Unit Overview:
This curriculum unit addresses myths in Western cultures and in other cultures around the world. The lessons in this unit will give students the opportunity to critically think about how and why myths were first created, and to create their own myths.
Lesson Overviews:
Students explore myths that explain science and nature, and create graphic representations of them.
Students read a Native American myth, analyze it, and relate it to other myths and their own experience.
After reading myths that explain natural phenomena, students identify elements of the literary form and create their own science-based myth.
