Mythology Series: Titans, The Gods of Creation

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Engage Secondary English Language Arts students with the Titans’ story, the second-generation gods, and goddesses of Greek Mythology. Learn each Titan’s backstory, where they came from, their relationship to the Giants and the Olympians. There is a clash of the Titans, that’s for sure. Hesiod called it the Titanomachy. Use this fully packed three-day lesson plan, designed especially for students aged 13-17 years old.

• This resource is optimized for distance learning. The product includes a durable Google Apps link. Access and modify this resource for student use on Google Classroom and other classroom management sites.

Use this Digital Download for a Three-day English Language Arts Lesson — Using my tested-in-the-classroom resources, your kids will want to discuss good and bad parenting skills, cursed families, sins of the fathers, women’s role in myth, power, and the clash of the Titans! So I have loaded this resource with TEN reading cards and a set of THIRTY questions that will get your students talking, writing, and wondering!

Common Core Standards: This resource aligns well with the reading literature standard: “Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux-Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).”

This Resource Includes the Following Features:

• 1 Teacher’s Three-day Lesson Calendar

• 10 Art + Literature Reading Cards

• 1 Key Characters and Places Worksheet

• A Bank of 30 Trivia-style Questions about the Titans

• 10 Frayer Model Vocabulary Cards (with student sample)

• Half-Sheet 3-2-1 Exit Ticket
• 1 Essay Writing Activity (with two visual starters and prompts)

• 1 Further Reading List

• Answer Keys for all student-facing documents

• Bonus: 3-Box Notetaking Template — Embed accountability into the lesson by having students annotate the text cards with notes, questions, and a summary of what they’ve read and comprehended.

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

• For any myth-related unit!
• On the Clash of the Titans!
• Use this resource as a stand-alone lesson or pair it with a larger unit on Myth, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, The Theogony of Hesiod, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, or Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, or Parallel Myths by J.F. Bierlein.