GREEK MYTHOLOGY, LEGENDS AND HEROES

The Cleveland Museum of Art presents this interdisciplinary model unit that asks class members to explore how the same themes are presented in the folktales and art of several cultures.

Help your middle schoolers identify personal experience narratives in their own lives through telling stories themselves and from family members or other adults. They study personal experience narratives in Swapping Stories and compare...

Young scholars identify the main ideas in a passage from literature, and in a painting, and justify their conclusions using logic and language arts skills.

Learners explain the place of the legend of Herakles in ancient Greek life and compare ancient and modern legends in an essay.

Students examine the paintings of various Indiana artists. Using the internet, they relate the landscapes shown to the history of the state and how it affected Native Americans. Using the information they gathered, they write story...

Learners create a book using art, problem solving and language skills. They illustrate and write a tall tale. They sculpt a character from their tall tale.