Make connections by seeing if they can find modern examples (eg. Mercury insurance, Mercury cars, Pluto the dog, etc.). You might have them find a similar myth in another culture so they can compare cultures (hero myths like Hercules and Sigried, creation myths, etc.). Also, they can write their own myths or find modern myths such as Superman, Batman, Hulk Hogan, Freddy Krueger, etc. Bill
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 7:06 AM Subject: [MOSAIC] Looking for some ideas for Greek myth unit > I will soon be starting a mythology unit for my 6th graders. Students have a > lot of choice in what myths they choose to read as they move through the unit. > Each student will read at least 7 myths and one of our over riding questions > will be what makes something a myth. I need to somehow keep track of what > they are reading and how they are thinking. The students have had lots of work > with the reading strategies. I do not want to do summaries after the > readings. I've considered a daily journal where they tell me what they accomplished > that period or maybe a metacognition journal where they track what they are > thinking as they read. Any other ideas that would make this unit both > enjoyable as well as entrenched in the strategies.? > > Thanks. > > Pat - grade 6 - NY > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.28/604 - Release Date: 12/26/06 > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
