Endymion of Latmos: Greek/Roman Mythology Study – The Sleeping Youth

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Who is the youth Endymion? Depending on your source, he is a King of Elis in Greece or a beautiful teenager from Asia Minor. He is granted (or, some say, cursed) with eternal youth. The catch? He sleeps through it. Selene falls in love with him, maybe Diana or Artemis: every night, the goddess of the moon spies Endymion sleeping on the rocks of Mount Latmos. Endymion is the original man-in-the-moon, and his legend has inspired poets Like John Keats and countless other writers and artists.

This Resource Includes the Following Features:

• Available as a PDF & Google Slides
• 1 Teacher Three-day Lesson Calendar (with Teacher’s Notes)
• 1 Key Characters and Places Anchor Chart
• Orient your learners by identifying the key characters and the geographical location that situates Aphrodite’s birth near Cyprus’s shores in the Mediterranean Sea. Includes a map activity!
• Six Reading Cards:
• Endymion: The Eternal Sleeper of Mount Latmos
• The Sleeping Endymion from The British Museum
• Diana Embracing Endymion: Art & Literature Connection
• An Engraving of Endymion Depicting Several Scenes from the Myth
• Selene Visiting Endymion in His Cave on Mount Latmos
• Endymion in the Mardi Gras Celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Includes a Student-Friendly Reading Protocol.
• 18-Count Question Bank
• Check for understanding with a quick and adaptable question bank.
• Includes a Custom Note-taking template to ensure student accountability!
• Frayer Model Vocabulary Cards (with one student sample)
• Frayer models are a way to get kids to think about vocabulary visually in a four-section square —- A square for meaning, one for examples, another for non-examples, and a sketch. It is amazing to see the work they produce. A great way to decorate your classroom to showcase your kids’ vocabulary-in-text understanding. The cards contain terms, geography, challenging words (as well as contextual entries that fit the story).
• 1 Half-Sheet Exit Tickets
• Exit tickets are a way to get data about your students’ understanding of the lesson right before the class is finished. Collect these exit tickets and quickly see what your students have learned. I also provide two different tickets to offer academic choices for students.
• Writing Activity
• The writing activity serves as a summative assessment as it asks students to trace differences they have found in the myth’s various versions and provide a literary analysis. Includes a grading rubric and sample answer set.
• 1 Further Reading List
• Don’t disregard this further reading list if you think it is merely a bibliography. Share the list with your students or have them do projects based on the available research. Assign different sources to students and organize presentations where learning can go deeper into the story.
• Answer Keys for all student-facing documents
• Teachers always ask for answer keys for my products, so I gave you plenty of guidance on what to expect from students in their written and oral responses.

I created this resource with high school students in mind. It is designed for an English Language Arts Mythology unit — 

• Encourage students to talk about passive versus active forms of love, the trope of the beautiful dreamer, and how myths can be syncretic (i.e., how ancient stories are amalgamated from different cultures and times).
• Use this resource as a stand-alone lesson or pair it with a larger unit on early Greek myths, primordial stories, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, or Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.

Know that this educational digital download supplements a unit on Graeco-Roman Mythology. The lesson also includes links to full-text primary resources online.