This website was created as part of an English assignment by the sophomores of Servite High School during the 2016-17 school year.
After reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton, students worked in teams to build a page for their assigned mythological character, according to the following project informataion.
After reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton, students worked in teams to build a page for their assigned mythological character, according to the following project informataion.
English 2 Mythology Weebly Project Information
Learning Objective: Students will create a web page that presents their research of the key characteristics of a god or goddess from Greek mythology.
Each student will participate in a group in order to create a webpage using weebly.com. You will have class time on Monday and Tuesday, September 26th and 27th, to work on these. Any other work will be done outside of class. Class presentations will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, September 28th and 29th.
The webpages must be in their final format by Tuesday, October 4th.
Each student is responsible for an article that will appear on the webpage; everyone in the group should contribute pictures, textboxes, avatars, movie clips, and whatever else they can find. These articles will be created using Microsoft Word, and they will be submitted to turnitin.com. I will also collect a hard copy. The articles are due on Tuesday, October 4th.
Students will be assigned a god, hero, or tale from Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. Then they will create a Weebly web page and present their information to the class. Students will work in groups of three.
Each Weebly will present the following information:
1. An article on the original myth surrounding the god/goddess. This article should consider the following:
2. An article that addresses the god/goddess as depicted in art or the culture as a whole. This article should consider the following:
3. An article that uses the theoi.com website to address other aspects of the god/goddess:
This project is worth 100 points:
50 for the finished article
50 for the group presentation to the class and the collaborative effort.
Each page is to include:
Students must include either a creator's credit or MLA citation for any images that are posted on a character’s web page.
Helpful Links:
The following sources are to be used for gathering supportive information:
Learning Objective: Students will create a web page that presents their research of the key characteristics of a god or goddess from Greek mythology.
Each student will participate in a group in order to create a webpage using weebly.com. You will have class time on Monday and Tuesday, September 26th and 27th, to work on these. Any other work will be done outside of class. Class presentations will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, September 28th and 29th.
The webpages must be in their final format by Tuesday, October 4th.
Each student is responsible for an article that will appear on the webpage; everyone in the group should contribute pictures, textboxes, avatars, movie clips, and whatever else they can find. These articles will be created using Microsoft Word, and they will be submitted to turnitin.com. I will also collect a hard copy. The articles are due on Tuesday, October 4th.
Students will be assigned a god, hero, or tale from Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. Then they will create a Weebly web page and present their information to the class. Students will work in groups of three.
Each Weebly will present the following information:
1. An article on the original myth surrounding the god/goddess. This article should consider the following:
- Type of god or hero along with some sort of power-level or intelligence-level rating
- Known associations: friends, enemies, connections to other gods, other myths
- Corresponding origin or myth
- God’s or hero’s abilities
- Qualities, attributes: strengths, weaknesses
- Relation/interactions with humanity
- Known foes of the god/goddess or hero
2. An article that addresses the god/goddess as depicted in art or the culture as a whole. This article should consider the following:
- Different representations of the god/goddess
- What characteristics of the god/goddess are highlighted by artists?
- Have conceptions of the god/goddess changed over the years?
3. An article that uses the theoi.com website to address other aspects of the god/goddess:
- Estate/symbols and attributes
- What is the god/goddess’s sphere of influence?
- Loves and enemies
- Whom does the god favor?
This project is worth 100 points:
50 for the finished article
50 for the group presentation to the class and the collaborative effort.
Each page is to include:
- An appropriate page header with an image
- A logo you have created to represent your god/goddess or hero
- Three paragraphs of original text of at least 300 words (one for each student) that explains and supports the theme
- Names of contributors next to corresponding articles
- At least one image on the page that corresponded to the story and/or the theme
- MLA citations for all written resources used.
Students must include either a creator's credit or MLA citation for any images that are posted on a character’s web page.
Helpful Links:
The following sources are to be used for gathering supportive information:
- Servite Databases (Use Britannica Image Quest. It includes MLA citations.)
- Servite Library's MLA and Works Cited Page for help making citations for the book.
- Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
Fun Tools to try:
Make a superhero avatar for your mythology character. (You may have to download on a non-Servite computer.)
Make a Voki (talking avatar) of your mythological character.
Make a logo for your mythological character
Make a superhero avatar for your mythology character. (You may have to download on a non-Servite computer.)
Make a Voki (talking avatar) of your mythological character.
Make a logo for your mythological character