I chose to do Ovid's Metamorphoses this week because I love greek mythology!
Deucalion and Pyrrha
Setting
- Mount Parnassus
- Phocis, Greece
- Near Delphi
- Possible picture?
Characters
- Jupiter (Zeus)
- Neptune (Posiedon)
- Deucalion
- Main Male
- Pyrrha
- Main Female
- Deucalion's Wife
- Themis
- Goddess of Law and Order
Plot
- Zeus is angry with how the Humans have been behaving
- He decides to flood the world
- Poseidon helps
- Deucalion and Pyrrha and the only two humans who survived
- They ask Themis for help repopulating the World
- Themis tells them to throw rocks over their shoulders
- Each rock tossed morphs into a human
Things to Explore
- This flood sounds similar to the Noah's Ark story in the bible
- Is there any truth to these stories?
This, along with the rest of the stories in this unit, all occurred because of Jupiter (Zeus). Either directly or because of his offspring Perhaps there's a way to link them together into one continuous narrative?
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| Zeus. As a general rule, it's all his fault. Source: Wikipedia |
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Oh my gosh, Jessica, yes: I vote for a new strategy! Each reading assignment should take about an hour (two hours total per week, kind of like coming to class for two class meetings if you think about it like that) ... so read all the pages, but take notes only on something that REALLY grabs your attention, something you think you can use for a story of your own. If you do that for your Reading Notes posts, A and B, then when storytelling times comes around, you should be able to make a quick decision about which story you want to retell and jump right in. :-)
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