Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man | Standards-Aligned Lesson

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Five Ages of Man In-depth Greek Mythology Series for Grades 7-10 ELA

What is the Greek creation story of humankind? Some say Prometheus formed man out of clay (with Athena’s consent). Others say the first human Alcalomenes was born sui generis from the earth — the first indigenous, autochthonous person. Go deep with this myth recorded by Hesiod 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 developmental stages of humankind, 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 THIRTY-FIVE 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 (PDF) and Digital Versions (Google Apps & Easel)
Teacher’s Three-day Lesson Calendar
- Follow the pacing calendar to stay organized. Start with background knowledge, a gallery walk, and pre-reading activities, engage students in a group reading, and quiz your class with trivia-style questions.
5 Illustrated Art & Literature Connections for A Gallery Walk
- Included in this resource are five art and literature connections that include:
  - The Golden Age
  - The Silver Age
  - The Bronze Age
  - The Age of Heroes
  - The Iron Age
Key Characters and Places Anchor Chart
- Orient your learners by identifying the key characters and the geographical location of the story.
A Bank of 35 Trivia-style Questions.
- After your students engage with the myth, test their knowledge with a custom-made question set.
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 fit to 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 Creative Writing Activity
- What if you could map out your life’s story as five ages just like Hesiod and Ovid did? Encourage students to reimagine their lives as a narrative story based on the famous myth.
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 — cosmology, creation myths (cosmogonic myths), myths of origins, and Ancient Greek history and society.
Use this resource as a stand-alone lesson or, pair it with a larger unit on Myth, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The Theogony of Hesiod, Robert Graves’s Greek Myths, or Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, or Parallel Myths by J.F. Bierlein.

For resources similar to this one, see my:

✰ Stand-alone lessons on The Gigantomachy, Prometheus and The Owl of Minerva! (They’re the companion stories to this myth)

✰ and my popular Plato’s Cave lesson!