Heroes+Real+and+Mythical

For this last nine weeks, Social Studies is integrated into Language Arts. Please complete activities during your Language Arts block (after TAKS). Students will need to read: myths, legends, tall tales, and about real life heroes (past and present). Students will then choose one character to create a "Hero Box." Students will present their Hero Boxes to the class in a show and tell style.

Here are the readers we have with some suggested activities:

__**Tall Tales and Legends:**__ Febold Feboldson Gib Morgan John Henry Alfred Bulltop Stormalong Joe Magarac Sam Patch Slue-Foot Sue and Pecos Bill
 * __Myths:__**

Welcome to Mount Olympus (Introduction to Gods and Goddesses) Curiosity and the Box (Pandora) Carved to Perfection (Pygmalion) A Trip Around the World (Phaethon and Apollo) The Golden Touch (King Midas) The Mysterious Horse (Trojan War) A Tale of Two Spinners (Arachne and Athena) An Amazing Battle (Theseus and the Minotaur) Music Makes the Underworld Go 'Round (Orpheus and Eurydice) Dangerous Heights (Daedalus and Icarus) Gossip and Vanity (Echo and Narcissus)


 * __Suggested Activities:

Reader's Theater:__** [|~7965483.pdf] [|Tale of 2 Spinners - Reader's Theatre Story of Arachne.doc] [|Theseus and the Minotaur Reader's Theater.doc] [|Reader's Theater Pandora's Box.doc]

__**Chart**__ - Greek and Roman Gods as you read about them, Tall Tale Heroes and you read about them Summaries Using the Lined/Graphic Paper (I'll get this to you) Character Traits GO\ Create Timelines of Real Heroes Lives Venn Diagrams__** - compare characters, settings, changes, etc __**Author's Tools**__ - similies, idioms, etc [|authors tools.pdf]
 * __Main idea GOs

[|Venn Diagram.pdf] [|Greek and Roman Gods and Goddess Chart.docx]
 * __Write Your Own Tall Tales__** - in a pop up book format (I'll get a copy of this to you as well)

__**Hero Box Performance Assessment:**__ Do we even want to do this? Student's choose a hero (real or mythical) and design a box (cereal or shoe) with facts and artifacts about that character. Outside: Picture of the hero, explanation of why that hero was chosen, quotes from that person, important actions/actvities of that person's life/story, etc. Inside box are artifacts that are significant to that person (example, Davy Crockett: coon-skin cap, a picture of his home state or of the Alamo, etc)

Heroes Real and Mythical TEKS:3.10B identify historic figures who have exemplified good citizenship: // Jane Addams, Helen Keller, and //Harriet Tubman 3.10C identify and explain the importance of acts of civic responsibility: // obeying laws and voting // 3.10D identify ordinary people who exemplify goodcitizenship3.13A identify the heroic deeds of state and national heroes: // Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett // 3.13B retell the heroic deeds of characters from American folktales and legends: // Pecos Bill and Paul //Bunyan -

· **__Paul Bunyan __**- Tall tale giant of great strength. Legend says he dugs a hole that becomes Pugent Sound. He cleared trees from North Dakota to South Dakota to get land ready for settlers. He scooped out the Great Lakes to provide water for his giant blue ox.
 * Pecos Bill Tall tale hero born in Texas in the 1830's. Superhuman deeds illustrate character traits of strength, courage, humor. Said to have been raised by coyotes, rode a mountain lion, and used a rattlesnake as a whip. Legend says that Pecos Bill created the state of New Mexico by draining the Rio Grande to water his ranch.

3.13C retell the heroic deeds of characters of Greek and Roman myths - Greeks and Romans told stories known as myths. The myth uses the actions of gods and goddesses to explain why something in nature is the way it is. · Zeus (Greek name) Jupiter (Roman name)- Ruler of the Gods · Itera (Greek name) Juno (Roman name)- Protector of humans · Poseidon (Greek) Neptune (Roman)- God of the sea · Demeter (Greek) Ceres (Roman)- Goddess of growing things

3.13D identify how fictional characters created new communities: //Robinson Crusoe -// main character of Daniel Defoe's novel. He is an English sailor who is shipwrecked on a small tropical island where he builds his home. Before building his home, Crusoe had to think about the geography of the land. 3.14A identify the heroic deeds of state and national heroes: // Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett // 3.14B retell the heroic deeds of characters from American folktales and legends: // Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyon - State –Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomi de Paoll - National – Photography of U.S. Landscapes by Ansel Adams // Students select a person who has been mythologized in folklore; research the events in the real person’s life, read a tall tale version, and compare the differences and similarities; explain why they think people were motivated to add mythical components to these real-life stories __Books__: //Harcourt Horizons// textbook and ancillaries: · Greek and Roman myths: p. 210-211 · American Folk Tale Heroes: p. 204-206, 212-227 · Timelines, p. 54-55, p. 312-313 · __Ancient Greece: 40 Hands-on Activities to Experience this Wondrous Age__ by Avery Hart · __Once Upon a Starry Night: A Book of Constellations__ by Jacqueline Mitton · __Greek Myths for Young Children__ by Monica Williams
 * Preview vocabulary, use a word wall, develop picture dictionaries; differentiation for ELL
 * Complete KWL chart about myths, tall tales, and legends
 * Read about the heroic deeds of characters in Greek and Roman myths, using //Harcourt Horizons//, p. 210-211 and children’s literature titles or websites
 * Compare folklore/tall tale characters such as Pecos Bill vs. Paul Bunyan vs. Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone using a Venn diagram
 * Create timelines for historical figures; see Harcourt p. 54-55, p. 312-313
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Read and summarize a variety of myths, tall tales, and legends and the heroic deeds of their characters, identifying how they shaped the culture of a community
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//Time For Kids// Teacher’s Guide, “World Monuments” p. 57