Dear Mythology Kids,
1. We completed the Creation myth associated with the Greeks. It is the most significant story, as it explains how the gods came into existence. Please make sure you communicate with someone, as the myth is BIZARRE. Have your "choice," explain the information to you. DO NOT TAKE THE HANDOUT and simply COPY IT!.
2. Even if you missed class, I still expect you to be prepared for class on Thursday Please communicate with someone else in class! Go to the Internet and look up "Greek Creation Myth," in order to obtain assistance!
PC #4
1. Without looking at your flow chart, please explain the Creation Myth....Begin with, "In the beginning, " and go up to where we finished in class on Thursday.
2. Identify examples of the idea that "Chaos creates order" and that "Order creates Chaos" within the Creation Myth. Offer two examples from the myth. You are welcome to use the flow chart for this section of the PC.
THURSDAY, September 7th, 2017
. FLASHCARD TOPICS:
1. We completed the Creation myth associated with the Greeks. It is the most significant story, as it explains how the gods came into existence. Please make sure you communicate with someone, as the myth is BIZARRE. Have your "choice," explain the information to you. DO NOT TAKE THE HANDOUT and simply COPY IT!.
2. Even if you missed class, I still expect you to be prepared for class on Thursday Please communicate with someone else in class! Go to the Internet and look up "Greek Creation Myth," in order to obtain assistance!
PC #4
1. Without looking at your flow chart, please explain the Creation Myth....Begin with, "In the beginning, " and go up to where we finished in class on Thursday.
2. Identify examples of the idea that "Chaos creates order" and that "Order creates Chaos" within the Creation Myth. Offer two examples from the myth. You are welcome to use the flow chart for this section of the PC.
THURSDAY, September 7th, 2017
Practice Quiz for Greek Creation Myth
“Let’s review, my young friends.”
1. 1. “The
Greek Creation Myth is intensely masculine and crude.”
Prove the above quote! Offer an example
from what you have been introduced to so far for the above text.
2.
2. One needs to give the ancient Greeks credit for their creative approach in explaining what
they could not understand. Identify at least FOUR explanatory elements which you found CLEVER!
3. 3.
Symbolism
is used as a continuous literary tool in strong writing. The Greeks LOVED using
symbolism to make their audience THINK HARDER! We have only just begun! There are symbolic elements throughout the Creation myth. Please identify and explain two.
NOTE: If you choose to create flashcards for the characters associated with the Creation Myth, then you are welcome to use 1/4 of the cards on your QUIZ covering the Creation Myth. EACH POINT must be PLACED on ONE CARD.
. FLASHCARD TOPICS:
- 1. Polytheistic/Pagan
- 2. city-state
- 3. Aesthetic myth/Explanatory myth
- 4. Mythology and why?
- 5. Gaea
- 6. Uranus
- 7.. Nyx
- 8.
- 9. Eros
- 10. Aphrodite
- 11. Furies
- 12. Cyclopes
- 13.100 handed ones
- 14. Titans
- 15.
- 16.
- 17.
- 18. Echidna
- 19. Cronus
- 20. Rhea
- 21. Hestia
- 22. Hera
- 23. Demeter
- 24. Poseidon
- 25. Hades
- 26. Zeus
