Socratic Circle: Heroes of Mythology

Students participated in a socratic circle discussion activity today. Results were generally underwhelming.

Project Work & Socratic Prep

A handful of my classes reviewed the Hero Chart columns for Perseus and Theseus.

A handful did not, after it became rankly apparent that only about 7 students did the reading and HW. Thanks, 3rd period.

The reading is the easiest part, you churls.

After that, groups had time to work on their Mythological Presentation Projects, which will be due Monday.

HW:

• Prepare Questions for tomorrow's Socratic Circle concerning Heroes
• Bonus link to the Socratic Guidelines for tomorrow
• Read Hercules' chapter.
• Complete his column on the Hero Chart
• Complete one Dialectical Journal.
• Continue to prepare the Multi-Media Presentation Project due Monday
• Don't forget: Membean is still going on!

Jason as Hero; Project Work

First objective for class today was to review Jason's column in the Hero Chart.

The balance of class time was spent working in groups on the Multi-Media Myth Presentation Project (scroll down to see post below.)

HW:

• Read Perseus & Theseus
• Fill out both Hero Columns
• Complete 1 Dialectical Journal entry (two passages total)
• Membean Session 9 is ON! 1/30-2/12
• Continue to work on the Multi-Media Presentation (due Mon)

Membean Quiz, DJs; JASON

First of all, if you haven't already, please sign in to Membean and take your Quiz.

After taking the quiz, Freshman took notes on Dialectical Journal Entries, which will be assigned for each of the 4 Major Heroes we're going to read about:

Created by Mrs. Sottek 2017

Students also received a copy of the Hero Chart, which will organize notes on each of the 4 major heroes that we will read about.

Multi-Media Myth Projects!

Multi-Media Myth Project Assignment Sheet

Digital Resources on pg. 3

These were the slices of Chapters 4, 5, and 6:

Here is a link to the Rubric for the Project!

Freshman Crayon The Universe

What a wonderful of collection of illustrations I received last night!

Link to Freshman 'Creation' Powerpoint

Yo, give it a minute or two to load - there are 77 image-laden slides! It's a big file!

Also, here's tomorrow's schedule of classes, for Homecoming:

HW: Study for Mythology Quiz #2 Ch. 2-3 tomorrow (grades for Quiz #1 available in IC)

• KNOW about Demeter & Dionysus
• KNOW about the creation myths - the genesis of the gods and the different versions of Men they made, various punishments delivered to immortals and mortals alike.
• KNOW the various kinds of gods as they were brought into the world, leading up to the olympians.
• REFRESH your knowledge of the Introduction and Chapter 1 - there will be some information brought back on this quiz because the 1st quiz was so so bad.

Here is a small gift from 3rd and 6th period students:

And here is a small gift from me:

Scene Illustrations: Creation

We're Illustrating (Greek) Creation!

This is a link to the handout explaining the illustration activity.

Here are the various Powerpoint slides with the illustration chunks,

the bullet-point requirements,

and the sample of what a slide might look like.

HW:

• PowerPoint slide that includes information about your scene (main points) as well as 1-2 important direct quotations from Mythology. In order to include your illustration in your slide, you will need to take a picture of your illustration, email it to yourself (or a group member), and ‘Insert’ it into your PPT slide.
• Email your PPT slide to Mr. Tidyman by tonight at 11:59 p.m to jesse.tidyman@mnps.org.
• Subj line of the email contains: [Myth Scene], [Group Members], [Class Period]