Written by guest blogger: Makenna & Addison G.
Just like Hercules, we had to complete 12 labors. Working in Greek Myth teams our first labor was to make a sail together based on what Greek God or Goddess would guide us. We figured out which god we got in the god quiz and then learned so much about them. We even learned the Greek Goddess Athena has a city named after her! Artemis’s symbol is a bow and arrow and Athena’s is owls and snakes. We took and drew these symbols about our god on our sails. Check some of them out below.
After that, we did labors 2-11. We had to read different versions of myths and answer questions about them or solve puzzles. We learned about the Greek gods along the way and the themes you find in myths! I loved labor number 6. It was the one about Persephone and Hades. Deciding whether it was a nature myth or a lesson myth was no Herculean Task! It was a nature myth because it talks about Persephone eating 4 pomegranate seeds in the underworld. (That's supposed to be why there are four months of winter.) We learned about so many other myths too like King Midas, the Trojan Horse, and Pandora’s box. Myths are so much fun to read and talk about.
Every myth that we learned about had some type of cool character. Like Zeus is the king of the gods! Hades is the god of the underworld and Poseidon is the god of the water. They are all brothers. But not every myth has a good guy. In some myths there are monsters! They stop everyone from doing stuff which is why some myths are lessons. Some monsters we learned about were Sirens, Scylla, and Cybous. Some are beasts, like Cerberus
On the 12th labor, we had a project choice board to pick from and it had a bunch of project options. My group and I chose the Wanted poster about Medusa. We said she was wanted because she stole The Statue Of Liberty. Another group made a WANTED poster for Hades, while others made Newspapers and one group even made a Kahoot to test our Myth knowledge. Myths were really fun to learn about, and we both had a lot of fun writing this blog post!
