of this project will
be graded separately. Once the presentations are made in class, everyone
is responsible for knowing the myth and the information given.
The Twelve Olympians
| Jupiter (Zeus) |
Venus (Aphrodite) |
| Vulcan (Hephaestus) |
Mars (Ares) |
| Bacchus (Dionysus) |
Mercury (Hermes) |
| Juno (Hera) |
Neptune (Poseidon) |
| Dis (Pluto; Hades) |
Apollo |
| Diana (Artemis) |
Minerva (Athena) |
Resources
The Encyclopedia Mythica
A searchable database for text and pictures of Greek and Roman Gods.
Princeton Mythology
Page
Text and pictures on not only the Gods but other creatures found in
myths.
Folklore,
Myth and Legend
From Children's Literature Web Guide Folklore and Myth Stories.
Greek Mythology Compare
to Norse Mythology
Gives easy to understand information on Greek and Roman Mythology
and great pictures on each of the Gods.
The Classics Page
Folklore and Mythology
Electronic Text
Mythology on the Web
Classical
Mythology by Geography
Women in Classical Mythology
Amazons in Greek
Mythology
Myth and Legend from
Ancient Times to Space Age
Gods, Goddess and Myths
General Folklore
and Mythology
Ancient
Myths and Legends
Classical
Myths
The Process
- This project will give experience using your server account. So
before your start working log into your server account. If you are fuzzy
on this process follow the instructions for logging into the server on
the Multitasking Handout. Once you are logged
in, open your account folder and make a new folder called myth. Go to File
and select New Folder. calling it "myth".
- You will spend two days finding the information you need about your
God. You will follow the instructions on multitasking
to take notes using a word processed document and Netscape.
- Once you have all your information you will have two days to type
your one page paper using Microsoft Word, saving the document to your servdr
account in the folder called myth.
- Once your paper is completed you will be introduced to PowerPoint.
Following the PowerPoint presentation handout
you will construct an slide presentation to be given to your peers.
This project developed by Megan
Glendinning for the Germantown Academy
Middle School with technical assistance from Carol
Siwinski, Curricular Technology Specialist.