Deucalion & Pyrrha Flood Myth Greek Mythology Study Series for Grades 8-10 ELA

What is a flood myth? Why are there similarities between flood myths in World Mythology? What is the Ancient Greek flood myth? Yet again, Zeus is angry. This time — he’s hellbent on destroying humanity. Some say Prometheus saved humans, once again, by keeping his son Deucalion from dying in a great flood that ravaged the world thousands of years ago. Mother Earth also intervenes. Go deep with this myth recorded by Apollodorus and Ovid with your middle and high school students with this creative, fun individual lesson plan!

Use this Digital Download for a Three-day English Language Arts Lesson

Using my tested-in-the-classroom resources, your kids will want to discuss the significance of flood myths, the fate of humanity, where we come from and where we are going, be judges of human error and triumph, debate, and write down essential ideas. So I have loaded this resource with tons of art and literature connections and a set of SIXTEEN questions that will get your students chatting, questioning, and wondering!

Common Core Standards: This resource aligns well with the reading literature standard: “Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.”

This Resource Includes the Following Features:

• Includes both Print and Digital Versions
• Teacher’s Three-day Lesson Calendar
• 3 Illustrated Cards
  • 1 Dictionary Entry: Deucalion and Pyrrha
  • 2 Art & Literature Connections for A Chalk Talk
• Key Characters and Places Anchor Chart
  • Orient learners by identifying the story’s key characters and geographical locations.
• 10 Questions for Reading Comprehension
• 6 Critical Thinking and Task-based Questions
• 3-Box Notetaking Template — Embed accountability into the lesson by having students annotate the text cards with notes, questions, and a summary of what they’ve read and comprehended.
• Frayer Model Vocabulary Template (with student sample)
  • Frayer models are a way to get kids to think about vocabulary visually in a four-section square —- A square for meaning, one for examples, another for non-examples, and a sketch. It is incredible to see the work they produce. A great way to decorate your classroom to showcase your kids’ vocabulary-in-text understanding.
    • Fill out the cards to contain terms, Greek and Latin roots, and challenging words (as well as contextual entries that fit the story).
• Half-Sheet 3-2-1 Exit Ticket
  • Exit tickets are a way to get data about your students’ understanding of the lesson right before the class is finished. Collect these exit tickets and quickly see what ideas your students took away from reading and discussing the myth.
• 1 Engaging Writing Activity
• 1 Further Reading List
  • Don’t disregard this further reading list if you think it is merely a bibliography. Share the list with your students or have them do projects based on the available research. Assign different sources to students and organize presentations where learning can go deeper into Ancient Greek mythology.
• Answer Keys for all student-facing documents
  • Teachers always ask for answer keys for my products, so I gave you plenty of guidance on what to expect from students in their written and oral responses.
  • Includes a helpful standards alignment chart for planning.

I created this resource with secondary students in mind. It is designed for an English Language Arts Mythology unit —

• For any myth-related unit!
• On topics including — flood myths, world mythology, cosmogony, Zeus, Prometheus, and more.
• Use this resource as a stand-alone lesson or pair it with a larger unit on Myth, The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, or Parallel Myths by J.F. Bierlein.

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