This website was created as part of an English assignment by the sophomores of Servite High School during the 2015/16 school year.
After reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton over the summer, students worked in teams to build a page for their assigned mythological character that included the following information:
After reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton over the summer, students worked in teams to build a page for their assigned mythological character that included the following information:
- Type of god along with some sort of power-level rating and intelligence-level rating
- Known associations: friends, enemies, connections to other gods, other myths
- Relation with humanity
- Corresponding origin or myth
- God's abilities
- Known foes of god
- Image(s)
- Qualities, attributes: strengths, weaknesses
- Current cultural connections: whom did the god remind the student of, demonstrating with specific examples. Example could be choosing a situation in the world that the god might be involved in (or even to blame for!) and.or movie connections, comic books, etc.
- Creativity: Students could create videos of their entity to illustrate how the god might interact with the modern world, or create a photo montage, or take the legend further as many of the Greeks and Romans did with a god already in existence, linking god’s stories, perhaps, or inventing new endings to god's story.
Regarding images:
Students were required to include either a creator's credit or MLA citation for any images that were posted on a character's web page.
Students were required to include either a creator's credit or MLA citation for any images that were posted on a character's web page.
Helpful Links:
The following links were to be used for information gathering:
The following links were to be used for information gathering:
- Servite Databases (Use Britannica Image Quest. It includes MLA citations.)
- Windows to the Universe
- Theoi Greek 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