Happy Thursday!
Today we will start a mini project with the following goals:

• Work on our summary and writing skills.
• Develop scripting and layout skills.

So here's what you will be doing:  Working independently you will read and summarize a Greek Myth and then turn it into a comic strip using one of these sites: www.toondoo.com, www.makebeliefscomix.com, ReadWriteThink.  If you are good with PowerPoint you can create a comic with this program using individual slides as panes.  As you create your comic think of how this Myth can be told with only images and conversation, there should be very little narrative (for example: to indicate the passing of time or changing of season or location) 


In addition to turning the myth into a comic strip you will write a forward for an anthology of Greek Myth. 

What's a forward?  It's a short piece that introduces and provides reflections, some of them personal, for the content of what you will be reading. 

Follow the steps below:

1. Using your knowledge from the article that you read about folklore, and what we have seen and discussed in the video write a Forward for a collection of Greek Myths that describes the role of Greek Myths in society.  You can reference specific examples of Gods, events and heroes.
2. Choose one of the myths below and tell Mrs. Weklar which one you have chosen.                        - Orpheus     - The Midas Touch      - Icarus        - The Minotaur      - Zeus defeats the Titans      - The Labors of Hercules (choose one)     - Demeter & Persephone      - Andromeda & Perseus  - Prometheus      - Pandora       - The River Styx & the King of Corinth (Please use both readings for your comic!)
3. Read and summarize the Myth using the document below:
4. Create your comic - this needs be a creative telling!

Happy Monday!
So, I only received three responses from Friday's assignment, and that is an important reading.  So today, we will do the following:

1. Complete the assignment from Friday.

2. Find a Greek Myth, read it, and complete the summary form below.  This will be used tomorrow!

Happy Friday!  This work is due today and will be graded!

Today you will read Scholastic articles about Folklore:

   - What is Folklore? and Finding Folklore (Click to follow the link) 

As you read them please complete the questions in the word document and submit it via the Assignment Submission Page.


THIS IS THE FILE WITH the QUESTIONS: Click the yellow words to open and download the file

SAVING & SUBMITTING a FILE:       
1. Please go to FILE and select SAVE AS
2. Save this file in your Documents folder with the name:
[Your name] Finding Folklore
3. When you are done please submit the file through the Assignment Submission Page on the website.  (Follow the blue button in the post)

After our work with Flood Myths over the last 2 days, today we will work on our skill of summarizing.  First, with a Spanish legend about the moon, which was turned into a song by the Spanish pop group, Mecano; then we will look at the Chinese creation myth of Pan Gu & Nu Wa,