This 6 week course will use a different myth or legend each week for many ELA skills such as comprehension, vocabulary, story elements, summarizing, and more. Each week I will provide a story the day before class that students can read. The classes will each begin with a reading of the story, followed by a class discussion, and ending with skills practice. 

My style of teaching is student centered. I like to allow the students to have fun and feel safe to express their thoughts and opinions. This sometimes leads to lengthy discussions. Therefore, there will be a small amount of homework for the students to complete most weeks. 

Classes will be taught using Google Slides presentations. Each student will have a shared Google Slide that they will use to read the stories and complete the skills practice pages. The link will be sent to the Outschool messages in the classroom and parent email the day before the first class begins. This will be added to automatically every week before and after class.

At the end of the course parents will receive a grade and assessment based on the students participation during discussions and skills pages. Parents may request weekly grades, if they prefer.

The only required experience needed for this course is that students will need to be able to read and write at a fourth grade level.

Course Syllabus:
Week 1 - The Adventures of Perseus
        Skills - Recall details, conclusions, word meaning, parts of speech, creative writing, 
Week 2 - The Seasons
        Skills - Recall details, conclusions, word meaning, creative writing, inference, categorizing story 
                     events
Week 3 - Theseus and The Minotaur & Daedalus and Icarus
        Skills - Recall details, conclusions, word meaning, make judgements, character descriptions, 
                    problem solving
Week  4 - How It All Began
        Skills - Recall details, word meaning, story sequencing, write descriptions
Week  5 - Sedna, Goddess of the Sea
         Skills - Recall details, word meaning, parts of speech, 
Week 6 - Sky Woman
         Skills - Recall details, conclusions, word meaning, setting

If you enjoy this course, I offer additional courses in this series. Look for Mythology 1 and Mythology 3, where we will look at more Greek and Roman myths, plus some Norse and other legends from around the world.