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Note Card Assignment for Greek Myth ActivityNote Card Assignment for Greek Myth Activity
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Jefferson Township Schools
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6th - 8th
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Note Card Assignment for Greek Myth

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Your young learners will keep track of fifteen Greek gods and goddesses, such as Aphrodite, Poseidon, and Zeus, by creating notecards listing each of their names, titles, and symbols. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

greek gods, gods, myths, roman gods, greek mythology

Additional Tags

greek mythology, greek gods, roman gods, social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Add a research component to the assignment by having learners cite their sources of information on their notecards
  • Use notecards throughout your Greek mythology unit for a variety of activities, such as having learners draw two random characters from their individual pile and write a narrative about the two

Pros

  • Assignment clearly depicts how notecards should be designed
  • Additional materials include a reading resource that provides a very broad overview of the various gods and goddesses

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.4 WHST.6-8.7

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