Myth and Tales 3-Week Unit for Middle and High School English Language Arts

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You can teach a three-week unit on cautionary tales of the hero with your middle and high school English Language Arts students with this ten-lesson “myth & tales” bundle. Start with Tantalus, the king who fed his son to the gods, and end the unit with Sisyphus, the trickster hero who chained up Death. Note — each lesson pack comes equipped with a Google Apps link to create digital files — great for distant learning.

3-Week Myth & Tales Bundle Includes:

• What Is Myth? — Introductory lesson to frame the unit with six characteristics of myth
• 21 Frayer Model Set for Myth-related Literary Terms and Vocabulary
• The Ancient Greek Myth of Tantalus — The King Who Fed His Own Son to the Gods!
• The King Midas Tale — Based on the Original Sources
• Phaëthon — The Boy who Dared to Ride the Chariot of the Sun
• Ixion — The King who Betrayed Zeus (and murdered a man)
• The Cautionary Tale of Icarus — The Boy Who Flew Too Close to the Sun
• The Ancient Greek Myth of Sisyphus — “The Original Rolling Stone”
• Two Free Practice Tests
• 10 Everyday Words and Phrases in Greek Mythology — Connect myth to our contemporary English Language!
• Short Film Study — Peter and the Wolf Student Viewing Guide

I recommend using this unit for a middle and high school myth unit! Use it for:

• On characteristics of the failed hero (and as a pre-lesson on the hero’s journey).
• Use it also in a genre unit on cautionary tales or tales of unusual punishments in history!
• Use these resources as stand-alone lessons or, pair it with a larger unit on Myth, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, or Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Parallel Myths.

Know that this educational digital download is a supplement to a unit on Greek Mythology. Each lesson includes links to full-text primary resources but the product itself does not contain copies of the individual myths.

For resources similar to this one see my:

• Teaching the Industrial Revolution with William Blake’s “London”
• and my popular Plato’s Cave lesson!

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