Mythology Series: The Myth of the Titan Prometheus
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Welcome to the Stones of Erasmus! - I have been an educator since 2008. I have concentrated my work in independent schools in Louisiana and New York City. I have taught English Language Arts and Humanities-based classes to middle, high school, and undergraduate students.
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If you want to teach philosophy to young people, use this lesson plan that introduces students to Plato's theory of reality. I was inspired to create this resource when I…
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Engage English Language Arts Students with the ancient Greek Myth of Daphne and Apollo — a tale of unrequited love gone a bit tree-y! The story of Apollo and Daphne…
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Write a movie review with your students. Provide scaffolding to ensure that adolescent English Language Arts students address an audience, provide details and support their thinking, build background knowledge, identify…
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Engage high school English Language Arts students with James Joyce's Modernist coming-of-age short story "Araby."Joyce's short story is a somber, tender telling of the inner emotional life of a working-class…
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Do you need to supplement your mythology unit with a fun movie? Eternals (2021) is a superhero movie that pays homage to world mythology. One central theme of the film is how…
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Engage Middle and High School Students with the Timeless Tale of "Peter and the Wolf"The story and score of Peter and the Wolf are Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's masterpiece. In…
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Your students will read about a king who can turn whatever he touches into gold. It's a myth made even more well-known by a Skittles commercial and a short animated Disney…
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Engage English Language Arts middle and high schoolers with the ancient Greek Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice — the lovers who lost each other twice!Music began with the gods. And then Orpheus…
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Engage English Language Arts Students with the ancient Myth of Pandora's Box! — a creation story that pops open the lid on things. Curiosity killed the cat. And Pandora opened a…
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What is myth? Popular usage suggest this term means something that is not true or unfounded — as when someone might say, regarding the latest health fad, "Well, detox cleanses…
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Jean Fritz's classic autobiographical novel recounts the story of the author's sojourn in the Chinese city of Hankow (modern-day Wuhan) as a young girl in the 1920s. Add depth to…
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Enliven the classroom with a rich discussion about motivation and delayed gratification. Watch a delightful video of an experiment with marshmallows that drives home the idea of the lesson —…
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Teach TWO week's worth of material on the Titan Gods, the Greek Story of Creation, The Dethronement of Kronos, The Rise of the Olympians, and the Earliest Heroes. Start with an…
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The story of Theseus is a classic tale of ancient Greece and Crete. Theseus, the son of King Aegeus of Athens, is sent to Crete as one of the seven youths…
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Engage English Language Arts Students (grades 8-12) with the ancient, tragic story of Niobe — the weeping woman of Thebes!The story of Niobe is tragic and indicative of the human propensity…
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Don’t fly too close to the sun. Don’t overstep your boundaries. Don’t feed your own kid as dinner at a dinner party! Don’t throw caution to the wind. Teach a…
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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…
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What is the meaning of life? What is really real? Why is Socrates talking to random people? How do I know I am not dreaming right now? What if I…
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If you want to teach philosophy with young people, use this bundled lesson plan that introduces students to philosophy. Combining two educational digital downloads — "What is Philosophy?" and "What is Freedom?"…
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If you want to teach philosophy with young people, use this lesson plan that introduces students to doing philosophy. "What is Philosophy?" Task Cards are designed to get students talking about philosophical questions and problems…
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You can teach a unit on cautionary tales of the hero with your middle and high school English Language Arts students with this five-lesson "myth & tales" bundle. Start with Icarus,…
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Give your students more than just a loose-leaf sheet of paper to take notes. With this FREE standard notecard-sized note-taking template, students can take down notes according to a three-box…
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Bundled writing resources to support your English Language Learners is essential for any middle or high school English Language Arts teacher. Use these five useful tools to either improve students' writing…
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I've combined ten compelling resources I use in middle and high school classes to infuse my lessons with philosophy and ethics-based content.With this bundle, you get the following:1. Plato's Allegory of the Cave Lesson ResourceIntroduce your…
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Encourage student writing at the end or beginning of a lesson with our "Thinking About any Quote" graphic organizers for student writing to provide an informal assessment of your students'…
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What is the meaning of life? What is the experience of the death of God? These essential questions form the basis of two resources from my popular "Philosophy in the Classroom" series. The…
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Why do good things happen to bad people? If God exists, then why is there human suffering? How can we argue for the existence of God while still maintaining the…
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Do clothes make the man? Or should we not trust too much in appearances? Providing middle and high school students with compelling, meaningful, fun, and serious quotations is a great way…
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Engage Middle and High School English Language Arts students with the ancient Greek Myth of Sisyphus — the trickster hero who cheated death! The myth of Sisyphus is the original rolling stone. Students…
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If you want to teach philosophy with young people, use this lesson plan that introduces students to freedom. Freedom Task Cards are designed to get students talking about philosophical questions that arise when we explore…
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If you fly too close to the sun, you're likely to get burned — or so the story goes. Introduce your students to a fairly popular Greek moral tale about an ambitious…
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How the mind works is an essential philosophical problem that forms the basis for a theory of knowledge. In this ready-to-go 45-minute jargon-free lesson, introduce your students to two famous…