Greek Myths

1. Greek Myths Focus: To plan a creative myth.

2. Myths • What is a myth? • A myth is a made-up story that explains the existence of a natural event — such as where thunder comes from or why we have four seasons. • The main characters in myths are usually gods or supernatural heroes . • As sacred stories, myths are often approved by rulers and priests and closely linked to religion.

3. Persephone • Who was Persephone? • What happens in the myth Persephone? • Four seasons – Winter, Autumn, Spring and Summer.

4. Hades – Lord of the Underworld Mount Olympus Zeus – King of the Gods

5. Why snow falls from the sky! • In your talk partners think of five words to describe snow. • In your talk partners think of a creative idea as to why it might snow. Not scientific!

7. Mind Mapping • We are now going to create our own mind map to help us plan our myth ‘Why snow falls from the sky’. • What do you think we should put in the middle of our map? Something to summarise our myth. • How many branches will we need? At least sixmain branches: • Characters – Hero, monster, damsel, • Introduction – create a setting • Build up – set your hero on a quest • Main body – surround your hero with conflicts • Conclusion – bring your myth to an end • The natural event – according to the story...

8. How many second level branches will we need? • Will we use third level branches? • Make sure you use the keys words for your myth. • Characters names, feelings, emotions, places, etc. • Use lots of colour in your map, colour co-ordinating branches. • Now it’s your turn....

9. Focus: To plan a creative myth • ‘Why snow falls from the sky’ • Share your myth plan with your talk partner. • Does the plan show a story that will explain why snow falls from the sky? • Discuss sentence openers to start your myth. • Draw a face to represent how you feel about your plan.