Hope everyone had a wonderful Winter Break! We are coming back strong with myth vs. legend and getting ready for semester exams. Exams start MONDAY!!! Please study all weekend and next week. I will be going over the study guide with students and uploading it to the blog Friday. The exam schedule for next week is as follows...
Monday- 2nd period exam, 9th period exam
Tuesday- 3rd period exam, 7th period exam
Wednesday- 6th period exam, 8th period exam
Please make sure you get a good night's rest and get here in time for breakfast!
Until our exam review on Friday we are comparing and contrasting myths with legends and working on writing our myths. I have attached the myth writing sheets we have started. Tomorrow we will be focusing on researching the event in our myth. Students had to figure out this sentence in order to write their myth: My myth explains why we have _________. We read the myth of Persephone which explained why we have seasons. We also read Pandora's Box which explains why we have hate, crime, disease, and hope in the world. Now it's thier turn to create a story that explains why we have something.
This website is great! The two we used to compare and contrast were "The witch in the bottle" (legend) and "Pandora's Box" (myth). http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/
Homework: Read and log twice this week. Total of an hour with parent signature. I always check them on Fridays.
*I let students make up missing reading by reading over break. If you see anything below 100 when looking at their reading log grades then they chose not to make it up. I spoke to each student individually and told them how much reading they had to make up.
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